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Articles & Features
Published articles, industry features, and thought leadership pieces on evidence-based communication, investigative interviewing, and organizational practice.
Published articles, industry features, and thought leadership pieces on evidence-based communication, investigative interviewing, and organizational practice.
Joe's writing has appeared in Police1, the IADLEST Standards & Training Director Magazine, the ILEETA Journal, and Law Enforcement Today, reaching tens of thousands of practitioners across North America.
Why effective suspect interviews depend less on scripted techniques and more on adaptable, field-proven strategies officers can use when conversations turn unpredictable.
Read Article ↗When things go wrong in law enforcement, whether during use-of-force incidents, failed investigations, or community interactions, after-action reviews often highlight training gaps, policy failures, or poor judgment. Beneath these visible breakdowns often lies a quieter, pervasive issue: communication.
Read Article ↗Most instructors would agree that communication is critical. But in many law enforcement training programs, it's still treated as a standalone skill, boxed into a few classroom hours and then forgotten in the field. If we want to improve safety, reduce complaints, and elevate performance, we must rethink how we teach communication, not as a soft skill but as a tactical one.
Read Article ↗Communication is more than a necessary skill in law enforcement; it is a survival tool. Whether conducting a traffic stop, interviewing a victim, witness, or suspect, or managing a volatile confrontation, an officer's ability to connect, interpret, and respond effectively is critical for achieving safe and successful outcomes.
Read Article ↗Polygraph exams, or lie detector tests, are key components of the pre-employment screening process for many law enforcement agencies. These tests measure physiological reactions to questions, aiming to gauge the examinee's truthfulness. In the high-stakes environment of law enforcement, it is vital to ensure that candidates possess the necessary skills and uphold the integrity and ethical standards required for the job.
Read Article ↗In-depth pieces from ASC on investigative interviewing, evidence-based methodology, and the practice of strategic communication.
A practical guide to Title IX interviewing under the current regulatory landscape, interview-relevant requirements, common errors that create litigation exposure, trauma-informed practice, and the documentation standards that separate defensible findings from reversal on appeal.
Read Article →An evidence-based guide to interviewing trauma-exposed victims, neurobiology of memory under stress, environmental setup, language choices, pacing, signs of dysregulation, grounding techniques, and when to pause. Drawn from Hopper's research framework and the cognitive-interview tradition.
Read Article →Why most workplace investigations fail at the interview, leading questions, contamination, confirmation bias, the rapport vs interrogation framing, and the documentation standards that hold up at EEOC, in arbitration, and at trial under Faragher, Ellerth, and Vance.
Read Article →Drawn from 1,500-plus warrants and court orders authored over a 24-year investigative career, affidavit structure, common suppression vulnerabilities, digital-evidence considerations after Carpenter, and the foundational case law (Katz, Gates, Franks, Kentucky v. King) that shapes every paragraph.
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