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July 2007 - Columns: Editorial
Now, like most of the public, I had been led to believe that firefighters and cops hold each other in contempt. But I remember very vividly attending a firefighter's funeral. When we drove away from the service on our way to the cemetery, the streets were lined with firefighters saluting their brother in arms. And there were cops on those sidewalks, too. Also offering a salute to a fellow public servant and first responder.
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David Griffith
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June 2007 - Features
It was an unusual opportunity. Inside a small banquet room at a suburban Chicago hotel, the makers of some of the leading law enforcement use-of-force simulators had set up their products and were running scenarios at the recent International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association conference.
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David Griffith
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June 2007 - Columns: Editorial
As much as the Internet is savaged as a venue for pornography, gambling, and cybercrime, the World Wide Web is by far the most efficient information gathering tool ever invented. Historians a century from now may consider it more important in the expansion of human knowledge than the development of the movable type press.
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David Griffith
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May 2007 - Features
TREXPO is both a trade show and an educational conference for law enforcement officers. And this year’s TREXPO West held recently in Long Beach, Calif., offered excellent training opportunities for both SWAT and patrol officers.
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David Griffith
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May 2007 - Features
All you have to do is listen to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman for a few minutes, and you will quickly realize the great love that he has for America and for the men and women who secure the liberty of Americans.
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David Griffith
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May 2007 - Features
Perhaps the greatest change in law enforcement technology over the last decade has been the rapid proliferation of computers into patrol cars. The average patrol officer can now be dispatched to a call, write up reports, and receive critical alerts on his or her car computer.
Here’s a look at some of the products that may be mounted in your car this year.
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David Griffith
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May 2007 - Columns: Editorial
The great British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli famously said, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” It’s a funny line, one that was later quoted by Mark Twain. But the truth is that statistics don’t lie. They are just subject to interpretation, and their truth is in the eye of the beholder.
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David Griffith
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April 2007 - Features
There’s one question that all prospective students ask before they sign up for a program that will allow them to complete their college degree online: Is this really any good?
Scott Harr has a clear answer: “For some students, it’s better.”
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David Griffith
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April 2007 - Columns: Editorial
You may not recognize the names of Yevgeniy “Eugene” Marshalik, 19, and Nicholas Todd Pekearo, 28. But you should. These young men are true heroes who upheld the greatest traditions of the New York Police Department, and they weren’t even “real cops.”
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David Griffith
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March 2007 - Columns: Editorial
It’s a tent pole of the liberal anti-gun activists that the majority of American police officers are in favor of gun control as a means of reducing violent crime. Yeah, well our latest survey on page 14 collapses that tent.
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David Griffith
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January 2007 - Features
There was a time not too long ago when the only non-lethal weapon available to American law enforcement officers was a baton. Here is our guide to less-lethal patrol weapons now on the market.
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David Griffith
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December 2006 - Columns: Editorial
One of the worst things about American society is that we tend to equate wealth with intelligence. Anybody with half a brain can tell you it’s not true. I mean look at Paris Hilton. Heck, look at any Hilton since Conrad, the man who built the family’s wealth.
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David Griffith
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January 2006 - Columns: Editorial
Anyone who has ever sat in the editor’s chair of a magazine will tell you that a magazine is a living organism.
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David Griffith
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October 2005 - Features
Conference attendance was up significantly at this year’s TREXPO East, held Aug. 29 through Aug. 31 in Chantilly, Va. And with good reason. The conference program offered an excellent balance of hands-on defensive tactics training, anti-terrorism classes, and patrol and SWAT tactics courses.
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David Griffith
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October 2005 - Features
At each TREXPO trade show, the staff of Police fans out into the aisles in search of the most innovative police products on display at the show. Some shows are better than others.
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David Griffith
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October 2005 - Features
This year’s TREXPO East, held Aug. 29 through Sept. 1 in Chantilly, Va., was an unusual kind of law enforcement trade show. It actually had star power. It had Sgt. Major Billy Waugh of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
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David Griffith
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September 2005 - Cover Story
A process server has dropped a summons and complaint notice in your hand. You’re being sued for something that the plaintiff claims you did on the job.
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David Griffith
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April 2005 - Features
You’d have to look hard to find a trade show with more of a split personality than the Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) show. In recent years, it has developed into two shows, really. One is a sporting show that features such things as duck hunting shotguns and new deer skinning tools and the other is a military and law enforcement gear show that includes grenade launchers and fully automatic weapons
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David Griffith
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