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Dean Scoville

Associate Editor of Police Magazine and a retired patrol supervisor and investigator with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Sgt. Dean Scoville has received multiple awards for government service.

Blog - Patrol - August 2009

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A Crappy Job of Parenting

August 31, 2009

I have had parents tell me to discipline their kids, yell at them, take them to jail, and lock them up. One asked to borrow my service revolver.

Comments(1)

Tags: Community Policing, Juvenile Crime

Your Role in Homeland Security

August 25, 2009

The arrests of Oklahoma Bomber Tim McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph were affected by street cops, and more than one routine check at a Canadian border checkpoint has averted more stateside terrorist attacks.

Tags: Counter-Terrorism Initiatives, Domestic Terrorists, Islamist Terrorists, Smuggling

Stacking the Jury

August 14, 2009

Each prospective juror has to answer seven standard questions: name, marital status, etc. The only two that strike me as concerns for exclusion are type of work and whether or not we’ve been a victim of a crime.

Comments(2)

Tags: Courtroom Outbursts

PC Collateral Damage

August 6, 2009

Much has been made of the educational opportunities afforded by the Gates incident. But it really shows, once again, just how conditioned we have become to tolerating acts of idiocy

Comments(3)

Tags: Cambridge PD, Henry Louis Gates Arrest, President Obama

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