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November 2008 - Product Patrol
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MacWet
MacWet gloves perform in all types of weather, while still providing comfort, sensitivity, and protection from the elements. Designed to fit like a second skin and available in 12 different sizes, MacWet gloves offer a high level of touch sensitivity. This sensitivity allows you to use even the most intricate buttons on optical equipment and phones or radios.
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Features
Out of all the absurd stuff that ’60’s grammar school students were taught to expect in the future, the robot in every home is the most likely to come true. Today, there are robots that will vacuum and mop your floors. More importantly, there are robots that can do dangerous jobs that people used to have to do. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the PackBot has become a vital tool for IED clearance. Here in the homeland, similar robots are on duty with bomb squads nationwide.
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David Griffith
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Features
It’s easy to think of TREXPO as primarily a trade show. After all, some of the most interesting news to come out of each TREXPO usually involves some intriguing weapon or training aid. But the training and instruction that officers receive during the conference program at TREXPO can pay real dividends in the field. TREXPO West 2006 at the Los Angeles Convention Center was no exception.
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David Griffith
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Features
It would have been difficult to find two TREXPO West keynote speakers who complemented each other in their message better than Kelly McCann and Col. Danny McKnight.
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David Griffith
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Features
I’ve seen a lot of different cop cars over the years. When I was a kid, big V-8 black-and-white sedans would prowl the highways of my native North Carolina, hunting down speeders. Back in the early ’80s when I worked on small-town newspapers, some of the agencies that I covered drove “K” cars. They were trying to save gas, and the government was trying to keep Chrysler in business.
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David Griffith
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Features
Much is known about many of law enforcement’s special teams: dive team, air watch, SWAT. In contrast, the hazardous devices team of your department (if you have one) is one that has intentionally kept itself out of the limelight, for good reason.
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Shawn Hughes
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Features
Old West sheriffs and marshals often carried a Colt .45 called the Peacemaker. But that .45 had the limitations of all handguns, so savvy Western lawmen also kept a short-barreled repeating rifle like a Winchester in their saddle bags. They knew that in a real gunfight, a carbine is the real “peace maker.”
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R.K. Campbell
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Columns: Editorial
If you are reading this column, odds are that you are a police officer or deputy sheriff who has at one time in your career worked traffic. That means that you have likely come up against people who invoked special privilege when you tried to write them a ticket.
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David Griffith
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Columns: In My Sights
I love being in shape. Running an eight-minute mile, benching 300, riding a mountain bike on rugged trails, playing a rousing game of three-on-three, are all things I would love to be doing. But I can’t do any of them today.
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Dave Smith
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Reviews: Arsenal
With refinements like a radical dehorning, a DAK double-action-only trigger, tritium front night sight and chambering for the potent .40 S&W cartridge, the SIG 229 SAS possesses everything that an officer or agent could need. And it should. This newest member of the SIG is designed for professionals who carry their guns all day, every day.
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Mike Detty
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Departments: Shots Fired
During the last hour of his shift, soon-to-be-retired Lt. Roger Sanders of the Des Moines Police Department was headed back to the station when the call of a fight at Walnut and 8th went out.
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Dean Scoville
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Departments: The Winning Edge
As a law enforcement officer, what are the odds that the next person you stop has a concealed weapon within easy reach? Of course the answer depends on the circumstances, but nobody would argue that officers face the potential for harm with every single civilian encounter. The problem is that almost anything on or near a person of interest could conceal a covert weapon.
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Bart Bjorkman
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Departments: Blades & Tools
Columbia River Knife & Tool (CRKT) has built its reputation and name on its high-quality, affordable knives. Not only are CRKT’s knives affordable, but the company has been a leader in forging collaborations with well-known custom knife makers.
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Scott Smith
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Departments: Point of Law
One of the “firmly established exceptions” to the warrant requirement for searches and seizures is the “consent exception.” If you have the voluntary consent of the suspect to enter a residence or to conduct a search, a resulting seizure of evidence will generally be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment (Schneckloth v. Bustamonte).
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Devallis Rutledge
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Departments: A Closer Look
There is life after law enforcement. And in New York state, it sits within 17,000 lush acres of the Oneida Indian Nation. Here is where officers with decades of experience, including those who have retired from police work at other agencies throughout the Empire State, can begin a “second career” in the profession they love.
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Bryn Bailer
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Web Only: Leadership 101
“The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses.” ---Philip Caldwell
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Mark G. Stainbrook
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Web Only: Duty Tips
Although digital cameras are certainly high-tech and have a lot more power and control than their film predecessors, they are still only as good as the officer holding them.
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Dan Pasquale
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