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October 2008 - Product Patrol
Flannel Lined Pant
5.11 Tactical
A “winterized” version of the authentic 5.11 Tactical Pant is now available. It’s constructed of tough, 8.5-ounce, 100-percent cotton canvas lined with soft, preshrunk cotton flannel in red plaid. Like the authentic 5.11 Tactical Pant, the Flannel Lined version has the same popular seven-pocket design.
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Features
On Nov. 23, 2006, the day after Thanksgiving, Officer Chris Walker of the Jonesboro (Ark.) Police Department confronted a rape suspect hiding in a dark attic. The suspect fired from a prone position directly at Walker, who was able to return fire.
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Melanie Hamilton
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Features
A few months ago, I started working as an investigator. I had some 20 years of experience on patrol. But the move was still a challenge, as I was basically thrown into a sink-or-swim situation.
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Dean Scoville
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Features
When Bruce Siddle left the ranks of the Monroe County (Ill.) Sheriff’s Department after seven years to concentrate on training officers at the St. Louis Police Academy, he couldn’t have envisioned where it would take him.
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David Griffith
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Features
As the responding patrol officer it’s your job to properly process the crime scene, including locating, printing, collecting, and documenting all fingerprint evidence on scene—not necessarily an easy task.
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David Spraggs
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Columns: Editorial
Last week I was in the Orlando area for the SHOT Show. After attending a dinner with manufacturing reps, I went back to the hotel and turned on the TV. The lead story was a report about an officer-involved shooting in Daytona Beach Shores.
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David Griffith
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Columns: In My Sights
The other day I was on a wonderful modern indoor shooting range at a local PD. It is so convenient and comfortable, and it’s equipped with the latest lighting options to recreate the various light conditions an officer may face on the street. As I was talking to the rangemaster, though, all I was thinking about was all the outdoor ranges I had qualified on, from the heat of Tucson to the frozen ground and howling winds of 21 degrees at Chinle on the Navajo Reservation.
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Dave Smith
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Departments: Blades & Tools
Knives for duty use have gone through some serious changes in the past two decades, not the least of which has been the development of folders that rival fixed-blade knives for toughness and open with assisted-opening systems that rival auto-openers for ease of use.
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Scott Smith
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Departments: First Look
The first thing you need to know about First Choice Armor’s new Multi-Use Shield Technology (M.U.S.T.) is that it was designed by shield operators for shield operators.
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David Griffith
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Departments: Patrol Response To...
The fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population is the cohort of people who are more than 85 years old. The aging of America will present many challenges to law enforcement, including how to protect people who may no longer have the physical or mental capacity to protect themselves and how to investigate cases of elder abuse.
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Joseph Petrocelli
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Departments: Shots Fired
The Miami suburb of Coral Gables, Fla., is home to a confluence of lifestyles, where the affluent and the amoral intersect and are often one and the same. Its palatial houses and palm tree-lined streets are home to doctors, lawyers, business people, and narcotics traffickers.
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Dean Scoville
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Departments: The Winning Edge
One of the most dangerous encounters a law enforcement officer can face is a mass attack. Two prime examples of a mass attack are an officer responding to a bar fight and a corrections officer trying to break up a fight in the prison yard.
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Al Abidin
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Departments: Point of Law
The requirement of the Fourth Amendment is that all searches be “reasonable.” The Supreme Court has ruled that warrantless searches are presumed to be unreasonable, “subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions.” (Katz v. U.S.) That means that unless you are searching under authority of a judicial warrant, you are presumed to be violating the Fourth Amendment. To rebut this presumption and avoid both civil liability and suppression of evidence,
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Devallis Rutledge
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