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Training
Odd Objects
You can develop a great deal of strength in the weight room, but traditional barbell lifts won't help you to perform a real-life tasks on the job like sandbag lifts and rope pulls will. I recommend adding odd object lifting to your exercise regimen to increase functional strength and add variety to your program. Read our feature, "Odd Object Training," for the full story.
January 4, 2012
Patrol
Playing the Odds
Sometimes it takes a smack in the face or some other bad event to remind us of the great risks we take and make us appreciate surviving.
June 30, 2008
Training
Odd Object Training
With odd object training, non-traditional forms of resistance such as sandbags, ropes, water, rocks, and tires allow you to trade in "weight room" strength for functional strength.
January 3, 2012
Weapons
Improving the Odds
For some reason, most officers have a vision of a gunfight as being one shooter against another. The reality of such incidents is much different and even deadlier. An alarming number of police gunfights involve more than one bad guy against a single cop.
August 31, 2002
Patrol
DC Chief, Police Union At Odds Over Breastfeeding Policy
The Fraternal Order of Police claims the agency isn't adequately accommodating its breastfeeding officers with inadequate lactating rooms, binding body armor, and forcing them into patrol duties where they have difficulty pumping milk.
June 27, 2011
Patrol
Alone Against All Odds
Cops are accustomed to answering calls for help, and generally think no less of those who ask. But officers themselves are often hesitant to ask for help, and that can be very impractical and even costly.
June 23, 2014
Patrol
Charlotte Chief, School Board Members At Odds Over Metal Detectors in Schools
School Board members Ericka Ellis-Stewart and Carol Sawyer said the plan could make schools feel like detention centers.
April 6, 2018
Patrol
Dad Caught Speeding at 120MPH With Toddler
Deputies say Leonardo Diaz-Lua was clocked doing 120 mph while driving south on I-5 near Missions Street. Traffic Safety Team Deputy Ethan Griffith was on patrol in the area around noon Thursday when the racing occurred, according to the sheriff's office.
December 16, 2010
Training
Police Solve Toddler’s 1980 Murder
Police have gotten confessions from two people charged with killing a two-year-old boy in Hialeah, Fla., 25 years ago: his mother and stepfather.
August 18, 2005
Patrol
FBI Report Indicates 17 Percent Rise in Hate Crimes
According to a recently released report from the FBI, reported hate crimes in the United States rose 17% over last year, with about 5,000 of the hate crimes reported categorized as crimes against persons, such as intimidation or assault.
November 19, 2018
Patrol
Hate Crimes Rose to Highest Level in 12 Years, FBI Says
Religious groups have been increasingly targeted, as officials saw a nearly 14 percent increase in attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions, the report found.
November 17, 2020
Patrol
18 Men Convicted of Drug Crimes Tied to Reportedly Corrupt Chicago Officer Cleared
A judge has cleared 18 more men of drug convictions that resulted from investigations by a reportedly corrupt sergeant with the Chicago Police Department.
September 26, 2018
Patrol
Senate Passes Bill to Pay LODD Benefits to Officers who Die of COVID-19
The measure removes the requirement that families of officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians do not have to prove that the first responder was infected while on the job as long as the person was diagnosed with COVID-45 within 45 days of his or her last shift.
May 15, 2020
Patrol
Most Officer COVID-19 Deaths to be Eligible for Federal LODD Benefits
The President of the National Fraternal Order of Police—Patrick Yoes—today issued a statement lauding the determination that law enforcement and other public safety officers who file a death benefit claim through the Public Safety Officers’ Benefit (PSOB) program for a COVID-19 related death will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases.
April 10, 2020
Patrol
10 States Export Half of Guns Used In Out-of-State Crimes, Mayors Say
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other mayors are mounting a campaign against states they say have "lax gun laws" and are attempting to push for additional gun-control legislation in those states.
September 26, 2010
Editor's Notes
Police Links: Creepy Crimes
Ah, yes. In the tenth month of the year the days are getting shorter and the creeps seem to be getting creepier. It wouldn't be October without weird Halloween-related crime stories.
October 30, 2012
Point of Law
Editorial: Redefining “Safety”
The SAFE-T Act, set to take effect in Illinois on New Year’s Day, will strain police budgets and endanger officers and the public.
October 14, 2022
Patrol
Austin Chief Briefs Media on LODD
Austin (Texas) Police Chief Art Acevedo briefs the media about the fatal shooting of Officer Jamie Padron early Friday at a Walmart. Read the full story here.
April 5, 2012
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