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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
Special Units
9/11 Heroes Contracting Blood Cancer
An outbreak of what appears to be a blood cancer cluster has afflicted a number of 9/11 responders, including law enforcement officers, construction workers, and volunteers.
May 31, 2007
Patrol
Police Surprise Missouri Family after Burglar Steals Kids' "Chore Jar" Money
When Des Peres Department of Public Safety Detective Trent Koppel asked members of the department to help fill two new tip jars to replace those stolen from two local kids, every single member of the department made a contribution.
October 19, 2018
Patrol
Bearing Bad News
Make the notification as soon as possible following the incident. Making a personal notification is always a race against time, and it's far better that they hear it from you, in person, rather than finding out on the news or through the grapevine that their loved one has died.
September 6, 2010
Patrol
News Briefs
The 17 states with favorable right-toÂ-Carry gun laws had a 20.7 percent total lower violent crime rate than the other states. A new group has been formed to address the needs of police superÂvisors, from the rank of sergeant through chief. Police officers north of the border have their hands full as the Hells Angels of Quebec engage in a bloody year-long struggle.
January 31, 1996
Careers
NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad
In March, the NYPD revamped its Highway Division Accident Investigation Squad, beefing up staffing, adding higher-tech tools, and broadening its mission to respond to serious, as well as fatal, crashes. The unit also got a new name: the Collision Investigation Squad.
June 25, 2013
Technology
Police Sue Newspaper Over Racial Profiling Allegations
In response to a series of newspaper articles alleging racial profiling, the Toronto Police Association, plans to sue the Toronto Star for about $2 billion.
November 12, 2002
Patrol
LE Vendors Create Prank News for April Fools
For April Fools' Day this year, some manufacturers of law enforcement gear came up with clever ways to prank customers, all in good fun.
April 1, 2016
Training
Police advisor co-authors new survival book
July 31, 2000
Patrol
LAPD Pays Newspaper Delivery Women $40,000
The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $40,000 to two newspaper delivery women whose truck was riddled with LAPD bullets during the manhunt for fugitive ex-cop Chris Dorner.
March 14, 2013
Patrol
Video: News Crew Defends W.Va. Officer
A news crew riding with Beckley (W.Va.) Police Cpl. C.D. McCormick defended the officer to an irate motorist after the officer pulled over the driver for talking on his cell phone.
July 11, 2013
Command
Newsweek: Apprenticeships Would Improve Police Training
Unlike the shorter police academies, future officers serve as apprentices or cadets for a two-to-three-year program involving comprehensive learning through years of field experience and classroom instruction.
February 15, 2023
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