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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyAugust 8, 2018

The Real Reasons for Chicago's Deadly Crime Wave

A question for the mayor: If it really is unacceptable, why do you continue to accept it?

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyApril 13, 2018

Proposed California Use-of-Force Bill Won't Make Anyone Safer

If a police officer’s use of deadly force is deemed to be unnecessary to them and to people who share their beliefs, that officer can expect to be prosecuted and, if not imprisoned, run through a years-long ordeal that will ruin him physically, emotionally, and financially. And this, they promise, will protect the community.

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyMarch 27, 2018

Dunphy: Stephon Clark Shooting was Justified

Both officers peek around the corner, at which time one of them shouts, “Show me your hands!” followed immediately by “Gun, gun, gun!” Both officers open fire, killing Clark.

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyJanuary 29, 2018

LAPD Chief to Retire: Get Ready for Backstabbing and Bloodletting

Most qualified? That’s so 20th century. It won’t be a factor in naming the next chief. The eventual selectee will have triumphed through some combination of the right ethnic and gender profile and an ability to survive the knife fight about to begin. What fun it will be to watch.

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyApril 5, 2016

Demoralized Cops Equal Higher Crime

What do we do? We drive on, for we are not police officers in an ideal world. We are police officers in Los Angeles in the year 2016, and we know there is little to be gained and much to be lost if we get out of our car and engage these young men.

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyApril 29, 2015

The One Key Lesson Baltimore Cops Didn’t Learn from the L.A. Riots

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave instructions to police that protesters be given “space” to exercise their right to free speech. But in doing so, she admitted, “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”

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Inside the Badge by Jack DunphyDecember 23, 2014

Dunphy: Eric Garner Sealed His Own Fate

I have nothing but admiration for Dr. Krauthammer and Messrs. Will and Yoo, but I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb here in speculating that none of these men, for all their accomplishments, has ever had the experience of trying to arrest a 350-lb. man who has made it clear he does not wish to be arrested. I have, and I offer here a few lessons gleaned from that experience.

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