Dave Smith
Officer (Ret.)
Police Magazine
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Tragic events often occur when even well-trained folks do something over and over. It isn’t the rookie that has bad habits, takes shortcuts, or ignores danger signals.
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Veteran officers and even the brass should reinforce your agency’s values and stress officer safety while achieving the mission. Culture must be protected to remain effective and healthy, or it will begin to erode in many of its facets.
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If you are lucky, you will get older on the job, and you’ll have to learn how to compensate for declining skills.
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Is the United States finally turning back to support law and order and the men and women who enforce it.
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In the 1980s and 1990s crime was out of control in this country and our leaders did something about it. Now they have abandoned that mission and crime has come back.
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The untruths that have been spread about law enforcement share some of the characteristics of totalitarian propaganda.
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It would seem leaders would desperately seek to heal the rifts, reinforce our faith in our systems of government, and tone down the rhetoric
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Take a hint from our pilot friends. In an emergency, you need to be able to access all of your equipment without looking.
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Turning your police experience into instruction for other officers requires you to learn how to teach.
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It’s critical that everyone in your agency knows what to do after an officer-involved shooting.
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