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David Griffith

Editor

David Griffith has been editor of POLICE Magazine since December 2001. He brings more than 40 years of experience on magazines and newspapers to POLICE. A Maggie award-winning journalist, his byline has appeared on hundreds of articles in POLICE and other national magazines.

Articlesby David GriffithNovember 12, 2019

Innocent Armor: Everyday Armor

Innocent Armor LLC is making bullet-resistant clothing for law enforcement officers and for some civilian customers worried about mass shootings.

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Articlesby David GriffithNovember 6, 2019

Pieces of My Mind

Thoughts on some of the law enforcement news that came across our computers in October.

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Articlesby David GriffithOctober 18, 2019

POLICE Survey: Law Enforcement and Technology

A dizzying variety of hardware and software tools are now available for police operations. But are they actually being used? We sent a special survey out to law enforcement officers to find out. Here's what we discovered.

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Articlesby David GriffithOctober 17, 2019

Shots Fired: Anaheim, California 09/25/2009

A traffic stop went bad. The suspect was shot and killed. An officer's back was broken. And the lawsuit and legal maneuvers lasted eight years.

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Articlesby David GriffithOctober 17, 2019

Q&A: Axon's Rick Smith on the End of Deadly Force

Axon CEO Rick Smith is known for thinking and speaking about the next generation of technology. Now he is predicting that less-lethal weapons can almost eliminate fatal officer-involved shootings by 2030.

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Articlesby David GriffithOctober 7, 2019

A 2030 Vision

Can less-lethal weapons advance to the point that police can use them instead of deadly force? Axon's Rick Smith believes they can.

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Newsby David GriffithSeptember 27, 2019

Texas Officers who Suffer Off-Duty Heart Attacks and Their Survivors Now Eligible for Benefits

As of Sept. 1, working law enforcement officers in Texas who have heart attacks off duty or on duty will be considered to have had their medical events in the line of duty and be eligible for state and federal line-of-duty benefits.

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Articlesby David GriffithSeptember 13, 2019

CSI: Helping Authors Keep It Real

The mission of the Writers' Police Academy is to teach authors about how actual law enforcement officers and crime scene specialists investigate crimes.

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Articlesby David GriffithSeptember 11, 2019

Technology Preview: Detecting Weapons with Radio Waves

First Responder Technologies is working on a system that uses WiFi to improve the security of public buildings.

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Articlesby David GriffithSeptember 3, 2019

Libeling Law Enforcement Officers

Social justice warriors and now presidential candidates perpetuate lies about law enforcement, and it is doing a lot of damage to the profession and the nation.

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