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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 GriffithSeptember 17, 2009

The Fallacy of the Nonviolent Offender

About 33 percent of so-called "nonviolent" offenders have a history of arrests for violent crimes.

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Articlesby David GriffithAugust 31, 2009

TASER X3: Three in One

The three-shot TASER pistol marketed as the X3 has been one of the company's most secret projects. It's also been a product that cops have been requesting for years.

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Articlesby David GriffithAugust 31, 2009

Rethinking D.A.R.E.

For some of the kids in the D.A.R.E. program, the D.A.R.E. officer is the only adult that they can really talk to.

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Inside the Badge by David GriffithAugust 27, 2009

Money Laundering for Morons

Collectibles are fragile and a very poor investment. That's why I was stunned earlier this week when I read that a methamphetamine ring in Colorado used comic books for money laundering.

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Inside the Badge by David GriffithAugust 19, 2009

TREXPO Panel: Active Shooter Response Spurs Lively Discussion

"Active shooters are a tactical-officer problem not a tactical-team problem," PoliceMag.com SWAT columnist Robert O’Brien said opening the discussion.

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Articlesby David GriffithJuly 31, 2009

Military Standard

For more than 15 years now, the company has been making rugged notebook systems designed for use on patrol by law enforcement officers. Getac's latest law enforcement model is the upgraded V100 rugged convertible notebook.

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Articlesby David GriffithJuly 31, 2009

Terrorism with a Small "t"

Terrorists walk among us. They don't all have long beards and turbans and live in caves in Afghanistan.

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Articlesby David GriffithJuly 23, 2009

30 Things You Need to Know About Body Armor

Once a curious novelty, today body armor is one of those things that a lot of officers take for granted. It's something that few officers give a second thought. But there's a lot that the average officer should know about his or her concealed "life preserver."

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Inside the Badge by David GriffithJuly 10, 2009

Obama Administration Orders Sheriffs to Coddle Illegal Aliens

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the sheriff of Davidson County, Tenn. (Nashville) has been directed to release illegal aliens detained on “minor” charges on their own recognizance. This is a repeat of the disastrous “catch and release” immigration enforcement concept where

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Inside the Badge by David GriffithJuly 2, 2009

Across the Great Generational Divide

There are some things that you begin to realize as you gray. For example, the youngsters that you work with no longer “get” your cultural references. And you start to feel like Grandpa Simpson droning on about things that make no sense to the people around you.

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