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Top 10 Law Enforcement Stories of 2009

Which stories will make the PoliceMag.com list of the top LE stories of 2009? You can bet you'll find President Obama on this list.

Image via banspy (Flickr.com).

Let Them Know You Care

Today, a new generation of Americans are fighting for our freedom overseas, but there are no great Christmas songs being written and sung for them. Like the Vietnam generation before them, they are largely forgotten by a public too concerned about domestic issues to care about them, and they are demonized in popular culture as "kill crazy" murderers.

The Fort Hood Shooter Did Not Act Alone

Sudden Jihad Syndrome has always been there and it will be there for years to come. It is at the heart of Islam and its true followers and it is what I believe drives Hasan and many more like him around the world to explode, behead, destroy and kill many, including other Muslims.

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.

Batman first appeared in Detective Comics books published in the late 1930s. DC Comics continues to publish graphic novels with the character. Photo via geminicollisionworks (Flickr.com).

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.

PoliceMag.com SWAT columnist Robert O'Brien leads a panel discussion about responding to active shooters at TREXPO East in Chantilly, Va.

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

President Obama speaks to a crowd in Austin in February 2008 on his way to the presidency. Photo via jmtimages (Flickr.com).

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.

Drunk is No Excuse for This

Here’s the tale of the tape: Anthony Abbate, 38, is six-foot, three-inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. The woman he pummeled, Karolina Obrycka, 26, is a foot shorter and weighs 125 pounds.

There Should Be a Special Punishment for This Crime

If Sweeten really did file a false police report saying that she and her daughter were kidnapped by two black men, then she victimized by my estimation at least six percent of the American population, every black male.

I Hope This Guy Isn’t a Crisis Negotiator

It seems the head of Atlanta’s police union Sgt. Scott Kreher told the city council in an open meeting that he would like to beat Mayor Shirley Franklin “in the head with a baseball bat” when he thinks about problems disabled officers have getting workers’ compensation claims approved.

Washington Turns on the Money Tap

The economic stimulus package pumps nearly $4 billion into state, local, and tribal law enforcement. But is that a good thing?

TASER Showcases Shockwave Area Denial System at Urban Shield

The Shockwave ADS looks a lot like a claymore mine from a science fiction movie, but it’s really just an array of TASER cartridges. So it’s non-lethal. But that doesn’t mean it won’t ruin your day if you happen to be someplace you shouldn’t or participating in say…a prison riot.

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