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Inside the Badge is a collection of blogs offering unique insights and perspectives from the Law Enforcement Community

Inside the Badge by William HarveyJune 2, 2009

Budgets, Needs, and Wants

You need to weigh criticality versus frequency in making this decision. How critical is it for you to have this widget? Will your life and survival depend on it? If not, reconsider.

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Inside the Badge by Dean ScovilleMay 29, 2009

Helping Yourself Out in Matters of Force

If there's ever a time for you to start thinking like a sergeant, a detective, and a lawyer, it's when you've just knocked some suspect on his ass.

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Inside the Badge by David GriffithMay 29, 2009

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.

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Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Monsters

One day my team conducted a parole search of a Nazi Low Rider. Coincidently, it happened on his four-year-old son’s birthday. We found a birthday cake fashioned into a Nazi flag with a huge black swastika in the center. The little boy’s birthday card was handmade by his convict father and featured “The Fourteen Words” pledge of the hate-filled white supremacist.

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Inside the Badge by Dean ScovilleMay 28, 2009

The Challenge of Analyzing a Tragedy While We’re Still Grieving

Shortly after the murders of four Oakland officers by parolee Lovelle Mixon in March, I got a call from Police Magazine editor David Griffith. He wanted me to write a feature article on the Oakland incidents. To be honest I didn’t want to do it.

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Inside the Badge by Robert O'BrienMay 27, 2009

Embrace the Ripple Effect

The loss of multiple officers in a single incident results in a ripple effect that almost always results in significant departmental changes, and is never forgotten. This ripple effect often reaches far beyond the effected agency itself.

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