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You'd think that as people engaged in a profession that is no less broadstroked by the public, cops would have more empathy for security guards.
Read More →The magnetism of the team is so powerful that those who miss the "big one" for any reason will often feel badly about it for many years.
Read More →Law enforcement is replete with stories of true warriors whose will to prevail often defies even the most daunting odds.
Read More →In conducting interviews with the officers profiled in my Shots Fired columns, I was surprised at how many either didn't know that they'd been injured, or if they knew they'd been injured didn't know where their injuries were located or their severity.
Read More →For several months prior to the riots, intelligence reports rolled across my desk about activity in the Jordan Downs, Imperial Courts, and Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects. Drug dealers were financing meetings of gang members from rival gangs, and these meetings were being arbitrated by OGs (veteran gang members) or the Fruit of Islam, Black Muslim security units.
Read More →I recently received a question from a department's Field Training Officer program coordinator. His department just hired several new officers. Great, except these are not academy-fresh officers; these are veteran officers from other departments. What now?
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