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Evaluating Gang Training for Officers

If you're looking for good gang training, remember all gang training is not equal. Many of these sources suffer from poor curriculum and sub-standard instructors.

The Scale of Desirability and Fatal Funnel

If you understand how the mind works, then you'll understand the power of words to program the subconscious mind for success or failure. In this week's post, we'll continue with that line of thought by examining the "scale of desirability" and "fatal funnel."

Dirty Cops: The Slobs You Will Meet on Patrol

I've even heard tale of a cop who saved a partially devoured piece of chicken he found under the front seat and mailed it through the departmental mail to the offender.

Can Officers Learn From a Competition Shooter?

Most academy and qualification training with firearms is devoted to shooting at stationary silhouettes at 25 and 50 yards. This isn't the real world. In the real world, the bad guy is pumped full of adrenaline and is mobile.

Interview Failures and Faults

Show the energy and drive you have to become their officer selection. Interview boards don't understand the "I will give you an honest day's work for an honest day's pay" work ethic. They want energy, motivation and somebody who is clamoring for the position.

Angels and Angel Dust

This wanton disregard for others including the innocent children who must live in a gang household is like the twisted sickness that causes arsonists it start uncontrolled fires even when their own home and family might be consumed.

LEAs 'Creep' Toward Twin-Engine Helicopters

American law enforcement, unlike European counterparts, hasn't exclusively shifted away from single-engine choppers, Larry Roberts, a Bell Helicopter senior vice president, told POLICE on Tuesday.

The U.S. Park Police use a Bell 412 twin-engine helicopter for airborne patrol and other law enforcement duties. Photo courtesy of Bell Helicopter.

Do You Have Court Today?

Working on rotating schedules and the balancing act of life is a juggling act. Add in court, range, training, kid's soccer game and birthdays, and it gets complicated. Get a system and stick to it.

Image via Flickr.com (stirwise).

GPS in Police Vehicles: Officer Safety or Big Brother Watching?

Some agencies and unions have agreed that GPS results will not be used against officers unless a complaint has been made, but other agencies have purchased computer software that will monitor an officer's speed and print out a report. Alerts can also send out if the vehicle's speed exceeds a predetermined maximum.

GPS client software such as this example from TrackStar AVLS displays the location and status of an agency's law enforcement vehicles on a map display. Image via TrackStar.

Guard Yourself While Carrying Off Duty

A firearm stolen from one officer's vehicle was later used to kill still another-Minneapolis PD Officer Richard Miller, who'd stopped the gun thief in yet another stolen vehicle.

Several companies, including 5.11 Tactical, sell clothing designed to allow for easy access of a concealed weapon when off duty.

Wearing a High-Visibility Vest May Save Your Life

I know what it's like to have to get out and work a traffic accident; it only takes a few seconds to don this vest. There are still some officers who resist wearing the vest and try to trump up the circumstances to exempt themselves. You're only endangering yourself by doing this.

5.11 Tactical offers its Breakaway High-Vis Vest for law officers working motorways.

Women in Law Enforcement

Domestic Violence Is a Preventable Crime

What I do want to tell is my story, my connection with domestic violence, why I joined the Richmond (Va.) City Police Department, and what I'm doing to help.

Richmond (Va.) PD Sergeant Carol Adams boxes up old cell phones to be recycled through Verizon Wireless' HopeLine program that benefits victims of domestic violence.

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