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Inside the Badge •by Melanie Basich•March 29, 2013

Police Links: Spring Surprises

March is the month that ushers in the Spring season. It's also known for being unpredictable. It's no wonder then that this March has brought with it all manner of surprising stories, including a police dog that fired a gun and a suspect delivered to police by none other than Batman.

Inside the Badge •by Michael Bostic•March 29, 2013

P25 Systems: Harris Corp.'s Enhanced Failsoft with Security

The term "failsoft" refers to any failover condition that causes a digital trunked radio system to not trunk. This is most commonly caused by a loss of the control channel that subscriber radios use when communicating to the towers to assign a resource.

Inside the Badge •by Paul Clinton•March 28, 2013

ALS To Open Tactical Training Center

AMTEC Less-Lethal Systems (ALS) is on track to open a tactical training center this summer in Perry, Fla., to offer less-lethal training to law enforcement, corrections, and military personnel.

Inside the Badge •by Dean Scoville•March 28, 2013

Good Cops, Bad Cop, Whatcha Gonna Do

It's been said that a truly good cop could have worked any era in law enforcement and done quite well. When my mind revisits those cops that I used to work with, around, and to varying degrees tolerated, there are two groups that stand out predominantly for their diametrically opposite approaches to patrol.

Inside the Badge •by Paul Clinton•March 26, 2013

L.A. Sheriff's Super Puma Helicopters

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has completed a nearly $60-million overhaul of its helicopter fleet that brought 18 new Eurocopter helicopters, including three Super Pumas.

Inside the Badge •by Richard Valdemar•March 25, 2013

'Evil Evan' Ebel and the 211 Crew

The 211 Crew is a white-supremacist prison gang. The loosely structured group had its early formation in the Denver County Jail, and its members included a wanna-be rapper and white inmate whose crime partner was black.

Inside the Badge •by Greg Meyer•March 25, 2013

Lessons from the Onion Field

"How could this have happened?" The answer is found when you realize that in the past half century you have had the benefit of improved tactical training that came at the cost of the blood and minds of officers like Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger.

Inside the Badge •by Paul Clinton•March 21, 2013

Alaska's Village Public Safety Officers

To help keep the peace in Alaska's tiny indigenous villages, the state deputizes rural peace officers known as village public safety officers, or VPSOs.

Inside the Badge •by Paul Clinton•March 20, 2013

The Officer Survival Creed

"The will to survive, to survive the attack, must be uppermost in my mind. Therefore, preparation and not paranoia is the key to my survival. To survive I must be aware, be alert, be confident, be deceptive, be decisive, and be ready. I must expect the unexpected and do the unexpected."