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Inside the Badge by William HarveyNovember 12, 2012

Preparing Yourself for Duty

Planning is simple, it takes minutes to avoid hours of frustration. I stay amazed at those who don't listen or catch the weather reports.

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Small Fleets – Big ChallengesNovember 9, 2012

The ins-and-outs of Outsourcing

Productivity has been defined as the ratio between opportunity and accomplishment. Most if not all municipal garages suffer from a poor public image, the conventional wisdom is that a private service vendor can outperform the slow wheels of progress in a government facility. In an effort to validate this facility’s competiveness in the market a fully burdened labor rate was established.

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Small Fleets – Big ChallengesNovember 9, 2012

The ins-and-outs of Outsourcing

Productivity has been defined as the ratio between opportunity and accomplishment. Most if not all municipal garages suffer from a poor public image, the conventional wisdom is that a private service vendor can outperform the slow wheels of progress in a government facility. In an effort to validate this facility’s competiveness in the market a fully burdened labor rate was established.

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Small Fleets – Big ChallengesNovember 9, 2012

The ins-and-outs of Outsourcing

Productivity has been defined as the ratio between opportunity and accomplishment. Most if not all municipal garages suffer from a poor public image, the conventional wisdom is that a private service vendor can outperform the slow wheels of progress in a government facility. In an effort to validate this facility’s competiveness in the market a fully burdened labor rate was established.

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Inside the Badge by Lori ConnellyNovember 9, 2012

Marijuana and the Fall of Civilization

From a law enforcement standpoint, the paranoia problems caused by marijuana concern me the most.

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Inside the Badge by Dean ScovilleNovember 8, 2012

Coming Into My Own

Once while attending a force training seminar, I spoke quite critically of a deputy-involved shooting wherein a pregnant bystander was shot and killed. It was the kind of thing that was easy to grandstand on—or so I thought—and so I did. A lieutenant who was more intimately acquainted with the details of the incident quickly set me straight. The dressing down I received was pretty severe, and I didn't like it one bit. But I had it coming. In spades.

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Inside the Badge by Richard ValdemarNovember 7, 2012

Gangs In the Courtroom

Every victim or witness had heard the stories in the ghetto about gang retaliation against those who were foolish enough to snitch on gang members. Most of these stories were only urban legends that grew with each telling. Some were absolutely true. Gangs do target witnesses.

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Inside the Badge by William HarveyNovember 5, 2012

Cooling Your Marks

Most academies and departments embrace a form of "tactical talking" such as verbal judo, MOAB, or some other fashion of police/citizen verbal intercourse. It doesn't matter which system you use; they all give you years of experience in a compressed amount of time.

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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonNovember 2, 2012

Driving the New Patrol Cars

The chance to get behind the wheel of the new patrol cars proved to be an opportunity I just couldn't pass up. So I'm passing along a few driving notes about the cars. I've never pursued a suspect through a blind alley or attempted a PIT Maneuver at high speeds, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonNovember 1, 2012

2013 Vehicle Tests: Michigan Vs. California

The Michigan State Police and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department provided Police Magazine with preliminary results from the vehicle tests conducted in September and October of pursuit-rated patrol vehicles for the 2013 model year.

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Inside the Badge by Melanie BasichOctober 31, 2012

Police Links: Creepy Crimes

Ah, yes. In the tenth month of the year the days are getting shorter and the creeps seem to be getting creepier. It wouldn't be October without weird Halloween-related crime stories.

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Inside the Badge by Jose MedinaOctober 30, 2012

Going 'Hands On' During an Entry

How well prepared you are to make entry into a structure, order subjects to the ground, and transition to hands to place handcuffs or control subjects on the ground?

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