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Police Magazine
August 2002
In This Issue
Special Units
TWO if by Sea: Tactical Waterborne Units
The lesson of the Baltimore exercise is quite clear: police agencies can't just arbitrarily decide that their jurisdictions end at the water's edge and assume that anything on the water will be handled by the Coast Guard, the Navy, or somebody else.
July 31, 2002
Weapons
The Scientific Method
Searching for a weapon that would fit the grips of both small-handed officers and big officers with huge meathooks, Jenkins' attention was drawn to the Model 1911 platform, a pistol design that has not been officially adopted by a U.S. metropolitan police department in 50 years.
July 31, 2002
Technology
The Fifth Element
Welcome to the new battleground. Called "fifth-dimensional battlespace," it takes the old three-dimensional battlefield (the spatial dimensions of length, width, height or depth of an area), and the temporal dimension of time, and adds the fifth dimension of cyberspace.
July 31, 2002
Special Units
Field Dressing
The reality of the contemporary police special ops team is very different than the image of LAPD SWAT that was burned into America's collective consciousness by the hit show.
July 31, 2002
Patrol
Don't You Have Better Things to Do?
Police work is not intended to generate revenue. This happens because the command staff allows it to happen and they, in turn, sell out their police officers and the entire law enforcement community.
July 31, 2002
Weapons
Mossberg: The 'Other' Shotgun
With the advent of today's innovative roundup of specialty munitions, including high-velocity sabot slugs, less-lethal rounds, and the new generations of low-recoiling buckshot, the smoothbore has a new lease on life.
July 31, 2002
Special Units
Home Invasion Robberies
Indo-Chinese street gangs have made these robberies a popular form of crime for today's gangsters.
July 31, 2002
Patrol
Scarce Ammo and Surprising Shots
None of the politicos knew until it was over that many of the officers only had one bullet each, and many of them had no ammunition at all.
July 31, 2002
Patrol
Shock Absorbers
If you are shot while wearing body armor, you will still feel the energy of the bullet's impact. But if the armor works, the force will be spread out over your entire torso rather than in just a specific area.
July 31, 2002
Weapons
Hidden Threats
As police officers on the streets of our cities, you face potentially deadly disguised and hidden weapons every single day.
July 31, 2002
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