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August 2010
In This Issue
Weapons
Lights and Lasers: It's Easy Being Green
This year's offerings in lights and lasers include both red and green laser systems. They're getting more and more powerful, feature packed, and smaller, thus enabling use on concealable handguns while still providing retina-searing light levels.
August 30, 2010
Patrol
Grab and Go
Most civilian packs aren't up to the task of handling a cop's multitude of weapons, accessories, and random must-have items securely and without falling apart after some rough use. Read on for a selection of storage options that can fit a bunch and take a tumble with no trouble.
August 30, 2010
Patrol
Police Product Test: Under Armour Chimera Training Shoes
Scott Smith reviews Under Armour Chimera Training Shoes, 5.11 Tactical Light for Life PC3.300, Safariland Double Rifle Case, and Armortek Double Pistol Case.
August 30, 2010
Weapons
Smith & Wesson M&P15R
I'd like to discuss a somewhat unusual rifle choice that can help law enforcement agencies and individual officers realistically cope with the rising cost and shortage of .223/5.56 patrol rifle ammunition. I believe the solution to this problem is for law enforcement agencies to field the
Smith & Wesson
M&P15R M4-style carbine chambered in 5.45x39mm.
August 19, 2010
Patrol
Shots Fired: Midway, Georgia 03/23/2010
A Monday afternoon, a small blue VW, and a one-armed man in a dress suit: Hardly the components one is apt to conjure up when envisioning a firefight.
August 19, 2010
Special Units
Risk Management
Things are not technologically stagnant in the SWAT community. New versions of the tried and true, as well as innovative uses of modern mechanisms, simultaneously bring SWAT teams closer to suspects in the safest way possible and bring situations to safer conclusions.
August 19, 2010
Technology
Database Linguist
Thinkstream has now connected the databases of 64 parish sheriffs and 200-plus police departments. Integrated Justice allows each agency to control how much data it is willing to share with its neighbors.
August 15, 2010
Weapons
Searching for an Effective Small Caliber Sniper Round
This is about an alternative to a .308 for those snipers who will likely never even see a 100-yard deployment and do not need the overpenetration or down range effect. I believe the 6.8 SPC is that alternative.
August 11, 2010
Patrol
Maine Officer Saves Suicidal Woman From Attempted Bridge Jump
On Dec. 13, 2009, Officer Rob Angelo of the Bangor (Maine) Police Department drew on his 18 years of law enforcement experience to keep a distraught woman from jumping into an icy river to her death. For his actions he was named the August 2010 Officer of the Month by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
August 11, 2010
Vehicle Ops
Buying a Mobile Command Center
Acquiring any big ticket item for a law enforcement agency takes lots of time and lots of money. So when the
Indiana Department of Homeland Security
had the opportunity to purchase a new mobile command center from
Supreme Specialty Vehicles
, Response Director Shane A. Booker wanted to do it right the first time.
August 11, 2010
Vehicle Ops
Mobile Command Vehicles
Find a command center on wheels to meet your agency's needs.
August 11, 2010
Patrol
The Bureaucratic Touch
We put high sensation-seeking folks like you in a highly structured bureaucracy and are shocked when it stresses the heck out of you.
August 9, 2010
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