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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonNovember 29, 2011

POLICE Announces Monthly Photo Caption Contest Winner

We posted an "outtake" from our monthly Well-Dressed Officer contest, and asked you to provide the caption. You gave us some very funny responses.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 15, 2011

Video: Calif. City Officials Not Amused by Police Video Spoof

Council members in a California city probably weren't laughing when they watched a viral YouTube video spoofing police harassment that depicts several officers in uniform with identifiable agency patches.

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Articlesby Dave SmithNovember 14, 2011

Responding to a Code Z

A plethora of TV shows, movies, and novels explore all types of the undead or living dead. Future generations will no doubt attribute this fixation to one or another of our social ills, and one certainly has to admit that there must be some strange social collective fear that has made these critters the subject of so much attention.

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Articlesby Dave SmithOctober 10, 2011

Learn From the Replay

Feedback can come from the officer watching himself on a dashcam or a sergeant telling him he turns his back on a violator every time he keys his mic. This is a lot better than spitting teeth out in the back of an ambulance or worse.

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Inside the Badge by William HarveySeptember 6, 2011

Laugh Often

There are times where a good laugh will get you over a bad day or through a tough call. I would advise you to take the job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

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Articlesby Dave SmithAugust 16, 2011

DVR Dreams

I had the strangest dream the other night. I was a detective on my way to a homicide and my partner was that big guy from "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" who knows everything about everything.

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Articlesby Dave SmithJune 9, 2011

Stay Refreshed

When I took over firearms instruction in the academy the first thing I did was try to imbue everyone with the ideas that shooting was fun, anyone can do it, and if there is a problem it is only the technique, and not the person.

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Articlesby Dave SmithMay 4, 2011

The Hole

Over the years I have had so many "if only" moments; most of them have been about debt and its related stresses. When I was developing officer safety programs at the academy, I was stunned to find the number one cause of divorce among law enforcement officers was not dispatchers, but financial stress.

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Articlesby Dave SmithMarch 14, 2011

My Inner Cro-Magnon

What the heck happened to us? Cro-Magnons were big, athletic, and healthy until they died (mostly young), and had bigger brains than we do.

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Articlesby Dave SmithFebruary 10, 2011

Dumping Garbage

We have to decide not to carry garbage around ourselves and not to accept it from others.

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