[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]The call comes in as a structure fire. As personnel are suiting up, you fire up the rig and get the lights activated. In moments you’re rolling Code 3 with the siren...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]For thousands of years, canines have been trained to assist humans—from hunting and protection, to use in the military,...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]So far in this series on law enforcement hiring, we’ve taken a broad look at some steps that can improve hiring outcomes...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]People v. Smith, 2017 IL. App. (1st) 14-1814-U (Ill. App. 2017) Police investigating a string of robberies of food...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Commonwealth v. Crowley-Chester, (Mass. 2017) Two officers saw a car parked in front of a vacant lot and across the street from a church at 0300. The motor was running and...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Editor's note: This article originally appeared in The Chief’s Chronicle; New York State Association of Chiefs of Police The public debate over police use of force...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Since the beginning of time, man has searched for witnesses to crimes. In the Bible, the first instance of criminal...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Should law enforcement officers be allowed to shoot at or into vehicles? The question has dominated discussion for more than a year now, rehashed with each new headline...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Major Jeff Fox knew his agency’s policies were lacking. Although he had been part of an effort to write the Vigo County...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Turner v. Driver, 2017 WL 650186 (5th Cir. 2017) Turner was video recording a police station. Two officers drove up and...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Commonwealth v. Thomas, 2017 WL 581933 (Mass. 2017) Thomas was a backseat passenger in a car driven by Humphrey-Frazer....
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Paxton, 2017 WL 655432 (7th Cir. 2017) Paxton, his brother and three other men agreed to rob a drug...
