[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]New Year’s Eve is always a special night—we gather with family and friends, and sometimes hit the town—to ring in the new year. But it’s not all fun and games. Safety is a...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]The use of mind-altering substances by humans is nothing new. Since the first person left a bowl of grain out in the rain, and then the sun and wild yeast did their thing,...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]When the FBI released “The Assailant Study – Mindsets and Behaviors” last month, most of the coverage focused on the study’s findings that “departments—and individual...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Robinson, 846 F.3d 694 (4th Cir. 2017) (en banc) An anonymous caller told police that he had just “witnessed a black male in a bluish greenish Toyota Camry...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Last month we discussed the number 100 and the significance this number holds for both police and fire services. The number represents a benchmark for annual firefighter...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Send me another unit 10-33 Requesting backup Signal 00 Roll cover Officer needs assistance Officer needs help Chances are, you have uttered at least one of these phrases...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]100. It’s a nice round number; however, in this case there is nothing nice about it. In both law enforcement and the fire service, this number represents a benchmark we...
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[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Opening the day’s mail, you come across a certified letter. As you scan the contents, your heart begins to beat a little faster and your mind races. OSHA has received a...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]By now most of you are probably familiar with the Below 100 Project and its goal of reducing the number of police officer line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) to less than...
Last year I moved my family to the Valley of the Sun in Phoenix. Let me tell you, it’s HOT here! As I write this, it is 106 degrees outside; with 22% humidity, it feels like 108. I am grateful to be sitting in an air-conditioned house, but I am thinking about our...
