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For those who grew up watching Law and Order marathons on television, solving a crime seemed so simple. A few pointed questions, a little good cop-bad cop back and forth, and within a few minutes, the...
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“Forensic video analysis is a very powerful tool that can be used in search of the truth. There is no prosecution truth or defense truth; there is only the truth.”
To the lofty statement above,...
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It was early 2018 in a Recruit School course at the Police Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) standard addressed was “Biased Polic...
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On November 23, 2012, Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old software developer, shot and killed 17-year-old high school student Jordan Davis at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. An argument between Dunn a...
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It is late on a Friday night when an individual calls in a crime tip that a wanted subject is at a nearby residence. As police confirm the nature of the wanted status and important elements from the t...
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Lieutenant John Morris was promoted to sergeant in 2008, and by 2015, he was a senior patrol sergeant with experience in teaching and developing courses. He approached a colleague—a patrol lieutenan...
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The policing profession has been under intense scrutiny over the past several years.1 The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, brought allegations of racially motivated policing to th...
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The last several years have been challenging for law enforcement. In August 2018, preliminary 2018 data show that fatalities in law enforcement were already up by more than 10 percent over 2017 and th...
