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In July 2017, state and local leaders in Utah met to address a burgeoning crime problem in downtown Salt Lake City, near Utah’s largest homeless shelter. During a span of a few years, the Rio Grande...
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At 4:59 p.m. on a rainy Halloween night, an officer working complaint duty at a local police office was notified that there was a “walk up” complainant named “John” wanting to speak to an agen...
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In February 2018, an 80-year-old man with dementia disappeared with his grocery cart from a shopping center in Southern California. The Irvine Police Department (IPD) launched a large-scale search tha...
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You are dispatched to a robbery. Upon arrival, you observe three men fleeing the scene. You and your partner pursue and are able to apprehend two of the three men. One of the individuals is demonstrat...
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As communities across the United States struggle to implement a comprehensive approach to combating homelessness, many factors are cited as contributing to the problem, including low wages, lack of af...
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Law enforcement officers live in their community’s crises. Their existence while at work necessitates resolving the highs and lows of other people’s lives, then resuming what most would consider n...
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On December 19, 2018, Hillsborough County, Florida, Deputy Sheriff Terry Shawn called into dispatch and said that he had harmed his family. Deputy Shawn told the dispatcher that financial and health p...
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Generally speaking, police officers are reluctant help seekers; like many people who work in the helping professions, officers are used to being the helpers—not being in the position of looking to s...
