How Should We Grieve?

How Should We Grieve?

How should we grieve? Should we drink our sorrows away? Should we go sit on a couch with a psychiatrist and pour our heart out? Do we go to our family and hold them as tightly as possible and pray that they never endure the hurt we feel right now? Police departments across the ...
How to Bust Embezzlers

How to Bust Embezzlers

Last time around, we talked about how to organize financial data for an investigation. Let’s take those techniques and apply them to a specific type of investigation: embezzlement. Embezzlement: How It Works For our purposes, we are going to refer to embezzlement as a financial ...
In Context: The Killing of Eric Harris

In Context: The Killing of Eric Harris

[Publisher's Note: Following is an excerpt adapted from In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians, by Nick Selby, Ben Singleton, and Ed Flosi. The book is now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and in paperback.] [Author's Note: A verdict was ...
In Context

In Context

The recent debate over police reform has claimed, on both sides, statistics as its bedrock. And, not surprisingly, this hasn't gotten us very far. The reason, as Selby, Singleton, and Flosi so adeptly demonstrate, is because context--the totality of known circumstances for each and ...
Should Police Video Be Used in Court?

Should Police Video Be Used in Court?

It seems that almost every day you turn on the news there is another police incident caught on video. The videos, captured from police equipment such as dash- and bodycams are released by agencies attempting to appear transparent. Is releasing police videos helping or hurting ...

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