[Publisher's Note: We've been writing a lot lately about police fatigue and the importance of non-punitive close-calls reporting. Following is an excellent article from Governing.com on this topic, reprinted below with permission.]
Fatigue is bad for any work environment. But for ...
Jesse Williams and Randy Larcher recently shared a wonderful article through Calibre Press called "The Power of Thinking Small." I hope they’ll permit me to expand on their thoughts with some of my own.
Their article sent me off on a mission to examine the current perspective, at ...
I recently asked a very knowledgeable university-level researcher who studies police and, specifically, the effects of fatigue on officer performance a simple question: “Can you name a case in which officer fatigue was identified as contributing to a bad outcome?”
He never got back ...
A few months ago I listened to retired Ohio State Highway Patrol Captain Bob Welsh discuss the phenomenon known as “the butterfly effect.” The butterfly effect in essence posits that when a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, the ripple effect can cause a hurricane on ...
[Publisher's Note: We received the following letter from a Seattle-area officer, written in response to the controversy surrounding Michael Bennett's detention in Las Vegas after a suspected active shooter incident. Football--like everything else it seems--has of recent become rife ...
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