Several years ago when I was a patrol sergeant we made it a practice to have new officers coming into the agency and onto our shift show us what they knew relating to critical tasks for the job. We wanted to know, tactically, where they stood and what we needed to work on to make ...
By: Michael A. Orticelle
I have been fortunate to attend several police leadership training events over the last year. Organizations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Gallagher-Westfall Group have training programs for police executives that ...
As cops shout about the “war on cops” and activists try to debunk that any such war exists, we are missing the real point: which is that we are at the low-point of a cycle that repeats itself every 10 to 15 years or so.
That problem is cynicism.
Right now, the media and activists ...
The draft of this article has been sitting in my pending file for a few years. Since I’m about 98% retired from the expert industry, I figure now's the time.
This is a two-part series. Part Uno will deal with the issues of being a consulting expert. Part Dos will cover all the ...
[Publisher's Note: Darrin Fulton wrote last week of his recent experience with losing a colleague and friend in the line of duty. It's raw, painful, and important, because too few discuss these difficult feelings in public, which only adds to the pain. In response to that article, ...
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