An Oklahoma City police sergeant has been charged with first-degree manslaughter and a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter for shooting a man in the back three times. A man who seconds before attempted to kill another sergeant, charging him with a knife in hand.
The ...
The concept of having social workers respond to emergency calls involving mentally ill subjects is—excuse the understatement—complex.
These are highly unpredictable contacts often characterized by rapidly changing levels of confrontational behavior and overall threat to the ...
Picture this. You find yourself face-to-face with a guy who’s holding a gun against his thigh.
He’s not pointing it at you. He’s also not going to give it up.
How do you know?
Because he’s told you so. Twice.
He’s sexually assaulted a woman, stolen her ...
By Jim Glennon
The push from many quarters of this country (both the sane and insane) is that law enforcement as we know it needs to be reformed.
I agree.
I’m not kidding, I totally agree.
And no, I’m not capitulating to the hysterical throngs who have no idea ...
By Chief Scott Hughes
Since the development of the tire deployment device (TDD), not a year has passed without the loss or serious injury of officers involved with their use—be it preparing for deployment, executing deployment, or post-deployment retrieval. Already, after just four ...
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