This article is for the rookies. Congratulations! You’ve made it past swearing-in day. The academy is behind you, the hiring process is completed and you’ve atoned for all of the sins of your past life in the background checks. The chief handed you a shiny new badge, carrying with it ...
There's a lot of discussion these days about the need to develop, grow and maintain relationships with “The Community.” By community we usually refer to the people who live and work in the cities, towns, villages and counties where we police. Within each city, town and county there ...
Burnout associated with stress has become somewhat acceptable as part of a police officer’s daily experience. While we may accept that, most don't realize the extent of the toll it takes.
Down-right dirty and dangerous, stress-related illness will takes just as many lives of ...
From AZCentral.com:
Body-camera footage released by the city of Winslow on Wednesday shows the seconds leading up to the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old Navajo woman by a Winslow police officer, with the woman advancing toward the officer with a pair of silver scissors in her left ...
Twenty officers died in the line of duty during the month of July, making this the deadliest July in more than a decade. The loss of these officers brings the number lost in 2016 to 70. Now seven months into the year, we’re at the same rate of overall loss that we were this same time ...