Post-critical incident conversations: Be careful what you say, and to whom you say it

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Post-critical incident conversations: Be careful what you say, and to whom you say it

By candlken on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | No Comments

This is something that every officer should be knowledgeable about. It is not something that is paid much attention to in a young officer’s career. It is gone over in the Police Academy but not in depth and it is not something that I really worried about. If you are ever involved in a critical incident it is imperative that you be aware of this. If you are not aware of all your rights then get a union rep asap before answering any questions from superiors.Police Liability and Litigationwith Terrence P. Dwyer, Esq. You are on patrol, thirty minutes until the end of your week-long midnight shift …Read more [.....]

Dallas police: Officer drew gun during traffic stop of NFL player outside hospital

By candlken on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Hmmm…. This does not look or sound too good for the officer. It will be interesting to see if any more information is gained as to what happened.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/032609dnmetcopstop.3e9c080.html?nTar=OPUR By STEVE THOMPSON and TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning NewsThe Dallas Police Department confirmed Thursday that an officer drew a gun on NFL running back Ryan Moats and his wife after he stopped them to give them a ticket even as they begged to hurry to the bedside of their dying mother.As he rushed his family to the hospital, Ryan Moats, 26, …Read more [.....]

Oakland PD Stunned By Day of Loss

By candlken on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Another tragic example of the dangers out there and the crazed lunatics that our society is in danger of. And if the stories of bystanders taunting the police as these officers lay dying are true, God help us. Stay safe!By Terry Collins and Lisa Leff Associated PressOAKLAND, Calif. — Bouquets of flowers from grieving residents were piled up at a growing memorial in front of the Oakland police department after its worst single day death toll.Three officers were killed Saturday during separate confrontations with a 26-year-old parolee who relatives said feared returning to jail. A fourth officer …Read more [.....]

Dallas Police Department Dropping Police Code For Plain English

By candlken on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

I am surprised this hasn’t happened earlier. Memorizing so many codes can be challenging!By: ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] Catch a cop show over the past several decades and these strings of numbers barked over police radios might sound familiar: “1-Adam-12, a 4-15 fight.” …”We have a 9-11. Armed robbery in progress.” Or in the words of the bumbling Barney Fife: “Mayberry Unit No. 1 over and, uh, Roger. Roger. Out and under. 10-40. Bye.” But many real-life police departments are ditching the digits, replacing the lingo with plain English. In Dallas, that means so …Read more [.....]

Easy To Second Guess….

By candlken on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 | No Comments

It is very easy for people not involved in a situation to Monday Morning Quarterback and decide what should have been done. This article is interesting as this type of situation can occur to any police officer. As we all know, sometimes it is dam if you do, dam if you don’t.http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/1798464-NOPD-officer-fired-after-failing-to-shoot-at-gunman/By Brendan McCarthy Times-PicayuneNEW ORLEANS — Patrolling Algiers one August night, New Orleans police officer Stephen Neveaux and his partner hear a series of explosions. He drives toward the noise.Soon, they see a man standing …Read more [.....]

Losing a Case in Court, Not to Worry

By candlken on Monday, March 16th, 2009 | No Comments

New officers take their jobs very seriously. I mean, very, very seriously. As time goes on and experience and reality set in this seriousness lessens. Not that an experienced officer isn’t serious about the job it is just that writing traffic tickets aren’t a big deal anymore and losing court cases do bother us as much. In the early years of my career I remember getting very upset if one of my traffic tickets was thrown out or if I lost a trial on one, probably because the goofball judge knew their attorney if they had one. If the person who got off looked at me and gave me a sneering smile as …Read more [.....]

Is This Some Kind of Payback?

By candlken on Monday, March 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’The Reverend Noble Samuel was driving to the studio when a car pulled over in front of him. A man got out and came over to ask him directions in Urdu.Mr Samuel, based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London, said: ‘He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the door.He started …Read more [.....]

Religious Discrimination?

By candlken on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Can this type of thing be common in the USA?Officer ‘Bullied Because Of Beliefs’ 09-Mar-09 Claiming religious discrimination and unfair dismissal, the ex PC is taking Bedfordshire Police to an employment tribunal… A Muslim officer claims he was bullied out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a “f***ing Paki”. PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly talked in front of him about how they were “better” than their ethnic-minority colleagues. The married father-of-two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him …Read more [.....]

FBI Director Mueller: A Mumbai-style attack can happen in the U.S.

By candlken on Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | No Comments

How many cities around the world could fall prey to a Mumbai-style attack? How many cities here in the United States? Could a similar attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? These were the questions posed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in an address before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. last week. Muller said that the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 and wounded more than 300 others in Mumbai three months ago “reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact” and that …Read more [.....]