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The complicated line between ridding a community of homeless people & upholding their rights.

Below 100: Ignoring the obvious only perpetuates the problem In October 2010, Law Officer launched Below 100, a common-sense officer safety initiative that focuses on areas under an officer's control. ...

Training your troops to be locked & loaded when it counts.

Tools that improve capability without breaking the bank.

As America comes to terms with the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., police agencies and officers are looking at what happened there and in other active-shooter incidents for important lessons ...

We live in an increasingly disruptive world where the severity of incidents, if not the frequency, has required more departments to look at the need for heavy duty hardware in ...

In September 2010, I had the opportunity to formalize a small training company I began approximately 10 years earlier. We named it LifeLine Training Ltd. Through hard work, the hiring ...

Good instructors work hard at trying to communicate effectively. It ain’t easy. Whether it’s through the sharing of written words, speaking in front of students or even on the firing ...

There’s an old saying: The more things change, the more they stay the same. I, for one, wish it weren’t true: Statistics show that, while our patrol vehicles are getting ...