Tag: Leadership

Law enforcement deals with challenges every day, and in the past 50 years, we’ve certainly faced a lot—soaring crime rates, increased public scrutiny, budget crises, the plague of drugs, the ...

As a new lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, I became watch commander of 60 uniformed traffic-collision investigators. Alcohol-related (DUI) collisions accounted for more than half of our traffic ...

This month I'll probably offend a few of you, challenge a lot of you and hopefully cause many to say, "Right on!" The subject is officer safety, something near and ...

All police officers should expect to interact with the media while handling a wide variety of police incidents. Those persons designated as public information officers (PIOs) have both the opportunity ...

Success depends on more than good luck. Officers require a solid set of survival skills to prevail during and after a deadly force incident.

Last month, I began my column discussing a 5 Day Reality Based Training Instructor school in north Florida. I described a scenario that included a resistant motorist and a request ...

Dear Bullethead: My beat partner recently got himself a girlfriend. Problem is, he has a wife and two kids. Before you say it's just his business, let me add that ...

Just before Christmas in Oceanside, Calif., police officer Dan Bessant was working patrol when he heard a beat partner, Karina Pina, make a traffic stop in an area known to ...

We all make choices in our careers for good and bad. Sometimes just speaking our minds will inadvertently cause a career choice. This is the story of how one such ...

Hey, Bullethead: What's the deal? I thought getting a discounted or free meal was part of the job, one of those fringe benefits we get for being a loyal public ...