Tag: Leadership

Concerned with Street Source Tactic

No doubt about it, police work can be dangerous. Confronting crooks and crazies is what cops do, and these activities carry risks. Improved tactics, training and trauma care have lowered ...

I don't know many cops who are big fans of Fox-TV's "World's Wildest Police Videos." This witless pastiche of police pursuits, car crashes, rampaging mobs and other public calamities offers ...

The quality of a police officer's career is largely determined by the mentoring the officer receives (or fails to receive). Mentoring is now recognized as an essential component to new-member ...

Dear Bullethead: We got a new chief about nine months ago, and he's turned our cop shop upside down. He'd only been here a week, and we started hearing about ...

Cops have long been society's gatekeepers. In addition to safeguarding the public, we ensure people follow rules. When people put themselves above the law, it's our responsibility to bring them ...

"An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army." William Tecumseh Sherman Problems in ...

Dear Bullethead:

I’d like to respond to Young Gun, whose letter to Bullethead appeared in the November/December 2005 issue of Law Officer (p. 80).

A friend of mine who is a supervisor at a small police department in California told me his police department was bracing for significant budget cuts in the new fiscal ...