Tag: Leadership

Late one night, two of my men, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), were shot and severely wounded. A young man had been running naked through the neighborhood ...

Dear Bullethead: I'm a dispatcher, and I found your column when I was looking at a copy of the magazine left in our communications center. I'm looking for advice on ...

A year ago, the first issue of Law Officer hit the streets, and I have to admit, I feel a bit like a rookie who made it through his probationary ...

You're a small department with 10 officers that's adding an investigator's position. Problem is, you need a crime scene vehicle, and you have no money. Another scenario: Your sheriff's department ...

Two uniformed officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) helped a plainclothes detective unit stop four dangerous suspects. As the two officers approached the suspects' vehicle, one of the ...

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 ...