Tag: Magazine Feature

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 ...

My next series of investigative columns focuses on the crime of rape. Due to the unique nature of the crime and the frequency in which physical evidence plays a pivotal ...

A little after 1930 hrs on Jan. 12, 2001, as I lay on the laundry room floor of an armed suspect's residence, a burning sensation in my right leg and ...

I took my first firearms instructor course in 1980. I'll never forget what the lead instructor said on the first day: "Never shoot in front of your students. If they ...

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 ...

With the multitude of less-lethal or, as I prefer to call them, compliance/incapacitation munitions, available to SWAT teams today, it can prove difficult to determine which technologies best suit your ...

On Dec. 25, 1993, in Orange County, Calif., Daryl Robbins and his partner decide to take advantage of some down time they had compliments of the Christmas season to improve ...

Consider the following scenario: You and a partner respond to a call of a domestic disturbance at a residence. Upon arrival, you are greeted by the female caller who tells ...

In my last column, I discussed the best way to use PowerPoint to make a presentation, either in training or in some other venue. I discussed structuring your presentation, using ...

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 ...