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My Supervisor is an Idiot!
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.)
There are plenty of books and articles on being a good
leader and being a good follower. Indeed, excellent
followership starts with leadership. Moreover, there
are a lot of good books because there a lot of people
who need leadership training and mentoring. But, what
do you do when your supervisor is an idiot?
Here are ten tips!
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Unconvential Delivery of Deadly
Force in a Correctional Facility
Tracy E. Barnhart & Gary T. Klugiewicz
We wanted to write an article on a
topic that you might have thought that you never would
read about in print. This article is going to discuss
how and when to use deadly force in a correctional
facility and most importantly how to defend your
actions. Since most corrections officers are not
trained or equipped with weapons designed to deliver
deadly force the techniques we are going to discuss will
need to be unconventional. The following information is
the kind of stuff we talk about before roll call when we
hear about an assault on an officer from the previous
shift. This type of violent assault against a
corrections officer could happen anywhere. It could
even happen in your facility. These life threatening
assaults could happen to a friend or someone who you
went to the academy with or it could happen to you.
Hopefully it's doesn't end up like the incident
referenced below with an officer being killed.
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Attention to Duty: What Separates Good Cops from
the Status Quo
Sergeant Andrew G. Hawkes
Yesterday I was reminded one thing. That no matter how
routine you think this job is on a daily basis you just
can't think that way. I'm a sergeant, with seniority, so
with that seniority comes my pick of the day, evening, or
graveyard shifts. After nearly 20 years on the job I'm
taking the day shift, thank you very much. But with the
day shift comes supervising mostly veteran cops. Veteran
cops that have seen a lot, been through a lot, and quite
frankly want to do very little.
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Learning From 9/11: Organizational Change
in the New York City and Arlington County, Va., Police
Departments
When a terrorist attack or other mass
casualty incident occurs, the primary responsibility for
responding to the attack falls to local law enforcement.
Little is available in the way of best practices for
responding to large-scale critical incidents. A study of
the two law enforcement agencies that dealt most
directly with the 9/11 terrorist attacks - the New York
City Police Department and the Arlington County, Va.,
Police Department - looked at what practices the
agencies had in place that enabled them to respond to
the attacks; what special challenges they faced in
responding to the attacks; and what changes in
organization, training, and policies and procedures they
implemented in the aftermath of the attacks to improve
their ability to prevent, anticipate and coordinate
their response to terrorist and other critical
incidents. This Research for Practice summarizes the
study findings and presents the implications of the
agencies' experience for! law enforcement.
Download the Report
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Strengthening Forensic Science in the United
States: A Path Forward
Recognizing that significant
improvements are needed in forensic science, Congress
directed the National Academy of Sciences to undertake
the study that led to this report. There are scores of
talented and dedicated people in the forensic science
community, and the work that they perform is vitally
important. They are often strapped in their work,
however, for lack of adequate resources, sound
policies, and national support. It is clear that
change and advancements, both systemic and scientific,
are needed in a number of forensic science
disciplines-to ensure the reliability of the
disciplines, establish enforceable standards, and
promote best practices and their consistent
application.
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 Talent:
Implications for a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy
by Colonel Casey Wardynski, Major
David S. Lyle, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Michael J.
Colarusso
In our proposed Army Officer Corps
Strategy, we established the interdependency of
accessing, developing, retaining and employing
talented leaders. Before exploring each of those
functions in greater detail, however, we must first
define "talent." In our view, talent is something
possessed by everyone. In fact, each individual has a
unique distribution of talent across three
dimensions-skills, knowledge, and behaviors. Effective
organizations understand this. They successfully
access and retain a depth and breadth of talent that
can be developed and employed against current and
future requirements.
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National Youth Gang Survey Analysis
Since 1996, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) has
conducted an annual survey of law enforcement agencies
to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the
presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs
in jurisdictions throughout the United States. The
National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS) is based on a
nationally representative sample of law enforcement
agencies serving larger cities, suburban counties,
smaller cities, and rural counties. This Web resource
contains analysis and findings from the ongoing National
Youth Gang Surveys. Numerous charts and descriptions are
provided as a resource for understanding gang problems.
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Top 50 Reviewer Praises Leadership: Texas Hold
'em Style
Charles Ashbacher, a Top 50 Reviewer on
Amazon.com posted a review of Leadership Texas
Hold 'em Style. According to Amazon.com, a
"Top 50 Reviewer" identifies Ashbacher as
having "helped their fellow customers make
informed purchase decisions on Amazon.com with
their consistently helpful, high-quality
reviews." Charles Ashbacher has reviewed over
4,800 books and received nearly 14,000 votes
from readers with an 88% ranking as finding
his reviews helpful.
Read On
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JUSTNET Media Gallery: Watch and Learn
JUSTNET has a new video feature to keep the criminal
justice community current on National Institute of Justice
technology developments, issues and services. NLECTC
Minutes are brief educational online videos that highlight
recent technology advances and issues of interest to law
enforcement and corrections practitioners. The videos,
which are a few minutes long, will touch on a variety of
topics. Some could relate to practitioner needs and
requirements; others could highlight technology
information gathered from NIJ technology institutes for
law enforcement and corrections. Each video series will
highlight a technology area. The current series spotlights
body armor, discussing how body armor works, NIJ
Standard-0101.06 and its effect on the law enforcement
community, and the differences between stab-resistant and
ballistic-resistant armor. Topics planned for future
videos include technology developed under NIJ's Aviation
Technology Program.
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Solving Missing Persons Cases
by Beth Pearsall with Danielle Weiss
This article highlights NIJ's National
Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), the
first national repository of its kind. NamUs, which
provides a "needed bridge" between law enforcement
agencies, medical examiners, coroners and the public,
already houses more than 2,000 missing persons and 5,000
unidentified decedent cases that could potentially be
solved with the help of this new communication tool.
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Communication and Public Health
Emergencies: A Guide for Law Enforcement
This report is one in a series of three
documents created by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF),
with support from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office
of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA),
on the law enforcement response to public health
emergencies. This report identifies the considerations
that law enforcement executives should address in their
public health communications plans, regarding internal
communications (those that remain within the law
enforcement agency) as well as external communications
(those that go to other agencies or the public).
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Making Money with a Computer Virus
Running a large number of websites and a small office
network has certainly given me a lot of experience in
being exposed to the dangers of Viruses, Trojans and other
MalWare. Also, having taught an introductory course in
computer crime and written a book on technology - well, I
have at least a pretty good idea about the dangers of the
Internet. But, I didn't think I would ever fall into a way
to make money with computer viruses.
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