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you know where to find me, I promise we’ll keep up our end of the deal. Dave. Heard It Before Yeah, yeah, so tell me again. All
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LEAA JAMES J. FOTIS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ALLIANCE OF AMERICA. “I’LL SAY IT AGAIN, SOME FOLKS DESERVE TO BE SHOT!” ake no mistake
CARRY OPTIONS FROM HOLSTERS TO HAVERSACKS. MARK HANTEN LIGHTING THE WAY have to marvel at the way different manufacturers are a
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OFFICERSURVIVAL SAMMY REESE GETTING HOME IN THE SAME CONDITION YOU WENT TO WORK IN. St u pi d Things I See GUN STUFF he most de
ON THEJOB COMMANDER GILMORE A CAREFULLY-SELECTED COLLECTION OF SLAPSHOTS AND SNOT-FLINGIN’ FUNNYSTUFF FROM FELLOW COPS. JUST AN
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EVOC ANTHONY RICCI SURVIVING IN YOUR MOBILE OFFICE. Dying Behind The Wheel — Why Cops Crash M Just the Facts • Average tenure w
STREET LEVEL JOHN MORRISON STRAIGHT TALK ON SUPERVISION & LEADERSHIP ON THE FRONT LINES — THE STREETS. APOLOGIES, TOXIC GAS AND
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RESERVES CHARLES E. PETTY DEDICATION AND PROFFESIONALISM THAT GOES BEYOND PAY. Reserves Are Cops Too. No, Really. ithin the law
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Jeremy D. Clough primer on the fastest o, really, ways to make your we’re on the prosecutor either love — same side. The or hat
Be neat and tidy with those reports — and leave the crayons at home. truth about the case is only as good as the way it’s conve
Don't get us wrong, we liked the idea, but the DA said it'd be best not to. Believe it or not, having a spit-cup on the stand i
S&W’S 21st CENTURY CLASSIC Return of the M&P Charles E. Petty Photos: Ichiro Nagata W hen Smith & Wesson introduced the .38 S&W
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Skilled At Arms … Or Do You Suck? It’s Up To I 46 was sitting with my wife in the bleachers at my son’s high school soccer game
Dave Spaulding "The cell phone reload" — don't laugh, we've seen it happen. You founded. The advice was such crap. I wondered w
justified in shooting, and we hit an innocent citizen instead, there’ll be hell to pay. It’s called “liability” — and it scares
THE FEDS VS. W hen asked if I would be interested in giving my thoughts on how to deal with federal law enforcement agencies, f
Sheppard W. Kelly THE LOCALS philosophy that it is much more blessed — and safer — to receive rather than give. Another Opinion
Charles E. Petty THE MYTH OF STOPPING POWER muscle and bullets often must pass through bone, air spaces such as lung tissue, wh
Old technology vs. new technology — is one better than the other? gelatin. It was known, academically, that some material might
John Morrison This badge, this shield, this sharp pointed star – haven’t you carried it long enough? Too long? Why carry on? co
in pain. Men like me; not these kids. The motorcade rolls, hissing on the same pavement that soaked up that young cop’s blood.
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Gun vs. rusty knife — who really wins? ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but in the case of a knife attack it could
Which is most lethal? All of them. you grab it. It’s just human nature. Most of the perpetrators of an opportunity attack are u
COP, Copper, So her e’d W e G et This Name, A nyway? W Gary E. Mitrovich I 62 n the history of law enforcement, police officers
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THINGS DA'S HATE Continued from page 38 as he tried to use it on an officer he’d just threatened to kill. Cases like that first
SKILL AT ARMS Continued from page 48 as ten seconds for them to manage a magazine change. Some tried to put the magazine in bac
RESERVES Continued from page 34 reserve officers since before World War II they were not really expected to be police officers.
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NUMBERS Words of gun crimes stories used on ABC, CBS and NBC in 2001. INSIDERRUMINATIONS INSIDERRUMINATIONS Continued from page
DAVE DOUGLAS INSIDER RUMINATIONS Even after two years on the bomb squad I still had all my fingers. I ANOTHER COP MAGAZINE — HAR