Highlights Should policing or corrections be like military service with a defined period of enlistment and benefits? More officers are dying by suicide than by…
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Police-Initiated Contacts Fall By 8 million
Highlights There are significant drops in police-initiated public contacts. Every form of police-initiated traffic and criminal stops (including arrests) fell considerably. Regardless of demographics, the…
View More Police-Initiated Contacts Fall By 8 millionAmerican Confidence in Law Enforcement Very High
Highlights Per Gallup, 85 percent of Americans either have a great deal or some confidence in law enforcement. The media and Congress are at the…
View More American Confidence in Law Enforcement Very HighThe Overwhelming Number of Police Shootings Involve Armed Suspects
Observations The vast majority of police officers have never fired their guns. The overwhelming number of police shootings involve armed suspects. Author Leonard Adam…
View More The Overwhelming Number of Police Shootings Involve Armed SuspectsRate of Police Officers Decreases By 11 Percent
Introduction The increase in full-time law enforcement officers does not keep pace with the growth in population (8 percent versus 21 percent). The rate of…
View More Rate of Police Officers Decreases By 11 PercentWe Demand That Cops Be Warriors
Observations If the public demands quick resolutions to school and mass shootings or acts of terrorism, they are also insisting on military training and equipment.…
View More We Demand That Cops Be WarriorsThe Media Is Not Our Enemy
Observations Regardless as to your feelings about media relations and the justice system, reporters will let you influence them if you are seen as knowledgeable…
View More The Media Is Not Our EnemyCops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync Challenge
Observations We’re not just talking about a couple thousand views, police lip sync videos are getting tens of thousands and in the case of Norfolk,…
View More Cops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync ChallengeAmerican Police-The World’s Most Trusted Per Gallup
Observations Gallup’s 2018 Global Law and Order report state that US and Canadian police are the world’s most trusted law enforcement officers. There are bad cops…
View More American Police-The World’s Most Trusted Per GallupDo You Trust Cops? Do Cops Trust You?
Question Do you trust cops? According to the most recent Gallup survey, you do. Do cops trust you? According to the data below, they have…
View More Do You Trust Cops? Do Cops Trust You?Police-Justice Public Relations Suck
Observations Within law enforcement and the overall justice system, we are our own worst enemies through a lack of aggressive media and public relations. My…
View More Police-Justice Public Relations SuckCops, Violence, Stress and PTSD
Police Motorcycles Observations If society wants us to have compassion and understanding for people in high crime communities affected by violence, or those vicariously experiencing school…
View More Cops, Violence, Stress and PTSDWhat Happens When We Run Out of Cops?
Police Officers Observations When it comes to crime, violence and citizen perceptions, police recruitment and retention may be one of the most important problems facing…
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Esquire: Just As Every Cop Is A Criminal
“Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinner’s saints,” The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking…
View More Esquire: Just As Every Cop Is A CriminalHigh Crime Residents Want More Cops-Gallup
Observations A majority of fragile-community residents (54%) say they would like the police to spend more time in their community, while just 5% say they…
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Your Spokesperson Can Save Your Butt
Observations To defend an agency, you have to be honest. You have to be helpful. You have to be knowledgeable. You have to available.…
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Community Leader-Bring Back The Cops!
Observations Will cops return to proactive policing? Is community support really there? Can trust be rebuilt? Why aren’t communities taking responsibility for their own safety?…
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Police Officer Deaths Decrease-Why?
Summary When you have 20 to 40 percent of Americans worried about street crime, and 65 percent concerned about cybercrime, it explains a lot as…
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Technology and Law Enforcement-New DOJ Report
Observations Technology has not had a game-changing impact on policing in terms of dramatically altering the philosophies and strategies used for preventing crime, responding…
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Are Cops Holding Back? National Arrests Decrease for Most Categories
Observations Many of us from the former director of the FBI to data from Pew to research institutions to national law enforcement organizations suggest that the increase…
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