Month: June 2018

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder

Over on our Quality Policing podcast, Nick Selby and I hit the road and interview Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder Nassau County, if you don’t know, is the closer of two counties on Long Island outside of New York City. It’s largely a low-crime suburban community but has been in the news lately because…
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QPP 29: Interview with Patrick Ryder, Nassau County Police Department

As you may have seen on Twitter, Peter and Nick took a road trip about 45 minutes east of New York City to beautiful Mineola, New York, which just happens to be the county seat of Nassau County and home to the Nassau County Police Department, which is America’s 13th (might be down to 18th)…
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Suddenly It Became His Job

Well done, Officer Rogers! “An officer was actually on this block on another call and actually heard the shots being fired, said T.J. Smith, Baltimore City Police Spokesman. “That officer gave pursuit.” How often does that happen? And what exactly happened? An edited and shortened version of the bodycam footage had been acquired by WMAR,…
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