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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This was a busy couple of weeks – Nick mentioned the seeming high-volume blip in police officers killed and wounded this year, and Peter mentioned that this blip is statistically not extraordinary. Peter and Nick discuss fatalistic acceptance by younger officers of attacks on officers this year. Listen to “Episode 19: Cops Killed, New Technologies,…
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This is a four-part Extra from Nick Selby, taking a closer look at how Body Worn Cameras have changed policing. We’re dropping all four episodes simultaneously, so you can binge-listen. We’ve also made the whole thing available as a single podcast, for those who don’t want to futz around with individual episodes. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383193 That…
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This Quality Policing Podcast Extra explores some of the best – and the worst – in policing of the mentally ill in America. Episode is here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383198 There are ten times more people with serious mental illnesses in America’s prisons and jails than in state mental hospitals. Some of our nation’s largest psychiatric in-patient clinics…
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DC Appeals Court ruling on StingRay usage; Georgia Tech police shooting; Oklahoma City PD, and officer stabbings in Chula Vista, CA. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383196 The D.C. Court of Appeals agreed in a 2 to 1 ruling that police agencies that use cell-site simulators like Harris Corporation’s StingRay product must obtain a search warrant before use. Peter and…
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