In this episode, Peter and Nick announce the big change that Nick mentioned a couple of episodes ago: this is Nick’s last episode. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15540615 Now, now, it’s not that they had a spat (which is a good thing, since they are now close-by neighbors), but rather that Nick has taken a new job at…
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Over Memorial Day, police were forced to combat hundreds of marauding youths who were terrorizing pedestrians and shoppers on Chicago’s chic Miracle Mile. The decisions made by officers were…creative. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15295633 Peter had been looking for ways to discuss depolicing in Chicago in general, and then this gave him the perfect opportunity. This episode is…
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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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In November, 2017, Peter and Nick wrote this: In Baltimore, Officer Angel Villaronga shows how it can be done, by talking a man armed with a knife into handing over the bladed weapon and surrendering peacefully. Peter is happy some good news is coming from his former department, for a change. Peter and Nick talk about this…
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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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