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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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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Peter and Nick are pleased to be joined by Gordon Graham, the co-founder of the law enforcement policy shop Lexipol. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14160044 Gordon had a storied career in law enforcement, which he followed by starting up Lexipol and running Graham Research Consultants. He begins with the observation that police departments can reduce to zero their…
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Mass Shootings are up, no matter how you count them – new data from Mother Jones and Fivethirtyeight. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383187 Our friends at 538 have been writing about mass shootings and it appears that they are up across the board. Peter blames Nick for this phenomenon.