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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Nick & Peter discuss the February 14, 2018, mass shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the law enforcement response to it. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14138410 This podcast covers reports of several Broward County deputies who did not run in and engage the shooter, active shooter training. Note that at the time…
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80 days around the world, we’ll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow’s ending. Time – we’ll fight against the time, and we’ll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won’t say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around…
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The first Quality Policing Podcast of the new year is up. Peter and Nick begin in (where else?) Baltimore, discussing the trial of detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The two are accused of a range of criminal activities, including robbing drug dealers, and carrying pellet…
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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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Yesterday the verdict came out. I wrote this op-ed for the Washington Post: This current scandal is more than a case of a few bad apples, though bad apples they were. These officers acted with impunity until the FBI caught wind of their actions through an unrelated criminal investigation in Pennsylvania. A specialized police unit…
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The first Quality Policing Podcast of the new year is up. Peter and Nick begin in (where else?) Baltimore, discussing the trial of detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The two are accused of a range of criminal activities, including robbing drug dealers, and carrying pellet…
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Justin Fenton of the Baltimore Sun has tweeted a crazy accountof testimony in today’s trial of corrupt Baltimore cops. Crazy testimony in federal court just now by former Detective Maurice Ward, outlining illegal tactics used by Gun Trace Task Force Officers … They’d regularly drive fast at a larger group of people, slam brakes and…
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Nick Selby and I talk about all this and more on our latest Quality Policing Podcast. Here’s the bad shooting we discuss. It’s not much in the news because there’s no racial angle to it. The officer was criminally charged today. I would say this might be third worst shooting of all time (Walter Scott…
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On K-9s biting and other dog news (0:40). (9:00) Cops in Oklahoma City come across a suicidal man and kill him. (16:00) Good data on use of force from Minneapolis. (21:30) Undercover cops in the Detroit fight each other. (23:20) Bridgeport PD can’t use the word police. (27:00) Update on Suiter investigation, or lack thereof.…
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