“Ways to get money: – Sell drugs / not happening. – Rob people / maybe. – Contract killer / considering. – Just stick to basketball.” Unfortunately, Joel Alonte Travis did not just stick to basketball. He chose to rob. Thankfully, he was arrested for that before he became the killer he considered being. We know […]
Read the first few paragraphs of this announcement and you’ll sense why being a police chief is one of the toughest jobs in America (second only, I think, to being an actual officer on the front lines). Chuck Wexler’s announcement of a new Police Executive Research Forum report on officer-involved critical incidents captures the essence
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I love an origin story. This is ShotSpotter’s. One of the best things about working at SoundThinking (formerly ShotSpotter) is being surrounded by brilliant people. (There are a bunch of them!) Robert Showen, Robert Calhoun, and Ralph Clark are standouts who, along with bold investor Gary Lauder, played a critical role in the company’s history.
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I became a federal employee as a teenager, and stayed one until I retired. The private sector was mysterious to me. Perhaps the single best piece of career advice I got for solving that mystery: Call Adam S. Lee. I knew Adam from his time as a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau
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Subtlety is often lost on me. Maybe it’s because attention to detail isn’t my strongest suit, but I find it helpful when things are pointed out bluntly. Even though I’ve noticed many of the recent attempts at language reform (it’s hard not to; some of them are pretty silly and ham-fisted), I hadn’t noticed the
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One of the best things about being an adjunct law professor is all the bright young future attorneys I meet. What’s even better? Seeing them go on to become practicing lawyers. Today I had lunch with a group of former students who went on to become prosecutors. (And I’ve said before that prosecutors are the
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Police photo arrays aren’t supposed to be like Sesame Street, where “one of these things is not like the others” and there are clues to help you pick which one is different. Instead, the array should be presented in a neutral way that does not suggest the answer. The witness being shown the array should
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