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  5 quotes police leaders can use to increase officer safety and departmental success

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  Follow the advice in these five quotes to enhance leadership of your troops and improve relationships in your community

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  Police hiring standards: Raise them or lower them?

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  Chicago and other cities are contemplating lowering police hiring standards in answer to the Obama administration’s request

• Don’t destroy your career: The Brady list and the ruinous impact of a lie

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  The underlying offense being lied about is oftentimes less serious than the covering lie which results in a worse disciplinary penalty

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  Addressing the Chicago oversight board president’s recommendation about citizen complaints

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  Police Board President Lori Lightfoot wants to make it completely OK to lie in a complaint against a Chicago police officer

• Entering the 'dark side': Becoming an internal affairs investigator

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  Exposure to IA will allow a cop to better understand the personnel system, agendas of some citizens, attitudes and mindset of officers, and the thought process of managers

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  The thin blue line: A symbol of heroism, not corruption

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  The thin blue line represents a stance that we are all in this together as protectors of our citizens. The alternative interpretation is just noise

• Changing the police culture: An IA investigator's perspective

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  Before a cultural change can take place, both police leadership and the rank and file must recognize one is needed

• Integrity management: 5 keys to weeding out bad cops

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  If we tell ourselves an officer can falsify his location for a sexual liaison but would never lie in a report, we are lying to ourselves

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  Betrayal: How I reconcile the Joe Gliniewicz I knew with the one I didn't

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  People felt they knew Joe well, but of course they didn’t know the Joe that we are hearing about now

• Rapid Response: GI Joe suicide scandal gives public "one more reason to hate us"

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  When one cop is found out to be dirty, it besmirches the badge for the 99.99 percent of officers out there doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons

• 3 trials later, a cop is vindicated for off-duty shooting

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  Supervisory Special Agent Art Gonzales had to use deadly force against his estranged wife to save his own life — the legal battle to follow would be almost as difficult as the incident itself

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  TASER’s Axon Fleet brings affordable in-car video solution to police

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  Leveraging massive economies of scale for back-end storage and software updating, new in-car video hardware is far more affordable than police agencies are presently accustomed to

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  Rapid Response: Chief's 'early retirement' offers reminders about cops and free speech

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  The courts have held that off-duty conduct will not be protected if the agency can prove a nexus between the offending conduct and the officer’s employment

• 6 considerations for cops stuck in a hostile workplace

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  We need to go deeper into this issue — to not just address the existence of bullying — but to offer real suggestions to combat it at the source

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  RISE Award nominee: New chief turns around troubled department, builds trust

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  Chief Eric Blanchard immediately demonstrated a commitment to transparency and accountability that earned the trust of his officers and his communty

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