The question of whether or not the legal standard established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967) is still relevant to law enforcement administrative investigations is a legitimate one. Given the recent changes [...]
During the first five (5) of my twenty-six years of service in the department it was common practice to use the restraint chair to control violent, self-destructive, or combative inmates. The restraint chair has not been a control method used [...]
The traditional hard restraint chair has been used since the beginning of my career at the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office in 2013. The purpose of the restraint chair is to protect combative and physically non-compliant inmates from themselves and staff. [...]
Imagine you respond to an Officer assistance call and you find an inmate bleeding from his scrotum. As you the supervisor evaluate the situation you are informed the inmate used a toenail to cut then rip open his scrotum. The [...]
As more and more departments struggle with the increased number of “outside the workplace” issues that affect a unit, it is paramount to tackle each one head on. Domestic misconduct can run the gambit of infidelity all the way to [...]
Throughout the country and around the world, police departments invest time, funding, and expertise to train law enforcement officers in best practices to reduce incidents of domestic misconduct. On the very onset the psychological screening and background investigations of the [...]
Throughout the country and around the world, police departments invest time, funding, and expertise to train law enforcement officers in best practices to reduce incidents of domestic misconduct. On the very onset the psychological screening and background investigations of the [...]
The spotlight of the O.J. Simpson trial in the 1990’s helped to further pull back the curtain on the problem of domestic abuse in the United States. While the issue is ages old, this incident brought the issue to the [...]
Police departments, specifically their Office of Professional Standards (OPS) or Internal Affairs (IA), should have a set of standards or guidelines when dealing with personnel complaints. Treating every complaint from inception to completion with the same high standards, all while [...]
Civil settlements and jury verdicts occur in police civil misconduct litigation. Should this cost be borne by the police agency? Should the involved police employees be subject to some of this cost? Due to the nature of policing, police departments [...]