Sara Schreiber, Officer's Law Enforcement Technology Editor, shares insights and thoughts with the law enforcement community.
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Bombs at the finish line: what’s next?
By Sara Schreiber - Wednesday May 15, 2013T he month of April was precarious to say the least. We as a country are still reeling from the bombing in Boston, the images of chaos and bags filled with runners’ unclaimed belonging at the finish line still fresh in our memories. As of 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, a whopping 70 percent of people surveyed in a Washington Post-ABC News poll said they support the death penalty for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. That discussion may be premature at this point, but a number like 70 percent reflects the collective fury and intolerance we have for this level of violence in the U.S. Men and women in public safety: as if you don’t already have enough to deal with, add terrorist attacks to your list of things to train for. But you already... -
Wanted: A four-legged rehab specialist, must love people
By Sara Schreiber - Tuesday April 16, 2013This month’s cover comes with a good story. Shea Wilson, communications administrator for the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) sent us the photo and wrote: “This is Anthony (a former inmate) and Howard, a St. Bernard who was grossly underweight when he arrived in the program, weighing about 60 pounds. Anthony...recently paroled and adopted the last dog he trained at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern, Ark. Howard found his forever home with a family that had another St. Bernard. He is now a healthy weight and a very happy dog.” Animals have long occupied a four-legged foothold in policing. K-9 units are unmatched when it comes to detecting narcotics, hydrocarbon and cadavers. They dutifully provide that... -
Border Troubles
By Sara Schreiber - Wednesday February 13, 2013It’s easy to get caught up in daily routine and local politics. But sometimes solutions to our everyday dilemmas can be found by simply taking a step back and broadening our viewpoint. The February issue of Law Enforcement Technology magazine delves in to the business of policing across city, state and even international lines. We begin in the U.S. where contributing editor Carole Moore describes the ongoing disconnect between Washington lawmakers and boots-on-the-ground law enforcement efforts when it comes to immigration and border security in this month’s cover story “From sea to shining sea” . Post-9/11, federal, state and local agencies all upped their security efforts—particularly where borders were concerned. More than... -
Flipping potatoes or foiling terrorists
By Sara Schreiber - Tuesday September 4, 2012Before I delve into my first blog on Officer.com, allow me to introduce myself. I am Sara Schreiber and I have the pleasure of working alongside editors Jonathan Kozlowski and Tabatha Wethal on the print team of Law Enforcement Technology and Law Enforcement Products News . Right now I’m reading My Life in France, by Julia Child—a biography that describes an illustrious life which took Child everywhere from the Office of Strategic Services during WWII to classes at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, to finally a television cooking show called The French Chef. (I’m going somewhere with this, I promise). I think one of the funniest, and most poignant scenes from the old show is the one where she goes to flip some type of potato mass and says...
