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Tim Dees on Law Enforcement on December 29th, 2006
Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
The IACP has requested our president to create a national crime commission, so that we may have a unified crime control strategy. This isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but it has been tried before. If such a commission is formed, my bet is that the recommendations they produce won’t vary a lot from the previous entity, either. The problem isn’t in the commission or the recommendations. Rather, the problem is in what is done with the recommendations afterward.
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Tim Dees on Law Enforcement on December 25th, 2006
Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
This is a line from a song in a movie made when I was a very small person, and the movie was based on a Broadway play that had nothing to do with police work (it was about baseball). But it’s also true for anyone that needs to survive when their life seems to be circling the drain. Some cops’ lives are like that, but it’s not a new condition.
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Tim Dees on Law Enforcement on December 15th, 2006
Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
When agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a number of Swift meat packing plants in the Midwest on December 12, there was an outcry of grief from some factions. Advocates of the people arrested, and of their families that were broken up by the unexpected jailing of the breadwinners, bemoaned the social impact that this action had on innocents, mostly children, that had done nothing wrong. The effect of criminal behavior on children is always a heartbreaker, both while the criminal enterprise is ongoing and when the cops catch up with the bad guys. Even so, that’s not much of a justification to ignore the criminality. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tim Dees on Law Enforcement on December 8th, 2006
Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
In a story that I am relieved to say did not appear on Officer.com, several retread celebrities have been sworn in as reserve officers of the Muncie, IN Police Department. CBS is entrenching itself as the premier source of misinformation about law enforcement with a new reality program called Armed & Famous, which will debut at some date when I hope I am out of the country or in a coma. This new show follows the highly successful CSI franchise, where the world has learned that DNA is routinely extracted from a discarded cigarette butt, analyzed in less time than it takes to plug the latest remedy for erectile dysfunction, and the suspect associated with the DNA located and arrested by people who aren’t even cops, and who only work one case at a time. Hey, if you saw it on TV, it must be true.
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