Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
Just when you thought it was safe to come back to the blog because IACP had come and gone…
Actually, this surfaced in the Boston Herald on the last day of the 2006 IACP convention in Boston, which ended last week. The Herald is not regarded as an especially pro-police newspaper, tending to spin any news involving the cops into something negative. Then again, sometimes these things don’t require any spin at all.
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Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
It took me a bit longer to get this final installment posted because the photographs I took at IACP were on the same laptop that I broke, and while I had the originals still on the camera’s memory card, I didn’t have anything to download them to. Well, here we are, back at the office, and I have no more excuses, beyond that it’s really late and I would like to go home.
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Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
I had intended to make this a daily event, but our parent division, the Cygnus Public Safety Group, had their Innovations awards ceremonies last night, and I got elected as the photographer, as someone who knew what they were doing was not available. Then, this morning, I destroyed the display on my faithful laptop computer, so I am limited to doing my computing on borrowed machines, this one in the lobby of the Sheraton. So, if this ends abruptly, it will probably be because the system booted me off. Read the rest of this entry »
Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com
The opening ceremonies for IACP (that’s the International Association of Chiefs of Police) in Boston took place this afternoon. In keeping with tradition, I watched them from a TV monitor in the conference center lobby. If you have ever been to a police conference and attended the opening ceremonies, then you know that they line up more or less as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
