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Asking questions is one of the first language skills a child develops. However, almost all of our question asking skills are developed under the assumption that the person answering our question will tell the truth. Consider questions that might be asked around a family's dinner table: "Ryan, do you need a ride home from the dance or are you getting a ride with someone else?"; "Ben, how did your French test go?"; "Mom, Clare didn't call when I was gone, did she?" When there is a low probability of deception, how a question is formulated is relatively unimportant as long as the other person understands what is being asked.
This is not the case when interviewing a suspect, witness or victim who is motivated to withhold information. Under that circumstance, the investigator needs to phrase questions in such a way that the question will not invite deception and, if the person chooses to lie to the question, the question should stimulate behavior symptoms indicative of that fact. Too often, however, investigators formulate interview questions relying on rules learned for asking conversational questions and may be unaware of how important question formulation is in the role of detecting deception. As an example, each of the questions in the preceding paragraph are improperly phrased for detection of deception purposes. This web tip, as well as next month's, will offer basic guidelines with respect to proper formulation of interview questions.
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By David M. Schiff
This article is dedicated to the many officers I've counseled over the past 30 plus years who have experienced degradation of their emotions along with their souls, friends, family, and love of the job. My thanks goes to the wise authors who have distributed their wisdom through their books and training to help many in our profession more safely navigate the path to a healthy and satisfying retirement. They include Massad Ayoob (The Killing Experience), Anthony Stone, Ph.D. (Fitness for Duty), Dr. K. Gilmartin (Emotional Survival), Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (On Combat), Ander-son, Swenson, and Clay (Stress Manage-ment for Law Enforcement Officers), and George Thompson, Ph.D. (Verbal Judo).
Many who enter the law enforcement profession as a uniform patrol officer travel a path through one of the most professionally toxic environments in our country. It is a path on which they will encounter corruption in many forms, change of assignments at the whim of others, intimate experiences with the horrors of life through man's inhumanity to man attacks from vicious criminals and the media, lawsuits and threatened lawsuits from violators they've arrested, and betrayal by their command staff.
Along this path, the new officer generally starts out with an innocent, idealistic dream of being a cop, followed by the thrills of entering and completing the academy and FTO, then the excitement of viola-tor interactions, fights, arrests, and convictions. Then, slowly and insidiously many will descend along a path of losses (not necessarily in the following order) - the loss of non-LEO friends, spouse(s), children, a zest for life almost all that was fun, love of THE JOB, a relationship with their God, a healthy body, pride, money, and finally life (either literally or as a living death).
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By Fernando Figueroa
Terrorism will not go away any-time soon. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says that even winning the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end the "Long War'against violent extremism and the fight against al-Qaeda and other terrorists...(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25943246).
To understand why we can never really win the war on terrorism, we need to step back in time to understand what goes on in the minds of these extremists. In the East, history is not a thing of the past, it's an ongoing event; people of the middle east thrive on history and symbolism. In the Middle East the symbolic is what is most real. In this article you will get a better understanding of the terrorism of today by delving into the past.
Before Islam, the Arab world was in a state called Jahilliyyawhich is an Age of Ignorance
During this period of al Jahilliyah, the social structure of the Arab life, including their political system and religious beliefs and practices, was highly primitive. There was no political unity as they did not have an organized form of government. There were many in the Arab world of that time seeking a way out of chaos to order. During this period they saw and heard the Jews and Christians following their laws, reading their divine book, and having order within their community.
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 Top Ten Politically Correct Police Ranks:
- Caring Officer in Training
- Complaint Taker II
- Enabler I
- Communicator III
- Sensitivity Facilitator
- Leader Follower
- Flagellator II
- Community Punching Bag I
- Hurt Speech Preventer
- Collaborator Leader
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