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It is human nature to seek acclaim and recognition. Given the choice, most people would rather be well known and respected than an obscure outsider who is unimportant and ignored. Typically, this basic need is satisfied in socially acceptable ways. Some people excel in school, sports, or the arts. Others may perceive themselves as being a really good parent or spouse. Still others strive to be outstanding employees or civic leaders. There are individuals, however, who are unable to satisfy this basic human drive through socially acceptable behavior (or have an insatiable need to prove their superiority). Some of them become esteem motivated offenders. Most crimes make sense to the average person. A man loses his job and is threatened with eviction, so he robs a convenience store to pay his rent. Another man kills his wife during a heated argument. While we know that these acts are illegal and wrong, at least the motives are understandable. This is often not the case with esteem motivated crimes, which include a wide range of behavior ranging from false claims of rape and con games to sexual molestation, product tampering and arson.
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 by Dan Danaher
Reprinted from The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA)
In today's violent society we are losing officers at an alarming rate. Within the past few years we have seen officers killed while responding to , entering, or searching a structure: places like Pittsburgh, Detroit , Oakland and San Diego to name a few. These incidents varied from domestic disturbances, suspicious persons, barricaded gunmen, to warrant service. These are the types of standard calls that officers answer every day and yet we continue to lose officers. There is no way we can eliminate casualties in such a dangerous and unpredictable occupation, but with the use of better tactics and teamwork we can minimize how many casualties we take.
If you were to ask average officers to perform an entry and subsequent search of a structure, you would probably witness a dynamic entry at the breach point. There would more than likely be little if any coordination between the officers on where and how to proceed. Team movements may be reduced to two officers entering individual rooms, digging their cornersand then traversing the perimeter of the room until return back to the entry point, or next opening. If a suspect is encountered, both officers tend to become fixated on the suspect and leave themselves vulnerable to attack from unforeseen suspects. This non-methodical type of a search is characteristic of law enforcement officers across the country. It may work 98% of the time against an adversary whose intent is to evade detection or capture, but who lacks the will to go the full measure and kill a police officer in order to escape. The question is this; do we train for the 98% who are unlikely to do us harm, or the 2% who are more than willing to kill us at the first opportunity? .
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By Derrick D. Bartlett
Reprinted from The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA)
Your shift has been quiet to the point of being boring. You're driving around, thinking about what you want to do on your days off, and watching the minutes tick by, one at a time.
The alert tone snaps you out of your driving trance. Accident with injuries,is broadcast, and you realize the address is only a few blocks away, so you answer up to take the call. You pull up to a stop sign along the way. You stop; look left, right, and then left once again. All clear, you start to pull out into the intersection. The sound of a motorcycle slamming broadside into your patrol car sounds like an explosion. You drive a car every day, both on the job and in your personal life. You know the rules of the road, and you know there is a need to yield to oncoming traffic. How could you not see a motorcycle coming straight toward you? You and your partner have been dispatched to another domestic. A husband and wife have been going at it all evening, and one of the neighbors finally called it in. While in route, Dispatch updates the call, advising the wife has now called, claiming her husband has threatened to kill her. He can be heard in the background yelling obscenities. You anticipate the worst now, and pick up the pace.
You arrive on the scene and, as you start toward the front door, a female comes out. You can't quite make out what she's yelling, but she is very animated and is pointing back at the door. The sound of the screen door draws your attention in the direction of an agitated male descending the stairs and heading your way. He, too, is yelling and waving his arms. But in his right hand, you see a dark object. Almost simultaneously, you have his full attention, and he has yours. You watch as his hand swings up, and points at your face. You instinctively move left to the cover of a tree and draw your sidearm. You yell to him, Drop your weapon, now! He pauses briefly, but doesn't drop the object. You press the trigger, once, twice, three times, and you see the male stagger, and then fall sideways.
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Reprinted from WWW.PATC.COM
Rental Cars, Unauthorized Drivers and the 4th Amendment
November 2011
by Brian S. Batterton, Attorney
©2011 Brian S. Batterton, Attorney, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com)
On March 16, 2011, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided United States v. Kennedy [i], which addressed the issue of whether a person who is not listed on a car rental agreement, and is therefore an unauthorized driver, possesses a reasonable expectation of privacy in the car such that they can object to a search of the car. The facts of Kennedy, taken directly from the case are as follows:
Following the arrest of two minors in connection with stolen firearms, Detective Quinn of the Coatesville City Police Department received information indicating that some of those firearms had been sold for money and drugs at a home on First Avenue to a man known as "Tex" and later identified as defendant Kennedy. Police subsequently obtained a warrant and searched the home on First Avenue, where they found guns, drugs, and personal effects belonging to Kennedy. A federal warrant was issued for Kennedy's arrest on January 18, 2006.
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