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Ask the Experts: Surviving changes in leadership

Q: Recently, my department has taken on a new chief, and as a result, has begun to lose those senior officers who held it all together. Now I have two very young, and very junior, officers working our Max1 units with no senior staff to show them the way. It makes for a dangerous and scary environment.

What can we do to ease the transition? ... Full Story

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Citing dangers of crowding, Md. officials seek jail expansion


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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. — Two months after county leaders scrapped a planned jail expansion in favor of building more schools, detention center officials and county administrators appeared before the County Council saying the jails are so full they are getting dangerous and need $70.7 million over the next six years to expand.

But county councilmen yesterday were cool to the full three-phase project. They agreed the county jails need more beds, but several balked at the price tag - about $90,000 per bed ... Full Story

Feds inspect troubled Texas jail

"We are hired as officers, in part, based on our ability to use common sense, good judgment and our morality. Those who cannot handle a classroom setting or training with bad language, and who cannot distinguish a joke from serious training, might want to consider a new career. Everyone makes mistakes, but what defines us is how we rise after falling."

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Posted in response to Wa. jail trainer says complaint got him fired

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Peace Story: "They were safer by our presence"
Warriors are, by definition, protectors. Listen to George "Doc" Thompson's wonderful rendition of the necessary "Habit of Mind" that every Peace Warrior should develop in order to truly provide service for others — taken from one who walks the walk ... Full Tip



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