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| By Safe Call Now® Advisory Board Member -Gordon Graham |
Gordon Graham here and thanks for taking the time to read this rambling on important
things going on in the world of public safety in general and law enforcement in
particular. If you have been to any of my live programs over the last 35 years,
you know my focus in life is getting more and more people to understand the
value of real risk management. While there are many definitions for risk
management, I like the simple approach: What can go wrong and what can I do to
prevent this from going wrong?
With the
above in mind I am asking you to do what I do every morning. One of the first
websites I visit is www.policemisconduct.net.
This site is sponsored by The Cato Institute and they collect information daily
on some of the things going wrong in law enforcement organizations around the
U.S.
When you
read this, I am asking you to ask this question: What control measures do we
have in place to assure that this never happens to anyone in our department? As
I have read these news stories for quite some time, I continually ask questions
like the following: What control measures do we have in place to prevent patrol
cars from being stolen on traffic stops? What control measures do we have in
place to prevent cops from pulling out their pistol when they wanted to use the
TASER? What control measures do we have in place to prevent this quadruple
fatal at the end of a pursuit?
