Terrence P. Dwyer, Esq.

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• Modernizing police training: The imperative for academies to adapt or face legal consequences

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  Rising incidents of recruit injuries and deaths highlight need for training reforms

• Q&A: Exploring the evolution, importance and challenges of information sharing in law enforcement

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  Police1 columnist Terry Dwyer addresses key considerations around the collection and dissemination of information

• A primer on mutual aid agreements: A few notes for command and field personnel

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  It is worthwhile for police administrators to periodically review these agreements and for individual officers to have read and understood their roles in these efforts

• What police need to know about the statutory duty to intervene

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  Two Colorado prosecutions of officers for failing to intervene illustrate what makes a prosecutable case

• Caveat employer: Police hiring from a thinning herd

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  Municipalities must keep in mind that negligent hiring claims are a viable means for injured plaintiffs to seek compensation

• The special relationship exception and liability

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  The presence of officers at a scene where two EMS workers interacted with a patient who subsequently died necessitates a discussion about the special relationship exception to municipal liability

• Pre-seizure conduct in use of force cases

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  This is a complicated area of law that deserves greater treatment in training curricula

• SCOTUS year in review: Miranda warnings, malicious prosecutions and civil rights claims

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  There were several noteworthy cases from the past term pertaining to law enforcement officer liability for alleged constitutional violations

• Analyzing the stop and frisk: 3 areas where police practice falters

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  The continuing validity and constitutionality of stop and frisk depends on lawful execution of the practice

• What can law enforcement expect from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

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  Justice Jackson's district court opinions and orders provide an example of her jurisprudential work related to law enforcement

• Falsified facts by any other name are still false

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  Police officers can’t risk getting caught up in either politics or misguided social experiments

• SCOTUS year in review: Decisions on qualified immunity and Fourth Amendment seizures

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  In 2021 the Supreme Court affirmed long-standing truisms that protect the home and that qualified immunity review is not a shield against unconstitutional conduct

• The high cost and toll of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in law enforcement: Part 2

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  There are four big mistakes that seem to be endemic to any sexual harassment, sexual assault, or gender discrimination case

• The high cost and toll of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in law enforcement: Part 1

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  A review of media-reported cases involving sexual harassment of female police officers by male officers from 2000-2019

• First Amendment associative rights and LE employment

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  Case law provides public employers with precedent to dismiss employees whose personal associations are deemed antagonistic to the employer’s mission and integrity

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