Expert Columnists & Contributors
To fulfill our editorial mission to deliver the most comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the critical issues impacting law enforcement, the Police1 columnist roster features subject matter experts from each discipline within the policing profession.
Police1 columnists provide unique, on-the-job insights gathered from decades of experience working in many different types of departments and agencies across the country.
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RECENT EXPERT ARTICLES
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The skills that keep you steady on duty can leave you feeling exposed with the people you love
With 300,000 fans expected to attend, officials emphasize coordinated crowd safety operations on the Las Vegas Strip
Large-scale security planning requires redundancy, repetition and a culture of readiness
A growing trend has officers driving with emergency lights on during routine patrol. Critics say it confuses the public, kills tactics and lacks any data to support it. What do you think?
Across the country, officers doing identical work face drastically different retirement and disability protections depending on where they serve
A chief’s poem captures the quiet sacrifice of the officers who spend Thanksgiving on duty