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Lawmakers are looking at ways to sweeten troopers’ retirement benefits, as well as trying to coax more experienced troopers near retirement to stay
The department is so short staffed that it has temporarily disbanded its traffic division and started rotating one detective per week to work a patrol shift
One lawyer who has advised police leaders in the state for decades says he expects unions to put up a fight the first time a chief tries to fire an employee for smoking pot off the clock
The overwhelming majority of ambush murders of our coppers have occurred when the LEO was alone
The Denver Sheriff Department will pay $10K and change its hiring practices after the DOJ found it broke the law by excluding job candidates who were not U.S. citizens
The officer was suspended with pay after he was seen driving a pickup with the flag near a group protesting the election of Donald Trump
Departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits, like education and prior drug use, to try to attract more people to their ranks
The FBI hosted a Facebook live interview with two special agents who have prior military service
Police departments need your courage, decisiveness and judgment
Even the deep-in-the-weeds political analysts are befuddled at the outcome of this election, so it’s no small thing to offer predictions, but let’s give it a shot
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