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400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
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2014
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Police Craft: What Cops Know About Crime, Community and Violence
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2018
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3 editions
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“In many careers, crucial decisions are deliberated in meetings with white boards and breakout sessions. Options are weighed. Exploratory committees are formed. Ideas are mulled over and then discarded. Gourmet coffee is consumed. Perhaps finger sandwiches are ordered from the catering joint down the street. The whole process can take hours, days, weeks.
One of the most crucial decisions you make as a cop is Shoot or Don't Shoot. Given how quickly situations can go all sorts of wrong, you will probably have about a second and a half to deliberate before you make this call. Critics then have a lifetime to pick apart your decision over that coffee and those sandwiches.”
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One of the most crucial decisions you make as a cop is Shoot or Don't Shoot. Given how quickly situations can go all sorts of wrong, you will probably have about a second and a half to deliberate before you make this call. Critics then have a lifetime to pick apart your decision over that coffee and those sandwiches.”
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“The best book ever written about cops is Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by former Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon. The best TV show about cops is The Wire, created by David Simon. You may start to see a theme here. 16”
― 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
― 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
“As the old quote says, anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.”
― 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
― 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
