Writers’ Police Academy 2016 – recap 3 Real Cops for Writers

The next session I attended was Real Cops for Real Writers: “The Psychology of Cops” given by Paul Smith and Ted (his PTSD service dog).

You can find my other recaps by clicking here for part 1; here for part 2. My photo gallery is here. And I have an overview of the entire conference at Lee Lofland’s Graveyard Shift blog today.

Before Smith began, he took Ted’s harness off, which signaled the dog was “off duty” at which point he roamed the classroom, meeting all the attendees.

Early in his...