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A picture of your driver’s license is not a digital driver’s license
You get pulled over and realize you don’t have your driver’s license with you. But you’ve got a picture of it saved on your phone, so you figure that should be good enough. After all,…
When human review becomes a rubber stamp
I disagree with a lot of what comes out of California’s legislature. Some of their laws seem to create solutions for problems that don’t necessarily exist. But every now and then, they get something right,…
Sometimes quitting is the responsible career decision
Most advice about when to quit a job is really advice about grit, and in law enforcement there’s even more pressure to stick it out because of everything it took…
Choosing a police chief should be more than a resume and an interview
A sergeant candidate may have to meet minimum qualifications, take a written exam, sit through a structured interview, complete an assessment, compete against other candidates, and live with a scoring system somebody can point to…
The standard you ignore becomes the standard you accept
One of the easiest ways to lower a standard is to do nothing. I don’t have to change a policy or announce a new rule. I can just see the same problem enough times and keep walking past it. Eventually, everybody figures out that whatever the written rule says, this is what we actually accept….
