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  • Police sergeant reviewing reports while an officer sits across the desk, illustrating police supervision and sergeant accountability.
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    The officer screwed up. Now tell me what his sergeant knew.

    When a police officer screws up, the officer owns it. If he violated policy, used bad judgment, lied, mistreated somebody, failed to do the job, or made a decision he should’ve known better than to make, supervision shouldn’t become a way to explain that away. But once I understand what the officer did, I want…

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  • Police officer seated across from an investigator during an Internal Affairs investigation
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    If good cops fear Internal Affairs and bad cops don’t, you have an IA problem

    When I first became a cop in 1997, I was told that if I wasn’t getting complained on, that probably meant I wasn’t putting in the work. There was some truth to that. If you’re making traffic stops, arresting people, writing tickets, breaking up fights, and telling people things they don’t want to hear, somebody…

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Michael Saad is a law enforcement veteran whose career has taken him around the world and eventually back to where it started.

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