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  • A police officer talks with four people beside a black Chevrolet Tahoe at a crowded outdoor field party at night.
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    Twenty years of experience or one year repeated twenty times?

    There’s an old saying about having twenty years of experience versus having one year of experience twenty times. I’ve always thought that was a pretty good way of looking at it, particularly in law enforcement. I’ve known officers who could tell you exactly how many years, months, and days they’d been on the job. They’d…

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  • Experienced police supervisor and younger officer reviewing a briefing manual together.
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    Experience is valuable, but habit is not the same thing.

    If somebody has been doing the job for twenty years, I expect them to know things a new officer simply hasn’t had time to learn yet. They’ve seen calls go sideways, watched people react under pressure, learned which details matter, and probably made enough mistakes of their own to recognize a few before they happen…

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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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