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One of the most damaging things an organization can do to its people is not deny them an opportunity. It is to continually suggest that the opportunity is just ahead if they simply do a little more. Get more experience. Take another class. Develop your leadership skills. Learn another part of the operation. Demonstrate your […]

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Minneapolis – A suspected mass shooter who allegedly killed two people inside a Minneapolis apartment building has been identified as Carlton Johnson II, age 35. Johnson opened fire inside the Loring Towers complex on Wednesday evening, killing two people and wounding six others, police said. According to his social media profiles, Johnson was a content […]

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Minneapolis, MN. – Multiple people, including two police officers, were shot Wednesday evening near the Minneapolis Convention Center. The City of Minneapolis posted on social media that the Minneapolis Police Department is in the area of 15 East Grant Street in downtown Minneapolis and urged people to avoid the area. According to an alert sent […]

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Attorney Chris Madel joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about the prosecution of Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan — and how a grand jury indictment was ignored in his case and other prosecutions of police officers in the state. The latest petition in the case of Derek Chauvin, one of the four officers […]

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Sacramento, California: State lawmakers have passed a California shock glove ban and sent it to Governor Gavin Newsom, who has until September 30th to sign or veto it. The measure would block officers from wearing devices capable of delivering an electric shock and bar California police agencies from spending state funds to buy them. According […]

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Comanche County, Oklahoma: A federal wildlife officer identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as David Taylor died on August 29 while evacuating residents ahead of the Railroad South Fire in Comanche County, the agency said. Officials said the federal wildlife officer was going door to door with local emergency crews when contact with […]

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San Antonio, Texas: An 18-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday after a San Antonio police shooting that officers say began when a driver refused to stop and ended when a passenger reached for a firearm during a physical fight with an officer. Police said the shooting happened around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday near South San […]

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STATEMENT OF RECORD On August 21, 2026, I spent approximately three hours at the NYPD’s 47th Precinct in the Bronx, beginning at approximately 3 p.m. Serving the northern portion of the Bronx, the 47th Precinct encompasses Woodlawn, Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Baychester, Edenwald, Olinville, Fishbay and Woodlawn Cemetery—communities whose police officers carry the daily responsibility of protecting […]

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Warm Springs, Georgia –  A Warm Springs officer killed while sitting in his patrol car has been identified by his department as Chris Fisher, who was fatally shot late Tuesday night in the Meriwether County city. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Fisher had just completed an unrelated traffic stop when he was attacked. According […]

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Shawnee, Oklahoma: An Oklahoma baseball coach knife confrontation ended with a suspect in custody and a team of teenage players unharmed after their coach stepped between them and an armed man at a hotel. Cameron High School coach Kevin Lomon, a former major league pitcher, said he did not have much time to think when […]

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LAW OFFICER SPECIAL TWO-PART FEATURE SERIES (Part I of II) VISION  This two-part Law Officer feature represents the culmination of seventy published articles for Law Officer exploring ethical leadership, human dignity, constitutional service, emotional fortitude, officer wellness, resilience, public trust, and the defining challenges of 21st-century policing. Rather than introducing a new direction, The Reawakening […]

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The best police recruiting strategies are not the ones that look good in a press release. They are the ones that put qualified bodies in academy seats. If your agency is still losing candidates to a slow, confusing hiring process, you already know the problem. You run a campaign, applications trickle in, and by the […]

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STATEMENT OF RECORD On August 13, 2026, Vincent J. Bove, NYPD Honorary Law Enforcement Motivational Speaker, returned to the NYPD’s 75th Precinct in Brooklyn to continue an initiative centered on affirmation, gratitude, ethical leadership, morale, emotional fortitude, American ideals, and the nobility of police service. The 75th Precinct serves East New York and Cypress Hills, […]

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Today, few topics are being discussed with such rare and robust bipartisan consensus and formidable misinformation as Flock Safety surveillance cameras. The hot topics are the surveillance and privacy concerns related to privately owned cameras and the collection and storage of data with no criminal predicate. Nearly daily we are hearing stories of police officers […]

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Of all the “usual and routine calls for service” that any cop goes to, one of the most often complained about was the Domestic Violence assignment.  Domestic Violence was almost always a no-win situation that had the even more downside of being very physically dangerous to all of those unlucky enough to be involved. A […]

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Statement of Record On July 31, 2026, at the invitation of Captain Julieann Stapleton, Commanding Officer of the NYPD’s 49th Precinct in the Bronx, and through the outstanding coordination of Sergeant Matthew Feigenbaum, I had the privilege of addressing three roll calls. Throughout the afternoon, those presentations, together with conversations throughout the command, afforded me […]

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A Leadership Framework from the Writings of Vincent J. Bove for Law Officer Part VI of a Six-Part Series Presented during the commemoration year of the 250th anniversary of American independence (1776–2026), and in anticipation of the 25th anniversary remembrance of September 11, 2001—recognizing the enduring responsibilities of leadership, constitutional service, sacrifice, public trust, and […]

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Flock Safety was founded in 2017 by Garrett Langley, Matt Feury, and Paige Todd following an unsolved property crime in Atlanta, Georgia. Traditional home security cameras captured video footage of the incident, but law enforcement lacked actionable evidence – specifically, vehicle identifying markers – necessary to identify a suspect. Recognizing a market gap, the co-founders […]

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Statement of Record On July 23, 2026, I returned to the New York City Police Department’s 46th Precinct in the Bronx for what became nearly five hours of presentations and conversations with more than 125 members of the Department. What began as a single roll call expanded into four separate presentations involving newly graduated police […]

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A Leadership Framework from the Writings of Vincent J. Bove for Law Officer Part V of VI — The American Standard Presented during the commemoration year of the 250th anniversary of American independence (1776–2026). Statement of Record The turbulence of the Civil Rights era, the Vietnam generation, urban unrest, institutional distrust, and the struggle for […]

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