Archives for April 2013

Can You Help This Reader…?

I get a lot of e-mails from police officers and citizens around the United States. I try to help everyone I can by directing them to a person, organization or other resource if I don’t know the answer. Sometimes, however, I get a question that I am simply unable to answer.

Here is the most recent question I have received:

Hi BlueSheepDog,

I am currently a victim of this and I am unsure as to what to do… I have been completely hacked with.. my memory, me as a whole, body and mind by a cop using neurology and an rpn device.My face was shaking after phone.

Anyone care to take a stab at figuring out what this person is even talking about? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

Continuing Education for Law Enforcement – Part II

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The decision of whether or not to pursue a bachelor’s or a master’s degree is a personal one. “You have to do it for yourself,” advises Paulette Laubsch, DPA, Associate Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. FDU was established in 1942 and is New Jersey’s largest private university with students worldwide.

As discussed in “Continuing Education for Law Enforcement – Part One,” the benefits of obtaining a college degree are many, but they do not come easily. The time, effort and, likely, the money officers invest will be their own. In Part Two, Police and Security News examines how to make wise investments.

Where Should You Go to School?

Prospective students should do their homework, both on the school and the program they’re interested in, says James Henderson, who chairs the College of Criminal Justice and Security at the University of Phoenix Southern California Campus. University of Phoenix, a private university offering courses online and at more than 100 locations nationwide, was founded in 1976 to provide working adults with higher education options at convenient class times.

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New Guns for 2013

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Ed. note: Thanks to Walt Rauch and Police & Security News for bringing us this roundup of new guns for 2013.

The annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show provides a major venue for manufacturers and dealers to showcase their products and introduce new models. It gets larger each year. The 2013 show, held in Las Vegas in January, boasted 1600 plus vendors, 62,000 plus attendees and some 2000 media types.

As usual, the show’s size makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to take notice of all the products related to firearms. Last year, the show’s unusually high demand for small, concealable handguns, coupled with a noticeable increase in AR-based rifles, was dismissed by some as an outlier – a onetime reaction to the Presidential election. If so, the “reaction” has gotten even stronger for those rifle and handgun types, driven by the possible government intervention in the sale and possession of such rifles and standard magazines for both rifles and handguns.

The increase in demand for ammunition for these firearms has added to the ammunition back orders. One anecdotal example has a bulk buyer for 5.56 NATO and 9x19mm training ammo being quoted a delivery date of “sometime in 2014.”

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