Molly Wood tests three apps, including the new Carousel by Dropbox, that help you sort and share the overwhelming number of photos on your mobile device. She has reservations about Carousel but that choice does make it to the top of her list. Read more.
Want to keep Facebook and other sites from capturing all your Google searches? Here’s an instructional video that gives you a lot of tips on how to protect your privacy when doing searches on the web. Disconnect Search is one software out there that guarantees your privacy when you search the web. Learn more about […]
Check out these video reviews of 3 new movie releases – “Transcendence,” “Fading Gigolo” and “Manakamana.”
Below is a story that made us wonder if any of the people who read it wondered about the officers who responded to the call and went to help this screaming man who had cut off his penis and then jumped from a balcony. This is the work our police officers do. They worked hard […]
Witnesses, first responders and members of the community at large are at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the worst mass killing in Calgary’s history, a local expert says. The expert is referring to a recent incident where five young people were brutally murdered in front of a group of party […]
If your union or association has the resources, think about producing a video like this one that educates the citizens you serve what you are out there doing 24/7 to keep them safe.
The pensions of millions of Americans are being threatened because of trouble in a part of the retirement world long considered so safe that no one gave it a second thought. The pensions belong to people in multiemployer plans — big pooled investment funds with many sponsoring companies and a union. Multiemployer pensions are not […]
A few days ago we posted a news story about a unique strategy some officers used to show the brass how pissed they were they did not get that transfer. Well today we found the entire video, not just the clips in the TV news report and we think you’ll enjoy watching it. It’s a […]
The Ontario Provincial Police Association has created several YouTube videos that speak to their members and the citizens they serve. Check this one out. “We’re Here for You!” It’s a stroke of PR genius. It might give you some good ideas for your own association.
Focus shifts to making “defined contribution” plans mandatory. The financial crisis and its aftermath prompted every state except Idaho, to slash pensions and/or eliminate defined benefit programs for defined contribution plans. In a study of 32 plans in 15 states representing 65% of participants in its public plans database, the Center for Retirement Research at […]
Watch this Harvard commencement speech by Jon Murad, a sergeant with the NYPD. He was better than Oprah – the keynote speaker at the Harvard graduation 2013. Jon is now assigned to NYPD Headquarters – 1 Police Plaza, NYC. Cops have to get out there and give similar speeches in every forum possible. Best possible […]
It could have played out much differently – shots fired, injured officers, EDP taking his own life. But for these skilled negotiators, the outcome was as good as it gets. Officers Martin Morabe and Matt Lyons started their 10 hour dayshift on April 7 like any other day. What they didn’t know was that they […]
Together Detroit Public Safety Unions call plan “punitive, unfair, and painful.” The Detroit Police Officers Association, the Detroit Fire Fighters Association, the Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association, and the Detroit Police Command Officers Association have formed an alliance to protect their 3,500 members. Together they issued this joint statement. This is important to read. […]
The N.Y.C Detective Investigator’s Association (DIA), the union representing all detectives working for the five District Attorneys’ and Special Narcotics Prosecutor in New York City is coming down hard against the recent firing of a detective investigator in Brooklyn that was based solely on political payback. “All signs point to the fact that newly elected […]
In Canada, three officers who were upset that their transfer requests had been turned down fought back with an interesting tactic. They produced a fictitious movie trailer for the film “Central Cells” which shows three officers on “a quest for freedom” from their cellblock duties. The YouTube video went viral but the department was not […]
In a landmark study of police officers in Buffalo, New York, results find an increased incidence of chronic disease and suicides. The daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and mental health effects. That’s the overall […]
One guy’s take on what life looks like if your job is run by a profit-making company. “L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department” was posted this week by Tom O’Donnell on the The New Yorker Blog. Excerpt below. Click link to read entire piece. It may sound like science fiction but it’s not. I was shooting heroin […]
We’ve posted this two minute video before but we thought you should take a look at it again. You will learn exactly why these well funded groups set up these think tanks who then wine and dine politicians so they can get the laws changed. Laws on your pensions, health care, pay and even your […]
Last week, the House of Representatives in the Florida legislature voted along straight party lines to close the Florida Retirement System to elected officials and top state managers Friday, despite impassioned arguments that Republicans are letting “the wolves of Wall Street” devour the pensions of hundreds of thousands of state and local government employees. Rep. […]
It was only a couple of weeks ago that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed threw in the towel and said he was halting his effort to get a measure on the California ballot that if passed would decimate pensions for public employees. Well guess what? He’s back. Last week Reed announced at the Sacramento Press […]
Submitted by Douglas Rose San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, who has been busy lecturing everybody in the state on how to operate their pension systems, has quite a problem on his hands. Reed’s mismanagement and neglect of a major problem in the San Jose pension systems has cost taxpayers and system members well over $94 […]
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Whoever said, “A few bad apples can bring the whole place down” knew what they were talking about. Here’s one story that certainly reinforces the that notion. According to The Boston Globe, 20 Massachuetts State Troopers are being investigated for theft of overtime pay. Reporters Mark Arsenault, Travis Andersen, and Shelley Murphy write: “In another black […]
When is Police “Use of Force” Justified?
It seems like every law enforcement agency is grappling with changes in use-of-force policies, which are too often implemented by people that are not familiar at all with the complicated, risky, and high-pressure world of law enforcement, especially when it comes to the use of deadly force. The press conference you are about to watch […]
FBI Will Not Investigate Detective’s Homicide
The FBI won’t be taking over an investigation into the homicide of a Baltimore city detective who was slain amid a corruption investigation. Detective Sean Suiter was shot in the head with his own weapon on Nov. 15, a day before he was to testify before a federal grand jury investigating wrongdoing by fellow officers […]
The Madison Police Department in Wisconsin is making some changes to its policies on the use of deadly force. According to an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, the changes come after several law suits against the city were successful with payouts in the millions. “When it comes to the rules our police officers are trained […]
Via the Chicago Tribune: On his first full day as president of Chicago’s largest police union, Officer Kevin Graham appeared at a news conference to address reporters seeking details of his plan for leading the embattled rank-and-file of the police force. With cameras and reporters ready at the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in the […]
No matter how you feel about Donald Trump, this bit from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will leave you laughing.
Deputy Martha Lohnes of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina has responded to some weird 911 calls, but this one takes the cake. Aaliyah Ryan is just two years old. But she knew enough to call 911 when she was having a problem. The dispatcher told Deputy Lohnes that it sounded like a […]
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