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Chief Kenny Miller discusses Polis’s T3 training.
Posted on September 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Chief Kenny Miller, of the Petersburg Police Department (VA) discusses Polis’s “Tact, Tactics, and Trust” training as part of a broad intervention to lower violent crime in Petersburg. Watch his press conference with ABC8 news here. — Brian Lande
Use of Force Policy Training featured in Chicago Sun Tims
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
Polis basic Use of Force Policy training for Chicago Police Department featured in Chicago Sun-Times. —Brian Lande
Chicago’s ABC7 features Polis Solutions’s Training
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
http://http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=2440451 Polis’s training has been featured in Chicago ABC7’s coverage of Chicago Police Department’s new Use of Force Policy Training. Although the segment does not mention Polis Solutions by name the piece describes the training, “Officers watched video of real situations outside of Chicago, wrote down impressions, actions at several stages of the scene, then […]
Training Police For Counterterrorism
Posted on March 5, 2011 2 Comments
Patrol officers should be wary of counter-terrorism training. The article “How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam” from The Washington Monthly, provides insight into how poor training makes it through the cracks.
Posted on June 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
City Room: Police Surveillance Records May Stay Secret, Judges Say By By AL BAKER Published: June 9, 2010 A panel of federal judges rules that New York City need not release documents concerning police surveillance related to the 2004 Republican National Convention. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/police-surveillance-records-may-stay-secret-judges-say/
Supreme Court Miranda Decision Shifts Police Burden – TIME
Posted on June 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
The supreme court recently ruled that invocation of Miranda rights must be done explicitly. While the author of the above article sees this is odd, I find it consistent. After all, to waive one’s rights this must be done through explicit articulation. Why shouldn’t invocation abide by the same linguistic rules? What this comes down to, I think, is that the Supreme Court sees Miranda as a Wittgensteinian Language Game in which there are rules of conduct for what make certain utterances socially meaningful.
The author also takes at face value how Miranda works without looking at how confessions and statements are actually, and legally, obtained. For example, many suspects explicitly invoke only to make incriminating statements on the way to jail. Miranda was created to protect suspects from getting “the third degree.” The kind of verbal tricks deployed by the detective in the latest Miranda case may be tricky and tap at very human emotions of the suspect, but that is not illegal.
