A couple of weeks ago our sheriff’s department accomplished something very important that didn’t make any headlines or prompt any local discussion in the general public or on the street. Yet the accomplishment was certainly an important step in providing efficient and professional law enforcement services to the citizens of Richland County. [Read more…]

In most every job in America there is jargon, codes, abbreviations, lingo or acronyms used to make complicated and non-complicated ideas or concepts more manageable and easily identified during communication. [Read more…]

Recently, after the Super Bowl as I was watching the post game interviews I was struck by how Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers responded to a question about how cool and calm he seemed in the biggest game of his career so far. He calmly and confidently replied that he works hard during the week in practice, pays particularly close attention to details in film study and takes his responsibility as a leader on the team very seriously as seriously as anyone on the team. He said it is this preparation and commitment to his teammates that gives him the confidence that he will perform well in the game. [Read more…]

While watching the end of the super bowl last week one of the announcers commented the “off season” started at the end of the game. This reminded me of the times I am asked, usually in January and February when we are all waking up to below zero temperatures, if we in law enforcement are in a “slow time” or “off season” so to speak. [Read more…]