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The best traditions of western society are a framework within which decent people can live good lives. Those traditions are being trashed. But if all the good people stand up for what is right against what's wrong, The West can survive. And dream the dreams we want to dream. Like White Christmases. Etc etc. While this open letter is addressed to one polise sergeant who is the president of one police association, it needs the support of many more people than him to succeed. May our God bless us all.

The Associated Press is asking whether our police will change the way they deliver service to the people of the cities and towns they patrol. The answer is a definite Yes and No. Yes they will; but No; those who will be watching won’t perceive the difference. Police work requires the continual processing of data drawn from your surroundings. What a police officer sees and does not see is far more subjective than those who have never done a tour in a radio car can possibly imagine. As a patrol officer you process information constantly and on some days make...

Excerpt from Article Port Chester police have been turned away by Westchester County officials after detectives asked for a lab test on what they believe is a bottle of acid, while the county blames budget cuts for refusing a service relied upon by police departments throughout Westchester. ******************* Detectives in Port Chester sent a bottle labeled “ACID” to the county after a bizarre Thanksgiving-day incident in which 63-year-old Jeffrey Borsk of Greenwich showed up at a Regent Street home with the bottle and threatened to throw it on a young girl who answered the door unless she gave him a...

Young British men are being used as 'slave labourers' in Stockholm, police have said. The men are being used in building work, and according to reports they are paid only sporadically and live in squalor. Swedish television station TV4 has revealed that the men are forced to work fifteen hours a day, and live in derelict caravans without access to food or water. Around 100 British men are said to be working as pavers in the Stockholm area. Swedish police say the incident is "pure slave trading". Jimmy Åberg of Swedish border police described some of the building workers as...

"Rival gangs of 10-year-olds in the eastern town of Söderhamn have threatened to wipe each other out. One of the gangs is made up of indigenous Swedes and the other of immigrants, and police in the town are taking the problem very seriously. The conflict has escalated on the internet, and police fear that there may be fatalities if the fighting is not stopped. "

AL ASAD, Iraq (Aug. 25, 2005) -- Before Marine Aircraft Group 26 left North Carolina earlier this year, pre-deployment training helped its Marines and sailors prepare for some of the things they would see here. Sergeant Thomas R. Fuller, the group’s training, anti-terrorism and force protection chief, was responsible for building a pre-deployment training plan and instructing some of the service members who deployed. “All I did was help other Marines get ready to come out here and have the right mindset,” he said. Single handedly, Fuller prepared nearly 1,000 Marines and sailors for deployment to a combat environment. He...

ATLANTA, March 18 (AP) - The city's embattled Police Department acknowledged Friday that it made mistakes just after the deadly courthouse rampage here a week ago, and the chief said the suspect had spent as much as 12 hours undetected outside a busy mall. The police chief, Richard J. Pennington, said he would oversee a full review of his department's response to the attacks. Among the issues to be studied, Chief Pennington said, will be communication problems among law enforcement agencies and their mistaken focus on searching for a carjacked vehicle that they believed the accused, Brian Nichols, was using...

Instant photos capture crimes New tools help Dallas police increase arrests, prosecutions of abusers 12/27/2002 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News The women in the photos look straight ahead, caught mostly expressionless in the camera's flash. The bruises, busted lips and torn clothing say plenty, and that's the idea for police and prosecutors. The impromptu portraits speak volumes even after the black eyes fade and - more often than not - the victims return to their attackers and lose any desire to prosecute, authorities say. Using simple instant cameras and a new detailed series of questions for...