Briefing Showcases Mental Health First Aid and Opioid Epidemic
This post originally appeared on the Capitol Connector blog. View the original post. On Tuesday, May 8th, the National Council…
This post originally appeared on the Capitol Connector blog. View the original post. On Tuesday, May 8th, the National Council…
Our Cloud 911 family – family in the professional, I-love-working-with-these-people-sense – is made up of people living with private pain:…
Here in St. Louis County, we’re very proud of this statistic: On average, our police officers have had to use…
When we think of police officers, our minds may jump to the physical tools resting on their toolbelts: tasers, handguns,…
March is National Criminal Justice Month. When we think about mental health and the criminal justice system, we may conjure…
This piece was originally published on The Hill. Read the original article. Approximately 10 percent of police calls involve a person with…
Until four days ago, Cpl. Omar Delgado was lauded as a hero for being one of the first police officers…
No one said this job was going to be easy. But if you asked me five years into my career,…
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Maj. Jim Cleek, commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Training Bureau, found out his son was living with…
If you haven’t read Part I of Sgt. Eric Weaver’s inspirational story, click here. In 2002, a fellow officer and…
“If I don’t tell you something, I’m going to kill myself.” I said these words to my then-wife in the…