Infectious disease is a very significant officer-safety issue. We constantly stress the need for caution, whether we are talking about CPR or needle sticks just from searching somebody during an arrest. |
Ninety-six percent of law enforcement assets in this country are at the state and local level, |
That organization is on some days almost dysfunctional, ... I think Julie may be just the person to pull people and functions together to get them working right for a change. |
These officers made a judgment when confronted by an armed individual and they did what they were trained to do, which is shoot to kill. I am not aware of any policy that calls for anything less than shooting to kill. It just isn't done. |
We expected the Justice Department to find some level of deficiency in these vests, but this level is startling. |
We're obviously concerned by these results, ... but, thank God, we're finding this out now rather than later, because this is a critical issue for officer safety, and the adverse effects could be horrible otherwise. |