Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40Order your own MONTHLY subscription today. Call 1-800-234-0056 or go to www.apbweb.com T H E V O I C E O F T H E N A T I O N ’ S L A W E N F O R C E M E N T C O M M U N I T Y APRIL 2016 VOLUME XXIII NO. 4 ➤ PRICE $4.95 ➤ www.APBweb.com 34 10 Top Ten List 16 Opinion/Editorial 34 In the Line of Duty Inside News You Can Use FACEBOOK Social media continues to help cops damage and/or end their careers and chances for promotion with recycled garbage. PLUS . . . 22 LOOSEY-GOOSEY The JDEA is having a hell of a time getting its paperwork in order, says watchdog. 03 DEDICATION Fallen Washington State Police Trooper Tony Radulescu now has a stretch of highway named after him. AP Wide World Photo An Omaha, Nebraska K-9 named Ace leaps over a fence as handler Sgt. Jacob Hoffman of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department looks on. (Brendan Sullivan/Omaha World-Herald via AP) Continued on page 26 Taking the initiative by Brendan J. O’Brien “It takes a village to raise a child,” is a common African proverb most everyone has heard. But how many people actually take it to heart? Not many. Gadsen County Sheriff Morris A. Young has been living out that proverb since 2004 when he took office. In Gadsen County 47 percent of the county lives at the poverty level. From the time Sheriff Young took office until today he has accom- plished a 201 percent reduction on people sent to prison and a 208 per- cent reduction on delinquent chil- by Cynthia Brown Out of control vehicles are like a box of chocolates. Actually, they’re not like that at all. Still – you never know what you’re gonna get. In Texas recently, Sgt. Seth Klehm with the Brenham Police Depart- ment was sure he’d rolled into a high-speed pursuit. It had a lot of the indicators. “We had a reckless driver driving on the wrong side of the roadway, hitting mailboxes and driving er- ratic,” Sgt. Klehm told reporters with KHOU news. But when he got his vehicle paral- lel with the other he knew the driver wasn’t running from the law. “She was diaphoretic and she ap- peared to have a medical situation because she wasn’t paying attention to any of the signals we were giving That man can drive! Officer defeats chaos by controlling the crash Sgt. Seth Klehm with the Brenham Police Department in Texas. Critics miss the big picture by William J. Bratton Voices on the right have said that crime in New York City is raging out of control because of a steep decline in street stops. Voices on the left have said that the NYPD is criminalizing huge numbers of minority citizens with too many stops, summonses and ar- rests, especially for minor crimes. Between these two gross exag- gerations stands the truth. The police department I run is continuing to manage and control crime. Simul- taneously, we have cut back hugely on enforcement encounters with citizens. We are also undertaking a sweep- ing series of reforms in how the NYPD trains, equips, deploys, man- ages and motivates police officers. All of this is part of a new vision Continued on page 21 Continued on page 30