Order 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 SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME XXIV NO. 9 • PRICE $4.95 • www.APBweb.com 35 10 Top Ten List 16 Opinion/Editorial 34 In the Line of Duty Inside News You Can Use DEEP BREATH More law enforcement officers are discovering the healing power of mindulness and mediation as officers are reporting higher levels of stress. PLUS . . . 20 HUGE RULING A state supreme court has ruled that cops cannot lawfully comply with detainer requests from ICE. 06 STEPPED UP After an officer was killed in the line of duty, his fellow officers got to work finishing a tree house for their fallen colleague’s daughter. Watch your six, Bro! The Phillie Phanatic shields himself behind a police officer after players from the Milwaukee Brewers threw cups of water at him before a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park recently. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) Continued on page 20 Continued on page 36 Continued on page 30 Kids love cop camp by Cynthia Brown In Vermont, police are using spe- cial law enforcement academies to connect with kids and teach them about the nuts and bolts of police work. This past summer, kids in Burl- ington County got a taste of what life is like for cops on the job. The children get to process evidence at mock crime-scenes, learn about firearm safety and they As foretold: more lawsuits by Mark Nichols Here’s the thing – when a local law enforcement agency “holds” an undocumented individual for ICE and things go sideways, it’s the city or county that will be on the hook for damages in lawsuits. For many, that’s the genius of getting local law enforcement to perform federal tasks. Free labor plus zero liability is always a win- ner from a business perspective. And there are a hell of a lot of people talking about how govern- ment should be run like a business these days. Consider the otherwise unre- markable case of Garland Creedle. He was booked into Miami’s Turn- er Guilford Knight correctional center after an alleged domestic dispute at his family’s home. The 18-year-old posted bond, and charges were never filed. How do we fix it? by James Nolan How should we understand the violence, counter-violence and civil unrest that mark the current era in American policing? And, based on this understanding, what can we do to stop it? Rather than focus on the char- acteristics of “bad apple” officers or angry, vengeful citizens, soci- ologists like me tend to look at the context in which the violence occurs or at how individuals within this context interact. For example, sociologists might study a sport like soccer. Partici- pants learn the rules of the game, Are current policing models failing communities and officers alike? Technology has changed in law en- forcement, but there is a lot about the job that’s still the same.