Focus on the Mission, and Tell the Truth

For as long as I’ve been instructing young cops on the intricacies of the job, I have most often boiled it down to four simple words: Focus on the mission.

God only knows how many disastrous outcomes might have been avoided had police officers simply focused on their mission and not had their attention diverted to tangential and inconsequential problems. However lengthy that list may be, today we can add the Alex Pretti shooting to it.

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And here we are again, with a man dead, a city in chaos, and perhaps only a winter storm preventing that chaos from spreading across the country. Sadly, people on both sides of the political divide seem to have learned nothing from the death of Renee