In this training program, we talk with Sgt. Adam Plantinga of the San Francisco Police Department. He is a 17 year veteran of law enforcement and has authored two books dealing with police and policing.

In this training program, we examine an ongoing problem that runs throughout law enforcement: fear-based lack of reporting. Lower-ranking officers may be afraid to correct or report superior officers for fear of retribution. Rookie and young officers new to law enforcement may well be fearful of “stepping on toes” or branded as “rats”.

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It is vitally important every street and patrol officer become aware of key elements of the Hispanic Experience. It is almost a certainty that officers will encounter Hispanics and Hispanic Americans in their day-to-day encounters with the public. This now, of course, is true far beyond simply our Southern border states.

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There is zero doubt that when crises and emergencies strike, law enforcement officers are the first on the scene; invariably and virtually always prior to the arrival of e.m.t.’s, medical assistance, and/or fire. A growing movement among some in law enforcement believes strongly, because of that very reason, officers should have a variety of medical-delivery skills and equipment at their disposal. As Dr. Andrew Dennis, head trauma surgeon at Cook County Hospital in Chicago points out, there are almost an unlimited number of reasons officers should receive that additional training. This important program, an exclusive production from In the Line of Duty, explores those reasons. It’ll be up to you to determine the potential value of everything you are about to see and hear. Dr. Dennis makes some very powerful points. Keep an open mind.

Just before Valentine's Day, 2007, 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic walks into a popular Salt Lake City tourist attraction and begins shooting.

One of the shortest, most powerful sentences in any language is ‘what if’.