Accreditation – What You Need to Know
Accreditation 101 Accreditation Crash Course Part One Part Two
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Guardian Mindset Podcast: New Episodes Available
The Guardian Mindset Podcast is designed to educate and help improve public safety professionals. Join us and our amazing guests as we explore a wide range of public safety related topics and updates. Fighting Words and the First Amendment In this segment, Eric reviews Supreme Court rulings on fighting words and how the concept has been defined and interpreted. Fighting words are written or
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Duty, Honor, and Community: Westmoreland and Taking Back the Narrative
When we in law enforcement take the oath to protect and serve our community, we do not expect that the biggest aggressor in that fight might be the community itself. We’ve gone through a lot as a country in the past few years and one of the hot topics on everyone’s mind has been reforming law enforcement and defunding the police. This has caused
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New Guardian Mindset Podcast Episodes: Qualified Immunity
The Guardian Mindset was developed to educate and help improve law enforcement, corrections, fire, and EMS services. We hope you will join us and our amazing guests explore a wide range of public safety related topics and updates. Listen and subscribe below for new episodes every month! Guardian Mindset 09: Qualified Immunity Part One Attorney Eric Daigle covers the doctrine of qualified immunity, including
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Bystander Liability Podcast with Attorney Eric Atstupenas
Attorney Eric Atstupenas sits down with Attorney Eric Daigle at Use of Force Summit to discuss the current challenges facing law enforcement agencies related to bystander liability and the duty to intervene. The Guardian Mindset Podcast was developed to educate and help improve public safety professionals. We hope you will join us and our amazing guests explore a wide range of public safety related
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New Guardian Mindset Podcast: Where does law enforcement go from here?
The Guardian Mindset was developed to educate and help improve law enforcement, corrections, fire, and EMS services. We hope you will join us and our amazing guests explore a wide range of public safety related topics and updates. Listen and subscribe below for new episodes every month! Guardian Mindset 08: Chief Terri Wilfong (Retired) Attorney Eric Daigle is joined by consultant and friend, Chief
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1st Circuit – Pole Camera: United States v. Moore-Bush
Without turning today’s legal update session into a political discussion, we will discuss a new case out of the 1st Circuit involving “pole cameras”. The 1st Circuit’s argument rests on the storied legal principle of ‘Stare Decisis’. This principle has an important application under our rule of law: “keep the scales of justice even and steady and not liable to waver with every new judge’s opinion”. In many
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Summary of President Trump’s Executive Order on Policing
On June 16th, 2020, President Trump released an executive order titled, “Safe Policing for Safe Communities”. The order was broken into the following six sections, which we’ve summarized for you. The main focus of the order is on better police training, a more transparent police database regarding UOF incidents, a reallocation of grant money for departments who are willing to adopt these new and more
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Domestic Violence and the Officer Home Search Hassle
United States v. Gabriel Rodriguez-Pacheco, 948 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2020) Certainly, our response to domestic violence cases has evolved for the better in recent years and we continue to improve our services to Domestic Violence victims. That being said, we must still abide by constitutional guidelines during our investigations and the arrest of the offender. Today’s case focuses on an appeal from the
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Health and Handcuffing – Day v. Wooten
From time to time here at DLG we feel it is important to review liability cases in order to ensure that departments’ policies are up to date. This particular case comes to us from the 7th Circuit, which oversees agencies in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. We have covered a number of handcuffing cases over the years and, while today’s case is
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