Policy Development

Mickey H. Osterreicher, General Counsel, National Press Photographers Association, Reserve Deputy, Erie County Sheriff’s Office, New York “This is my job. This is my job. . . . I’m just doing my job. . . . I was sent here. . . . I’m a journalist.”1 This refrain was not enough to keep journalist Andrea Sahouri from being pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest.

Path of the Guardian was developed to help protect law enforcement officers. New videos are distributed weekly providing training on policy and police practice issues. Daigle Law Group and its Consultants developed this video program to help protect the Guardian by developing the Guardian mindset. Weekly videos are 5-10 minutes in length and focus on important policy and police practice issues developing across the

Without question, 2020 was a year that brought more protests than any other year in our recent history. So, what does the rise in protests mean for law enforcement moving forward? In October of 2020, the MCCA, an organization made up police executives from seventy-eight of the largest police agencies across the US and Canada, released a report that documents protests that took place in major cities across North America. Because we