Path of the Guardian®
A new video every week on the latest Supreme Court and federal appeals decisions, and what they mean for your officers. Created by Attorney Eric Daigle.
Walks through a theft investigation that escalated into a physical confrontation after an individual refused to provide identification, used profanity, and recorded officers from his porch.
Walks through a K-9 deployment in which a handler released his dog on a man lying prone on the ground, with a bite that lasted about 43 seconds while two backup officers were on scene.
Walks through a commercial-truck stop initiated after officers received a narcotics tip, focusing on the distinction between legitimate regulatory inspections and inspections used as a pretext for criminal investigation.
Walks through the seizure and search of a backpack carried by an arrestee, focusing on legitimate caretaking purposes, compliance with departmental inventory policies, and the effect of minor procedural deviations.
Walks through the search of an arrestee's personal bags following a custodial arrest, focusing on standardized inventory-search procedures and whether the evidence would ultimately have been discovered through lawful…
Walks through a First Amendment audit conducted outside a police station, focusing on the constitutional protections afforded to recording government activity, when an encounter becomes a Fourth Amendment seizure, and…
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Why Path of the Guardian®
Attorney Eric DaiglePrincipal, Daigle Law GroupAn expert in police misconduct litigation, Attorney Eric Daigle has spent more than a decade defending officers, supervisors and command staff. Path of the Guardian® turns what he sees in court into ten-minute lessons officers can finish on a shift.
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For agencies
Keep every officer current, and manage it all from one place.
Every officer gets the same ten-minute legal update each week, wherever they work and on any shift.
Leaders assign training and see each officer’s progress in Manage Group, their agency dashboard.
Certificates and completion records for every officer, kept for your agency’s training documentation.
Individual subscription
$125for 12 months