New Laws for 2025 New Year – New Laws: Along with Prop 36 (which took effect December 2024) amendments and additions have been made to the Penal and Health and Safety Codes that take effect January 1, 2025, including drug checking services, new requirements for Domestic Violence investigations, and crimes related to sexual content generated […]

Discipline and Due Process: When Law Enforcement Investigations Require Bargaining

Reasonable Suspicion to Justify a Detention

“I had an A-D!” A law enforcement officer dreads the prospect of having to confess to the first on-scene supervisor or investigator in a tactical event that, for reasons the officer is unable to clearly articulate, much less understand, the officer’s gun, unintentionally discharged during the event. Minimally, the unintended discharge of a firearm in