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Police Issues is intended to help police professionals and criminal justice faculty and students keep informed about significant developments and emerging issues in law enforcement and criminal justice.

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News items are updated daily; opinion pieces are published each week.  Unless otherwise noted, everything is the blogger’s original work.

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Comments and feedback are always welcome!  Address your e-mails to:  jay [at] policeissues [dot] com
 

About the Blogger

My name is Julius Wachtel, although most everyone calls me “Jay.”  It’s a nickname I used while working undercover in Phoenix and that stuck through the years. I retired in 1998 after 23 years as an ATF special agent and supervisor. Most of my work was in gun trafficking and bombing investigations, with duty stations in Phoenix, Helena and Los Angeles. I also served as a police sergeant in Oregon and as an Army MP stateside and in Vietnam. Since 1998 I’ve worked as a criminal justice consultant and as a criminal justice lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. Click here for my class website.

My education includes a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, an MS in Criminal Justice from Arizona State, and a B.S. in Police Science and Administration from Cal State Los Angeles. Links to my published articles are here, here and here.  Other than policing, I’m interested in crime and justice during the Soviet era.  My book “Stalin’s Witnesses,” a historical novel about the Moscow Show Trials of 1936-1938, will be published by Knox Robinson in December 2012.

Please don’t let anything on this blog reflect on anyone but me. Unless it’s specifically attributed to someone else it’s all my own hot air.

And thanks for reading!

Jay

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West Memphis 3
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Letting guns walk
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SPECIAL INTEREST

Using the Taser
Police and the mentally ill
Catholic church scandal
Prescription drug abuse
Future of C.J. education
Carrying guns
Corrupt gun dealers
Torture: who decides?
The ten deadly sins
To prevent is divine
Sources of crime guns
Quantity v. quality
The craft of policing
Ethics & undercover work
The pistol that killed officer Heim