Officer Roll Call

Editor Paul Peluso and retired LT Frank Borelli discuss recent advancements in duty gear design, materials and more. The impact of the materials and design evolution goes far beyond function, resulting in more professional appearance, more comfort on the job, lower stress and better mental well-being.

In this week's news roundup, News Editor Joe Vince and Ret. LT Frank Borelli discuss six news articles of interest. From Zero Bail in Los Angeles County to Zoned Enforcement in New York City, this week's episode has some great information (in case you missed it) with thought provoking commentary.

In the second episode of our six-episode series, retired Lt. Frank Borelli and Editor Paul Peluso look back at the 1966 attack committed by Charles Whitman at the University of Texas Tower. Often referred to simply as the Texas Tower shooting, it was one of the incidents that prompted the creation of SWAT teams in our country and changed response protocols for patrol officers. 

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In this episode, Assistant Editor Joe Vince and ret. Lt. Frank Borelli discuss the latest news topics from the past week. They talk about staffing and budget challenges facing a plethora of departments, and they look at how being respectful, even during enforcement duties, can pay dividends decades later. Plus, how multiple agencies in Virginia and Maryland stopped a possible tragedy.

In this episode, Editor Paul Peluso and retired LT Frank Borelli discuss Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and how it affects the contemporary law enforcement workplace. Past concerns and operational protocols are also examined and how law enforcement has evolved into what it is today.

Assistant Editor Joe Vince and special guest co-host Paul Peluso, editor of OFFICER Magazine, look at the different sides of law enforcement. First, they talk about the tragic ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy sitting in his cruiser outside his station. Then they put a spotlight on the Georgia officers and good Samaritans who helped lift a 3,600-pound car to rescue a trapped driver. Plus, a suspect's failed "Mission: Impossible"-style burglary and Michigan troopers unusual outhouse rescue.

In the first episode of this sponsored six-part series, News Editor Joe Vince and retired LT Frank Borelli discuss the attack at Columbine High School in 1999 and how it came to be known as the "Pearl Harbor" of active shooter events. Discussed is why this attack was perceived so differently than others before it and how basic response by officers to such events has changed since then. Sponsored by FirstNet. When every second counts, first responders count on FirstNet.

This week's episode focuses on stories of immediate threats to law enforcement, quite literally coast to coast; an agency dissolved and another created; and that last guy who ran from the police ... only to crash right in front of the police station.

Editor Paul Peluso and retired LT Frank Borelli talk about the events of Nine-Eleven, some of OFFICER's coverage of it and what's going on today as far as lessons learned and how law enforcement has improved since those attacks.

This week, News Editor Joe Vince and retired LT Frank Borelli talk about the escalation of anti-police outlook from prohibiting armed uniformed officers in your place of business to ambushing them with a shotgun. Still, officers are heroic, as in the hostage rescue story we discuss, and creative, like the one who barked like a dog, encouraging some suspects to surrender.