Positive Cooping Tools
We constantly hear about the problems with the Baltimore City Police
Department and we rarely hear about the positive things that they
are doing. It is always easy to criticize. The career of
a police officer is not easy and not everybody on the force should
be there. But there are probably considerably more good
officers than bad ones. Some times a good officer makes one
mistake and it is his last one. It could be that he loses his job as
a result or his life. Either one is bad.
The number cause of death for active police officers is suicide
which is twice as high as line of duty death. Stress is a
major problem.
In the recent riots in Baltimore the Police Department was probably
caught off guard. Today we know that some of the problems were
caused by outsiders. The bricks that you saw on the ground
were after they landed and broke into pieces. There were not
enough shields to cover the police officers.
Jim Nabors of Billy Graham Rapid Response Team was one of the
chaplains who came to Baltimore to present a series of seminars and
to help our police recover from the riots. Many of them were
working 16-hour shifts and they were tired. Bricks were being
thrown at them just because they are police officers.
Jim told us that his seminar is the C.A.S.E. system: Copy
and
Steal
Everything.
In other words, we are encouraged to copy all his material. He
even old us to photograph the slides. What he told us applies
not only to police officers recovering from the riots, but to
anybody recovering from a crisis. But the training was geared
more to Baltimore.
Besides the great seminar, the environment was also excellent.
It was held at Johns Hopkins at Keswick. I have never been
there before and I had no idea what a treat that I will have.
I left home around 10:00 for the 13:00 seminary. My first stop
was at the Baltimore City Detention Center to drop off labels for
our Wellness Fair in June 2015. Officer Taylor was very
gracious and took the envelope directly to Ms. Oliver's office.
My original plan was to take the #35 bus back pass my house and
transfer to the #22. A part of the reason for this is that I
planned the trip from home. But I decided to take the #8 bus
to the #22 bus and this worked considerably better, despite the fact
that I just missed the #22 bus as it was at the bus stop when I got
off the #8.
I was really impressed by the facility and the environment near the
Rotunda. I have been on the west side of the Rotunda many
times, but never on the east side of it. If it were not so
hot, I probably would had walked around the area taking
photographs. It was just gorgeous. I'm sharing the
photographs with you.
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