These are troubled times for cops and their families. There's an almost constant stream of bad press about law enforcement, a rash of unthinkable acts of violence against police officers, repeated anti-police protests, horrific mass shootings, and the...
There were so many mistakes leading up to the Parkland school shooting it’s hard to know where to begin. Or how to separate opinion from fact. Humans are meaning-making mammals. We crave order, safety, and predictability. We like to think we’re in control — strong,...
Once a month, sometimes once a week I get an email message from a person asking how to become a police psychologist. The requests are hopeful, optimistic, altruistic. Some are personal, the writer knows a cop; is or sometimes was married to a cop; very often was or...
Policing is stressful business. Most cops will see more death, despair and human cruelty in the first few years of their careers than the rest of us will see in a lifetime. This takes a toll. As a police psychologist, I’ve been up close and personal with the suffering...
I've been a police psychologist for thirty years; counseling, teaching, giving workshops, and writing books, both fiction and non-fiction. My fictional alter-ego, Dr. Dot Meyerhoff, has done a lot more preemployment psychological screening that I have. In Burying...
Investigating Internet crimes against children (ICAC) is one of the most emotionally difficult assignments law enforcement professionals can undertake. It is the subject of my most recent Dot Meyerhoff mystery, The Fifth Reflection. I remember the day I knew...