Sheriff Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr. via Facebook What does it take to keep a county of fewer than 400,000 people safe? For one ...

If you want to truly evaluate a candidate’s experience, skills, and cultural fit, you need to dig deeper. One easy way? Take a page from the hostage-negotiation playbook, and do a little mirroring.

The goal in law enforcement crisis situations where crisis and hostage negotiators are being utilized entails influencing a behavioral change in someone in order to gain voluntary compliance. Although ...