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Complacency Kills

Jan 11, 2012

I vividly recall Sgt. Tony Veltre, one of my instructors at the police academy, shouting, “Complacency kills!” A mantra he would repeat throughout our instruction until it became indelibly imprinted into each of our brains. After graduation, I was fortunate enough to work for an agency that carried that same philosophy into practice on the street. As most of us in la...

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