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    The cost of stress in the police force
    Sally Herships
    • May 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    The cost of stress in the police force

    When it comes to what stresses police officers out, it's not the car chases, or the threat of getting shot at, or even killed. Ask Cherie Castellano, director of Cop2Cop, a 24-hour-hotline that fields up to 850 phone calls every month for stressed-out police officers, and she'll tell you the worst part of an officer's job is secondhand trauma: exposure to murders, car accidents, seeing hurt kids, all the horrible things police have to deal with on a daily basis. But she says
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    Good Cop, Bad Cop: How Infighting Is Costing New Jersey Taxpayers
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 18, 2014
    • 6 min

    Good Cop, Bad Cop: How Infighting Is Costing New Jersey Taxpayers

    The day Cassandra Smith was promoted to captain in the Camden Police Department, she went outside to check out the unmarked car that would be hers. She had been excited to drive the car home — but found the inside covered with cigar ashes and needing a good cleaning. Then she found three bags of crack in the door pocket. “This is big league. It’s hardball. Possession of cocaine is a criminal offense, I could have very well — not just ended up being terminated, but could have
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