www.policepsychology.org<\/a>) and really great hospitality suites.\u00a0 I know I used to help run them (both the conference and the suite).\u00a0 You would hear the latest in presentations from around the world and only 20 minutes each.\u00a0 Then you talk to the person and learn more.\u00a0 It is great.\u00a0 And every year they have a banquet to match the place where the conference is being held.\u00a0 Last year it was gourmet southern in Atlanta.\u00a0 This year it is a hoedown Austin Barbecue, in Texas of course.\u00a0 By the time you leave you know all 150-200 participants, from psychologists to police chiefs to patrol officers.\u00a0 I think everyone in law enforcement should go to that conference at least once.\u00a0 (In September this year, go to the website to find out more).<\/span><\/p>\nI spend a lot of time in conferences with cops as I used to be a motivational speaker at many.\u00a0 Hostage negotiation conferences, terrorism conferences, Christmas conferences, hell I even spoke at a technology conference, and foreign conferences are my favorite.\u00a0 I learn something every time.\u00a0 I want someday to go with my union guys.\u00a0 They go to union conferences in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and they just love them.\u00a0 Conferences happen all over the world.\u00a0 And if you are going to work in this profession, learn to go for one.\u00a0 Apply for the time and possibly money and go to a conference to help yourself develop.\u00a0 It is a great thing and you will be forever changed.\u00a0 Then come back and write on it in a blog or something.\u00a0 You\u2019ll thank me for it.
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it out to the public, we had contacted Clint Van Sandt of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit.\u00a0 We went down to see him and we were ushered over to Dr. James Reese.\u00a0 He was running a program inviting the top police psychologists to stay at the FBI Academy and he invited me to join. It opened up my world to about fifty police psychologists.\u00a0 Fifty people doing what I did, but also something different.\u00a0 That different was what I needed to know.\u00a0 I remember I made a presentation that day about Keeping It Simple as a law enforcement officer.\u00a0\u00a0 I quoted some great persons in history like Aristotle, Einstein and Dante who all told you to simplify.\u00a0 Then I said \u201cwe have to go with the modern greats\u201d and I went around the room and quoted the psychologists who spoke before me.\u00a0 Got everyone\u2019s attention on that one, and it started my work with the FBI and many other departments since.<\/span><\/p>\n