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See Terrence P. Dwyer, Don't destroy your career: The Brady list and the ruinous impact of a lie, POLICE1 (Nov. 3, 2016), ("[T]ermination of the lying officer is certainly not an unexpected or unusually severe result in some agencies ... the Arkansas and New York State Police have a zero-tolerance policy once an officer has a sustained finding of untruthfulness following an administrative hearing .... ). 

Many prosecution offices maintain a "do not call" list of police officers whose testimony cannot be trusted under oath and who should not be called to testify in court because of impeachment concerns.254 Fn. 254. See Terrence P. Dwyer, Don't Destroy Your Career: The Brady List and the Ruinous Impact of a Lie, POLICEONE (Nov. 3, 2016) https://perma.cc/UF3Q-JTN4 

There is worry that the Strieff decision may have left the wrong impression for police officers concerning the limits of Terry stops: "In no way... did the court sanction such unconstitutional stops as a means for officers to run random name checks for warrants."74 Fn. 74. Terrence P. Dwyer, The Utah v. Strieff Decision and the Limits of the Exclusionary Rule, POLICEONE.COM (July 29, 2016)

On the other hand, the White House’s National Strategy for Homeland Security has also provided an important definition of homeland security when it defined it as follows: “a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur.” (cited in Dwyer, 2015, p. 1). As Dwyer has stated, “homeland security in the United States has become a centralizing aspect of government response to threat, external and internal, coordinated at a national level through the Department of Homeland Security” (2015, p. 1). According to Dwyer, prior to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, homeland security was a term many Americans were unfamiliar with. However, after the 9/11 attacks, homeland security became a very familiar term among the American people, young and old alike. It has also become a field of study “wherein many college students are seeking careers in government service” (Dwyer, 2015, p. 1).

As one veteran of the New York State Police force recently remarked, the “time is rapidly approaching when the Supreme Court must decide the issue and provide a comprehensive statement on the subject.”10
10 Terrence P. Dwyer, Cell Phones, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment, PoliceOne.com (Aug. 10, 2012)

93. Injudicious statements and misuse of social media has sounded a warning bell in the law enforcement community, prompting a call for workplace standards. See Terrence P. Dwyer, Pitfalls for Police Officers on Facebook, POLICEONE.COM (Aug. 11, 2010), (“Police administrators are well advised to adopt a social networking policy if they have not already started to do so. Police officers are advised to keep content unobjectionable at the least but would be better off staying clear of online postings and video rants. The democratization of media use has created a “big brother‟ of monstrous proportions and can quickly become a trap for the careless officer.”).

“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the employer by distinguishing the Pickering balancing criteria from that here where Ceballos’ speech was made pursuant to his official duties, in essence ruling it was speech made as part of his job and not made as a private citizen. The threshold inquiry after Garcetti is the extent to which an employee can be said to be speaking in connection with his/her employment” (Dwyer, 2010)…As a result of Garcetti, criticism of the “blue wall of silence” and public demand for greater police transparency has hit a “speed bump” because the ruling discourages officers from coming forward with criticism of activities within the department (Dwyer, 2010).

“History has shown that Supreme Court Justices tend to evolve in their thinking once elevated to the Court” (Dwyer, 2009). Dwyer notes that when Sotomayor joined the bench, it considered some “interestingly diverse criminal procedure decisions” and discusses how Sotomayor may rule on constitutional issues involving police officers: That answer is open-ended but if history is any indication, she will be a tough law and order judge who will not let the government run rampant over individual rights. If life experience is any influence, then one must remember she grew up in the Bronx during a time when the Bronx was a lot tougher place to live than it is now, and then after law school she went on to be a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorneys’ Office. A study for the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee on her criminal justice record indicated that as a Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge she affirmed convictions 92 percent of the time and upheld police searches 90 percent of the time. The Majority Staff found that her appellate decisions “demonstrate(s) a consistent record of following the rule of law in upholding convictions and sentences in criminal cases.” (Dwyer, 2009)