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Mission LA (Part II)

Wayne Pak — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:26:00 GMT

By: Wayne Pak
The Crisis Negotiation Workshop began with an introduction to the LAPD’s Crisis Negotiation Team, the history of crisis negotiation and different models of crisis negotiation used by different departments. This initial background to crisis negotiation truly illustrated the stark difference between this type of negotiation and many others that we learned in the Negotiation Conference. Crisis negotiation usually has very little alternatives to the negotiation. Whereas business...read more

Mission LA (Part 1)

Wayne Pak — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:04:00 GMT

By: Wayne Pak
I arrived in LAX after a relatively short flight from Denver, and no sooner did I gather my bags that I found myself sitting in an unmarked police cruiser, the driver negotiating the hectic and mostly standstill landmark of LA: traffic. My name is Wayne Pak, a cadet at West Point, and I’ve never done anything so bad to warrant a ride with the law and yet on 6 June 2010 I found myself escorted by LAPD Officer Mike Baker and another LAPD Sergeant through LAX and into the unmarked...read more