The threat to officers and public safety has never been greater.

Program Title: Thin Bruised Line
Description: Lose respect and you lose the streets. That''s the hard lesson American police learned as their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new "perfect storm" looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them: shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic expectations. The threat to officers and public safety has never been greater.

Host(s): Brent Holland
Featured Speakers/Guests: DOUG CLARK is an award-winning investigative journalist with thirty years'' experience. His books include The Roaring Game, Dark Paths, Cold Trails: How a Mountie Led the Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims, which was shortlisted in 2003 for an Arthur Ellis non-fiction award; and Unkindest Cut:The Torso Murder of Selina Shen. He has written for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, The Edmonton Journal, Saturday Night, and Maclean''s, among others. He lives in North Gower, Ontario.

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