Laura Motes - The Technological Future of Law Enforcement

As a former law enforcement officer who spent more than 20 years with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, Laura Motes is interested in future changes and innovations that could make law enforcement even more effective.


Tech Advances
When one starts to think about the subject, the first – and quite possibly the most important – point is technical innovation. As new technology becomes readily available, law enforcement organizations could take advantage of these advancements in a way that has never been seen before. The available technical resources could change the landscape of criminal prosecution. Similarly to the advances of motor vehicles, drones could represent a new layer of motorized patrols.

Crime Software
Police departments now actually have the knowledge and technical background to use predictive software. They know what are the areas where crime is the most likely to occur, and these predictive technologies could further improve in the near future. The NHTSA (National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration) already uses this kind of software, and other data-driven solutions could be adopted in the near future.
Lie Detection
Despite its long history, lie detection is still not a very good, and most certainly not a very quick, tool. With the advances that are being made in neuroimaging, lie detection could become much more effective in the future, though its use would obviously raise other issues.

Laura Motes had a successful career with the police between 1993 and 2014, during which she often relied on technology to be more effective. She hopes that future generation of officers will be able to do the same, while considerably reducing crime in the world.

Sources:
https://leb.fbi.gov/2016/february/law-enforcement-organizations-possibilities-and-challenges-for-the-future

Laura Motes - Healthy Living, Stress, and Recovery

Laura Motes worked as a police officer for twenty-one years and she knows a lot about stress.

Our bodies require stress in order to grow. This is true for physical, mental, and emotional aspects of our lives. Stress needs to be followed by renewal.

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A lot of people think that a healthy life is a stress-free life. This is simply not true. A muscle that does not experience any stress dies very quickly. A muscle that gets no rest breaks very quickly. Growth and health require both stress and recovery.

A healthy life is a life that has a balance of stress and recovery. All great athletes and performers in all areas of life have rituals that help them optimize moving between recovery and stress.

The more effective and precise your recovery rituals, the quicker you can move to high performance.

The bigger the challenge, the more precise the rituals need to be. The Navy is a great example of this. It has rituals so precise and exact that it is able to turn soft and slow teenagers into mission-driven, confident, lean soldiers in about ten weeks. Recruits are forced to build rituals around all areas of their lives. There’s a ritual for how they talk, how they walk, what time they wake up in the morning and go to bed, when they eat, what they eat, and how they act under pressure.

In the same manner you can introduce rituals, stress, and recovery in your life. For example, Laura Motes loves spending time outdoors. It helps her relax and rejuvenate.

Laura Motes - Tips For Preparing Your Home For A Flood

Laura Motes lives in rural Northeastern Georgia and is keenly aware that her home is in an area that is at risk of flooding, should weather conditions become particularly adverse. As such, she has taken a number of measures to prepare her home in case of such an emergency. These pointers will prove useful to anybody who is in a similar predicament.

 Establish An Evacuation Route
You should always plan for the worst possible outcome when considering flooding, which means that your priority should be you and whoever else lives in the home. As such, when preparing your plan, you need to map out an evacuation route that will take you out of the at-risk area as quickly as possible. You may want to conduct a few drills as well, to ensure you keep the route clear in your mind.

Establish Contacts
It is important that people are aware of your situation should you ever have to deal with a flood, so it is a good idea to establish a primary contact who you will be able to call in cases of emergency. This person should ideally be out of the area and can act as a central point of contact for all of your family members and friends so you can focus more of your time on dealing with the flood.

Pack Supplies
By keeping an emergency kit of supplies handy, Laura Motes notes that you will be able to survive should a flood leave you stranded. Pack long-lasting food, some basic first aid equipment and some useful equipment, such as multipurpose tools and portable phone chargers.
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Laura Motes - On Training for a 5K

Laura Motes is a former police officer, a future nurse, and a personal health enthusiast. Part of her job involved staying in shape during her 20 years as a law enforcement officer, and she still takes the basic building blocks of personal health—exercise and diet—very seriously. In this vein, she has taken to trail running and competitive distance racing in her community near Watkinsville, Georgia. Motes trained herself for her first 5K several years ago, and she has a few pointers for those wanting to do the same:

 

• Give yourself plenty of time. Laura Motes is very physically fit, but when she was just starting to train for her first 5K race, she gave herself nine weeks to prepare. Most beginner’s programs recommend at least seven weeks of training and preparation before a competition. This is to give your body time to adjust to its new routines and help prevent injury.
• Balance running, resting, and walking. Laura Motes recommends to all beginners to work their way up to fast times over five kilometers by incorporating periods of running, of course, but also walking and resting to avoid injury while still training hard.
• Vary your schedule. For many of the same reasons why beginners should mix in periods of walking, running, and resting, those training for a 5K competition should also vary their running schedules. This means running longer distances at a slower pace three days per week, then four, while also training lightly some weeks as well.

Laura Motes helps her friends train whenever she can. She has competed in several marathons in addition to shorter races.
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