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 and Emotions

As a former police officer, Laura Motes knows how important it is to stay emotionally calm no matter what.

When thinking about healthy living, many people focus on physical exercise, eating properly, and sleeping enough hours, and completely forget to pay attention to their emotional well-being.

Physical energy is what we need to be able to do any kind of work or activity. At the same time, to be able to perform well we need to have pleasant and positive emotions in addition to having physical energy.

Negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, and sadness release stress hormones into our bodies. This is why they are associated with feeling toxic.

In addition to having a healthy body, healthy living is impossible without the capacity to skillfully manage emotions, have high positive energy, and achieve full engagement in both personal and professional life.

Emotional energy works very similarly to physical energy. Our emotions need a balance between exercise and recovery. When our emotional muscles are weak, for example if we lack confidence or have too little patience, we need to learn to push through our current emotional capacity and then rest and recover.

Not only do physical and emotional aspects of our lives work in a similar manner, but physical and emotional capacities are extremely interconnected.

When we have a deadline that we need to meet, we emotionally feel a sense of urgency. This emotion immediately influences our physical state. We start moving faster and working quicker to meet the deadline.

This is why mastering emotional energy is so important for a healthy and productive life, especially if you work in a profession with high levels of stress like Laura Motes, who was a police officer for twenty-one years.

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 - Fervent Supporter of the ASPCA

Laura Motes grew up with animals all around her in her parents’ home in rural Georgia. She knows how to properly care for and treat them and she wants everyone to have the same knowledge and caring nature that she does. Unfortunately, the United States is still a long way from being completely educated of the proper way to take care of domesticated animals. Pets still go neglected and get abandoned all the time. Motes, a former police officer and current nursing student, wanted to join the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

The ASPCA has two main causes that it as an organization works hard to fight for: the end of animal homelessness and the end of animal cruelty. Laura Motes works closely with her local animal shelters near her home in Watkinsville, Georgia, but across the country animal shelters are routinely stretched thin because their budgets just don’t do enough to place animals in good homes. With 2.7 million animals being euthanized in the United States every year, the ASPCA works to provide alternatives to euthanasia for shelters throughout the country. The ASPCA also works to help abused animals find new homes and to educated people about the causes and effects of animal cruelty in our society, as well as the signs to watch for. Laura Motes is a vocal advocate of all of these issues.

Laura Motes plans on beginning her Master’s degree in Nursing in the fall of 2016 at Georgia Regents University.
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Laura Motes - Many Duties as a Police Sergeant with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department

Laura Motes had many duties throughout her career with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. She started with the force as a patrol officer in 1993, fresh from her extensive military police training with the United States Army at Fort McClellan, Alabama. She worked her way up and became Sergeant in the West Precinct for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, where she worked for ten years ensuring that her community is safe and working hard to reducing and eliminating crime. In 2014, she left the force to pursue another avenue of employment as a nurse. She plans on attending Georgia Regents University in the fall of 2016 to earn her Master’s degree in Nursing.

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Laura Motes was in charge of supervising and monitoring shift activities. She also directed the shift’s patrol efforts to help reduce crime in her precinct. She developed strategies using personnel at her precinct to protect her community and ensure that justice is kept on the streets of her territory. Motes loved working closely with officers to mentor and assist them in their daily activities and their career development. She provided the support that all police officers need to do their jobs effectively.

Laura Motes had many daily responsibilities, all of which were integral to the overall effectiveness of the police department as a whole and to her precinct’s operations directly. She reviewed incident reports that officers filed for their thoroughness and accuracy. She used these reports to compile information for her administrative reports. In addition to mentoring officers that came under her wing, Motes also oversaw their training and the socialization of all new personnel in her shift. Motes acted as the communication hub for her shift, receiving and preparing all kinds of correspondence from other departments or precincts. She acted as a reliable source of information for the public and for other police departments in the area, transmitting new information and correspondence to the applicable parties and answering questions that people in the media come up with.

Laura Motes had the necessary and unenviable job of investigating all complaints of officer misconduct or inappropriate action. She took all of her actions against and on behalf of officers in her shift and precinct with the utmost professional courtesy and did her best to sort out all details from both sides of all conflicts. She diligently interviewed all officers implicated in misconduct complaints and collected pertinent information which she used to complete and submit administrative reports to her superiors.

Laura Motes kept the West Precinct of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department up and running smoothly so that it could continue to protect and serve the people of the community in the fairest and most just way possible for ten years.