When I left my house when I was young, my parents would tell me to check in every hour. I had no cell phone, no pager, no way to check in other than use the house phone at a friends house or run to the local payphone and pop in a dime. Then pagers came along, then cell phones, and nowadays there are camera phones, text messaging, and internet, just about everything is accessible to kids on their phones.

I believe giving a child a fully loaded cell phone is the worst decision a parent can make. A plain cell phone with limited minutes or a pre-paid cell phone “just for emergencies” is fine but kids don’t use the phones of today “just for emergencies”. Parents buy their kids phones that enable the kids to access everything the parents may ban at home. Here are just a few examples of what kids are doing with their cell phones:

Sending explicit photos of themselves or messages to their friends.

Sending threats or rumors to others that usually end up in a fight.

Filming fights at school or gang fights and posting them on the internet site called youtube or myspace.

Disobeying school rules by sending text messages to each other across the room, campus, or even across town.

Causing automobile accidents by trying to read or send text messages while driving.

Notify each other of where the party will be, who has drugs for sale, where to meet when they sneak out, all without parent’s knowledge.

Text to each other late at night without parent’s knowledge that the child is even awake.

Access the internet and inappropriate web sites including porn sites.

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Revised for 2008 - here is the link to the new “have a nice night” checklist for the fridge. A quick check of this list on a nightly basis will keep you safer.

Download the checklist: Click here - .pdf file

Here is the text we attach to the checklist:

Thanks for looking into trying the Coptalk “Have a nice night!” Safety Checklist.

There is nothing on this list that goes beyond using common sense – however, we get so busy in our lives we often “forget” to take care of certain matters. Unfortunately, the safety of your family and home is not something that can be over looked.

We suggest you post this weekly checklist on your refrigerator door, and review it before you retire for the evening. After a while, you probably won’t need the checklist at all, or you may find you will modify it for your family’s needs.

Print out extra copies for a few months use – or use a copy machine if you are not using a computer. As we have stated in the media, our book “CopTalk” was written because of the public’s view that there is never a cop around when you need one.

If you and your family take this extra effort to secure your safety, and the safety of your property – I assure you – you will be freeing up hundreds of Officers to be actively patrolling the streets, instead of spending hours and hours of report taking for crimes that didn’t need to happen.

Doors Locked? Check all your doors to your residence. The front door, the back door, the side door, the door leading to the garage, sliding glass doors and patio doors.

If it’s a door - make sure it’s locked and secure.

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After a bit of discussion between all of us here at Coptalk.info we have decided to combine our sites into one location. We used to have Netcopspsi.com and this site but now everything will be located here.

As you can see we have added a lot of info to the site lately to include Amazon Kindle Support and hopefully soon a Podcast/Netcast that will be available.

Looks for more updates and even more real time writings about real world issues.

Here are large versions of the books front and back cover for those that have asked:

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