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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The penal code defines phone harassment as being:

Obscene or Threatening, or Annoying (repeated phone calls to victim’s residence with intent to annoy.) or Annoying (repeated phone calls to victim’s work place with intent to annoy.) The above excludes calls made in good faith.

Just as you read in the text on vandalism, there are different kinds of phone harassment.

Kiddy crime prank calls:

A kid calls a store and says “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” Store employee replies “We sure do”. Kid replies “Why don’t you let him out” and hangs up all proud of himself because he just pulled off the crime of the century! (I may have done this once or twice when I was a kid but I can’t remember back that far.)

The kid gets a little older, develops an interest in girls, and starts making anonymous calls to girls in his class that he has a crush on. Or he calls to make an anonymous threat, against someone he got into a beef with at school. Or a couple kids getting together after school and making random phone calls out of the phone book. We get lots of these calls from the parents of high school students, complaining about prank calls and hang up calls. You have 3 things on your side.

· Phone recorders.

· *69 which recently became available.

· And boredom.

Most kids and many adults making random prank phone calls get bored quickly if they reach an answering machine. What fun is that unless you can “hear” the person getting annoyed on the other end.

Remember what my favorite saying is. Every Action causes a Reaction. The person making these calls, whether it’s a kid or an adult, are looking for a reaction from their actions. Take away the opportunity, you eliminate the problem.

If you start to get a series of hang up or prank calls, don’t sit on the phone and ask hello 20 times. For whatever reason, callers seem to get great pleasure from this. If you answer the phone and no one is there, hang up. If it was a legitimate call, they’ll call back. If hang up calls continue then that’s the time to turn on the answering machine and let the machine deal with it. 9 times out of 10 the caller will get bored and pick on someone else, or give up all together. If the calls persist then turn off the ringer so that you will not be disturbed.

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