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Daily Archives: June 5, 2018

Empower and Educate, Don’t Just Create Panic

Blog, FeaturedBy Justin W. PatchinJune 5, 20182 Comments

Last weekend a Facebook post by the Polk County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office went viral. As of this writing (less than a week later), the post had been shared more than 58,000 times (including by three of my personal Facebook friends, which is how I came to notice it). This wasn’t a post asking for the…

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