Drink More Water

The old cliché about cops and their coffee and donuts is the subject of jokes about police and a visual gag in many movies. But, in reality, it is a stereotype born out of the law enforcement officer's need to stay alert. Like surgeons and pilots, alertness in our profession can be the difference between success and failure, life and death. Also like surgeons and pilots, we must remain as cognitively sharp as possible as our brains process all kinds of conscious and subconscious stimuli w