DADE CITY, FL - It's not just Police Chief Phillip Thompson or just Sgt. James Walters anymore. The Dade City police brass are now also college professors in their spare time, teaching criminal justice courses to undergraduates at nearby Saint Leo University.

Thompson and Walters earned master's degrees in criminal justice in December from the Catholic university, which, in turn, put them right back into the classroom as, well, professor cops.

Contemporary law enforcement recruits need more formal education than their peers of yesteryear because their jobs are more complex, said Terry Danner, who heads the criminal justice program at Saint Leo. "It's not just checking locks and wrestling drunks anymore," Danner said... Read more.

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