LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 129, recorded on 01/02/2017, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Kevin Bouis (Attorney), Bret Bartlett, Mark Hopper, Dan O’Kelly, David D’Agresta and Keith Hamilton. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for attorney Kevin Bouis) are retired law enforcement officers.

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Topic 1 concerns the New York (New York) Police Department allowing Sikh officers to wear turbans and grow beards. Police Commissioner James O’Neill was quoted in this story.

https://www.policeone.com/police-jobs-and-careers/articles/252374006-NYPD-to-allow-Sikhs-to-wear-turbans-grow-beards/

Topic 2 concerns the Detroit (Michigan) Police Department allowing its male officers to wear beard and goatees while females are allowed to wear stud earrings. Police Chief James Craig and Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt are quoted in the story.

http://www.leoaffairs.com/featured/detroit-pd-lifts-bans-beards-goatees-stud-earrings/