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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
Former police officer sharing a lifetime of experience
- By NICHOLAS BERGIN / Lincoln Journal Star
- Oct 24, 2012
- Oct 24, 2012 Updated Aug 7, 2019
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Retired Lincoln Police Sgt. Larry Barksdale works with students during a forensic science lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012.
KRISTIN STREFF/Lincoln Journal Star
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A hands-on professor, Larry Barksdale thinks nothing of firing bullets into his son’s jalopy so students can measure the holes or of spitting mouthfuls of his blood on butcher paper to check the spatter pattern.
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Retired Lincoln Police Sgt. Larry Barksdale's field of study for his master's degree was incorrectly reported in an earlier version of this story.
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