Setting aside all the public-relations stuff that's part and parcel of American law enforcement, your primary function as a street cop is to place yourself between the citizens you serve and those who would prey upon them. An over-simplification? Not...

One afternoon on the job as a new lieutenant watch commander, I prepared for the night watch roll-call assembly of our accident investigation division. A senior sergeant walked into the office to pick up the assignment board. I smelled alcohol....

"Victorious warriors win first & then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first & then seek to win." —Sun Tzu

The world of projectile-based training in military and law enforcement scenarios has come a long way from where David Luxton and I began our journey toward what would ultimately become SIMUNITION s FX Marking Cartridge, the de facto standard for...

Unlike other professionals, police officers deal with people from all walks of life—the rich and poor, young and old, educated and uneducated, healthy and unhealthy. Sometimes officers come into contact with disabled individuals, and during those times, officers may not...

No matter how computer literate you get, eventually you’ll stumble over something you find difficult. For me, it’s graphics. I don’t mean tweaking photographs or even editing video. I can manage OK with those, and can even make myself look...

Dear Bullethead:

It s 1930 hrs on a Saturday evening, and you re completing a job to locate and clear suspects from a residence. You re positioned outside a plantation house. Intel photos show a standard, one-story building with several adjacent barns....

With an obvious kinship to Heckler & Koch's successful Universal Self-Loading Pistol (USP), the simply named HK .45 is a marriage of the USP and the firm's more streamlined P-2000 pistol. In a nutshell, the HK .45 is a polymer-framed,...

Show me an officer making many good, prosecutable cases on a routine basis, and I will show you an officer utilizing criminal intelligence and information. Show me an officer networking with other officers, and I will show you an officer...