WASHINGTON -- The secrecy has been maintained for more than seven months. Now the U.S. Capitol Police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt -- a protester who was climbing through a broken window into the...

The media, pundits, and political activists continue to tell the public that they are the experts on when police use of force is legal and necessary but they are not the experts. Until those so called experts attend a police academy...

“I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately….."    Henry D. Thoreau This quote, by Henry Thoreau is important because it discusses doing something with intention. Thoreau consciously made a decision to separate himself from society so...

I recently attending a LOCKUP use of force instructor class.  It is a defensive tactics system that is taught by Retired Lieutenant Kevin Dillon.

how do we define what reasonable is and how do we teach recruits to understand what reasonableness is?

It is the time of the year when hundreds of officer are currently in route to St. Louis for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) Conference.

The degree to which a police officer’s use force is incumbent upon their own individual decision making process during their encounter.

This concept of 'reasonableness' has dotted the legal landscape for a long period of time, and really only been applied to law enforcement applications of force since Graham v. Connor.

By now everyone in the world is aware of the officer in Tulsa whom used force to end an encounter with a subject who was not following directions.

Introduction As I sit at my desk looking across my basement, I think how safe I am, and that is in part to the local first responders.  It is also in part because of my background and the understanding of...