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Officers working the street may have heard these words uttered from time to time: My wrists hurt. Can you loosen up the handcuffs? I can't feel my fingers because the ...

During a recent advanced patrol rifle class, an officer leaned out far from a hard-cover position to fire on an armed offender. Why break cover? In part because his sling ...

Dear Bullethead, I'm a jail deputy. Because I had no law enforcement experience, I was required to start in the jail. My jail commitment is up, but I'm not sure ...

Again, a recent incident prompted this month s Tactics column. Over the past few months, I ve been working with a couple of attorneys who are defending two officers, each ...

All said, this is lots of gear that takes lots of space. One solution: Outfit a small trailer with the bulk of the non-critical response gear.

Communications remains one of the most vital requirements for officer safety and management of critical incidents. Unfortunately, it s frequently one of the first things to suffer when a disaster ...

For the past few years, I've spent a couple hours or more every day working on a laptop computer. When it works, it's great, and when it doesn't, it's the ...

With more than 18,000 police agencies nationwide, there’s certainly a need for police-oriented vehicles even though, numerically, the police vehicle marketplace remains minuscule compared to the overall automotive landscape. There’s ...

Back in 1980 when the Street Survival: Tactics for Armed Encounters book was released, the statistics on officers killed revealed that approximately 7 percent of officers killed are killed in ...

We all make choices in our careers for good and bad. Sometimes just speaking our minds will inadvertently cause a career choice. This is the story of how one such ...