Maximizing Your Return on Training Exercises
A lot of time, effort and money goes into successful training exercises. Are you maximizing your efforts to get the greatest return on your work?
A lot of time, effort and money goes into successful training exercises. Are you maximizing your efforts to get the greatest return on your work?
Last week while teaching a defensive tactics course, one of the participants suggested that officers in his department were overly concerned with activating their digital voice recorders when responding to ...
There’s this saying among some police defensive tactics (DT) trainers: “If you’re on the ground and not handcuffing, you’re losing.” Whether you agree or disagree with this theory, being in ...
I think it was General Douglas MacArthur who said, If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, then I have never seen a brave man. For the courageous man ...
Last month I focused on preparing officers and agencies to deal with the immediacies of the officer-involved shooting (OIS). This month, I ll expand a bit further on the initial ...
I've spoken with many officers over the years about use-of-force issues and sat as legal counsel with more than a few after an officer-involved shooting (OIS).
The stories in this book fall loosely into five categories and are identified as:
Mention foot pursuits to the average street cop, and you ll usually get a smile joined by a widening of the eyes and rise in voice pitch. No doubt foot ...
The murderous acts of twisted gunmen continue. In my state at Northern Illinois University (NIU), students came under deadly attack. A brother officer told me his daughter was in the ...
Dan Martinez, age 33, a five-year veteran of the Fort Smith Police Department was shot in the head and killed by a suspect armed with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol.