Tag: Lifeline Training

I spent this past weekend in Minnesota. My wife and I have friends with a son on the Nebraska football team; he’s a wide receiver and one of the best ...

I said, “Stop working.” Didn’t you get it? I had an interesting conversation with a fellow columnist Valerie Van Brocklin—whom I respect, by the way—after my last column, entitled Stop ...

I’ve been watching the saturation of coverage on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin verdict over the past several weeks and now the ‘Stop and Frisk’ controversy in New York.  I’m not ...

What’s the biggest obstacle to overcome in order for you to lead effectively? It’s not budgets. It’s not educational restrictions. It’s not having the wrong people to lead. It’s not ...

 In 1995 I was asked to sit through the canned communications course that was being presented to recruits at the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy in Glen Ellyn, Ill. I was ...

Humans have been coexisting on this spinning orb anywhere from 6, 000 to 30,000 years.

The aftermath of events such as Columbine brought about a sea of change in LE response to active shooter events. This has been written about at length by LE writers ...

According to the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted reports, more officers who are feloniously killed and assaulted while making an arrest are within arm’s reach of their assailant. ...

On 9/11--the actual 9/11/2001--around noon, our homicide task force was called out for a murder that just occurred. As the Investigations Commander, I was apprised of the situation while driving ...

In September 2010, I had the opportunity to formalize a small training company I began approximately 10 years earlier. We named it LifeLine Training Ltd. Through hard work, the hiring ...