Tag: Magazine Feature

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 ...

Few reading this haven t heard of Blackwater. The training company/facility that morphed into providing security for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq after the Sept. 11 attacks has ...

I was working a plainclothes unit targeting an identified crime problem when we received a call to phone the station. The manager of a local ice cream store had phoned ...

I sat down with Gordon Graham the other day and talked at length with him about law enforcement trainers. (By the way, I ll use the latter term interchangeably with ...

So, you ve decided reality based training (RBT) is the way to go. You ve bought some gear, read an article or two on the best practices, spent a couple ...

This article is the first in a two-part series on post traumatic stress syndrome; i.e., how it affects investigators and officers, and what we can do about it. I recently ...

The opportunity to purchase new equipment doesn't always happen because you need new equipment. More than likely, you've needed new equipment for quite a while. More often, you have a ...

I received a couple magazine-worthy questions this month, and I appreciate them. Keep them coming because I need more. I was working on one of those questions when I had ...

Officers are prepared to respond to all levels of threat, from heckling to deadly force. That's why we have a variety of force options on our belts and why we ...

Police officers can be gadget freaks. We re willing to add any gizmo to our firearms to gain an edge. Recently, I shot some rounds downrange with a tactical officer ...