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You've done everything right so far. You inquired from dispatch about prior call history and whether weapons are involved. You parked a couple of houses from the residence. You made ...

There's an old saying that goes: "There are two kinds of shooters--those who have had negligent discharges, and those who will. Well, some instructors take exception to this fatalism, claiming ...

Gary (Ind.) Police Department Patrolman Benjamin Wilcher was killed when another patrol car collided with his unit during a vehicle pursuit. Both officers were involved in a high-speed pursuit of ...

In the law enforcement training matrix, EVOC remains perhaps the most difficult curriculum to develop and implement correctly. It isn t because the principles of driver training or the physics ...

Before deciding to engage in any vehicle chase, you must weigh all the risks of initially engaging, and then continuing, in a high-speed pursuit.

A recurring theme of this column has been ways and means for smaller agencies or individual officers to make their training more realistic. I m convinced no one taking the ...

Several people have had a very powerful impact on my life. Some have been in formal positions of leadership. Others were peers or colleagues of the same rank. All have ...

It's the basics that win out. Be it gear or tactics, the simple version usually rules. I've believed that and lived it for many years, so it's not easy for ...

There are two words I hate, says Stu Segall, owner of the Strategic Operations Training Center in San Diego, and those are paintball and moulage. We don t play paintball ...

It goes without saying that to stop a vehicle, police officers must have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. This standard is so low that a traffic stop for a ...