Tag: Magazine Feature

My partner and I, working in plainclothes, were on the trail of a dangerous criminal. Our investigation led us to a rundown trailer park that also had a few small ...

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.

“Where’s your paperwork?” I ask this question of many of my students during the practical phases of my 5 Day Reality Based Training instructor school. Far too often, trainers who ...

Around noon on a cold but sunny weekday in February, you re on routine patrol when dispatch sends you to a location in a residential neighborhood. The dispatcher informs you ...

What gets you sued gets you hurt. It s that simple. Use-of force and motor-vehicle operations remain the high-risk areas of law enforcement. Look at the reports of officer injuries ...

Dear Bullethead:

This article will inform the ballistic-shield operator how to safely and effectively deploy a shield. But first, a caveat: The tactical element is responsible for effective and safe tactical decision-making. ...

One of the first priorities of any cop responding to an incident is to secure the scene and keep the situation from getting worse. We learn this early and suffer ...

As a fan of military documentaries, I try to get a sense of what the troops are using in Afghanistan and Iraq for perimeter and entry work they ought to ...

Early in my undercover career, I shot and killed an armed assailant. In the immediate aftermath of this traumatic encounter, I paused and focused with tunnel vision on the dead ...