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It’s important for officers not to treat entering and processing indoor marijuana grows as a routine event
The manner in which the assault on the Inland Regional Center was carried out holds some hallmarks of attacks we have seen overseas such as in Paris and Mali last month, and Mumbai in 2008
Incorporating a formal toolset into an agency’s social media program can dramatically help officers sift through data at a very large scale
Resilience is the term that best describes our goal in the Street Survival Seminar to make you more likely to “win!” in life
Officer James Peters of Scottsdale (Ariz.) PD just had his sixth OIS — some reporters have decided there’s something wrong with that on its face
Police officers are constantly collecting information — the difficulty lies in effectively using that information over time
Applying the law of large numbers to recent officer fatalities may reveal a disturbing trend — at the very least it makes us stop and think
Failing to understand that humans are in a constant state of communication can be deadly
Police received a call about a man who disconnected gas lines
Police say robbery suspect assaulted officer before she fired her weapon
Officer Kevin Wilkins was trying to put a rubber sleeve on the grip of his pistol when it discharged
Police instructors have to plan training scenarios according to an ever-changing landscape — this may mean throwing the “standard directions” overboard
Smaller agencies under budget constraints are “doing more with less” and getting on board with mobile shooting ranges
Customs, ICE officers ‘did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms’
Officers were trying to arrest a registered sex offender
Police encounters against armed assailants are on the rise — how can we ensure that cops win those fights?
“There’s no doubt in my mind that this is the wave of the future in policing,” Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher says.
The trooper survived an attempted execution, adding to law-enforcement fears that they are being targeted for violence
Amid the mix of police radios, laptop computers, and license plate readers, we also have cell phones to distract us
Off-duty officer Shannon Lee Fredman was found dead at his home
Your sidearm will never be a carbine, but it will be there when you need it, provided you brought it in the first place and you have the skill to use it effectively
Less lethal weapons and training are always improving, and in generations to come, we’ll have new tools and resources
In an open area of the woods known as “the shooting range” Officer Vann Streety survived a deadly ambush through his own sheer force of will
The men were arrested in two separate incidents
Car went off highway and rolled a number of times
Hundreds of thousands of cops have been impacted by a seminar that began with a dozen officers crammed into an elementary school classroom
Lt. Eric Shuhandler was shot in the head during a traffic stop
Multiple-attacker scenarios are very survivable — additional opponents provide you with additional targets to hit!