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Tactics, Technology and Training for Today's Law Enforcement Professional

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Tactical Tools: Compliance & incapacitation munitions
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With the multitude of less lethal tools such as bean bag rounds available to SWAT, it can be difficult to determine how many different options a team needs
Night Vision: The GT-14 from N-Vision Optics
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By Greg White In recent years, police officers' use of night vision technology has increased, and night vision devices (NVDs) are now common in many patrol operations. With the information highway ...
Firearms: Training for Close-Quarter Combat
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By Dave Spaulding Click here to subscribe to Law Officer Magazine You may have to poke 'em in the eye Law enforcement is a profession of close contact with the public at large. To do their job, pol...
Legal Eagle: Moonlighting & Civil Liability
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Are you acting under color of law? by Laura L. Scarry Click here to subscribe to Law Officer Magazine PHOTO COURTESY DALLAS MORNING NEWS/CHERYL DIAZ MEYERDallas Police Officer Hector Roa (left) tal...
Tech Beat
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Tech Beat by Steve Ashley Emergency Communications What to do when your regular communications go down? Who can forget the images out of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during and following Hurrican...
Weapon-Mounted Lights
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2 models from PentagonLight By Chris Boyd Whether affixed to a primary sidearm, shoulderfired .223 entry weapon, 12- gauge shotgun, 40mm launcher or PepperBall gun, white light sources mounted on a...
Police Officers and the 1st Amendment
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Do you have a right to speak freely? No doubt, the public expects its law enforcement community to expose in-house wrongdoing, whether the bad act involves criminal, immoral, unethical or unprofess...
Fighting Multiple Adversaries
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Include multiple-target engagement in your training regimen We’ve all shot multiple-target drills. To start, the shooter usually stands seven yards from three evenly spaced targets. A buzzer or whi...
The Survival Bank
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By Kurt Levins Sr. This article first appeared in Law Officer magazine: Subscribe What if I told you I’d located a savings account that will accept credit cards from various sources, not cost you a...
Get the lead out: Reducing lead exposure on the gun range
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by Kathy HiltnerThis article first appeared in Law Officer magazine: SubscribePotentially dangerous exposures to lead can occur in both indoor and outdoor gun ranges. Lead originates from unjackete...
Handcuffing Survival
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Don’t underestimate the danger in this routine task By Dave Grossi This first appeared in "Law Officer" magazine. Click here to subscribe Statistics indicate roughly 70 percent of suspects resist a...
Benchmade’s RSK Mk1 Folding Knife
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By Dave Spaulding I've long said that if you have a reason to carry a gun, you should probably carry a knife. Anyone who needs a gun for personal security will likely face challenges requiring a bl...
The Charge Ti: Leatherman's latest multi-tool
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By Jeff Chudwin Click here to subscribe to Law Officer Magazine While searching the 2006 SHOT Show in February for new street and deployment gear, I met with the folks from the Leatherman Tool Grou...
Battle-Proven Eyewear
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Revision’s Sawfly ballistic eyewear provides safety & style By Dave Spaulding Click here to subscribe to Law Officer Magazine Everyone who works the street wears sunglasses—the job requires it. If ...
Buried Alive
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Officer Will Jimeno discussed his Sept. 11 ordeal & the upcoming movie By Dale Stockton Click here to subscribe to Law Officer Magazine PHOTO DALE STOCKTONJohn McLoughlin (left) and Will Jimeno (ri...
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