Vance "Fox" Rosen

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Lieutenant Vance ‘Fox’ Rosen serves as a member of a metropolitan county police department. He brings nearly two decades of public safety experience to his writing, having gained his knowledge serving in patrol, criminal investigations, training, detention, dispatch, and SWAT as both an entry team member, as well as a sniper. Vance holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgia Southern University in Criminal Justice, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Columbus State University. He is a graduate of the Georgia Law Enforcement Command College.

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How I learned to constantly test my OODA loop
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OODA loop tests are administered by the police gods on every single call to which we respond and every stop or encounter we initiate
Why training police merely to qualify isn’t enough
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Our training should be designed to simulate — as closely as possible — real-life encounters
How to revamp your training unit
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When I took command of my agency’s training unit in 2009, we were doing great work in the cognitive areas, but I felt that in the skills areas we could use some work — there was a widening gap betw...
Using IBM's playbook in police management
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Let’s take a page from the old IBM playbook and let our troops — and their families — know how much we appreciate them
The future of policing is every cop's responsibility
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If we want professional, well-trained, courteous officers with good attitudes, then we must demonstrate those attributes ourselves
Leadership 101: Let your troops learn from mistakes
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Often we fail to give the big picture to our subordinates and instead guide each and every phase of an operation
Be the firefly: Fighting with a flashlight
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I’m a big fan of controlling all the variables in a fight that I can, but if I turn on the lights, the suspect and I are on equal footing
Do you know where your authority comes from?
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Ask your officers where they get their authority from and you’ll get a variety of answers — not all (or even many) of them good