Edged Weapons
The Edged Weapons topic covers news, tips, tactics and equipment officers need to defend against blade attacks. Whether it’s a butcher knife or a pocket knife, police officers face the threat of an edged weapon attack more often than a firearm.
Edged-weapon assaults are unpredictable, dynamic and deadly dangerous
Officer fitness, defensive tactics training and communication prevented tragedy during the takedown of an armed suspect
A reasonable and intelligent strategy for defeating terror attacks cannot focus on the tool used by the attacker, but must focus on the attacker himself
The indictment alleges the officers lied when they reported the teen aggressively swung a knife and tried to get up, while still armed, after he was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke
Deputy Josh Wiley was escorting Rodney Cole to the bathroom when Cole attacked him with a long screwdriver
The LEO who fought three extremists with only a baton thought he was going to die after being stabbed multiple times
Doctors have said Lt. Jeff Neville’s 12-inch wound caused significant bleeding but narrowly missed major arteries and a nerve
Jack Lee Ernest had several weapons, including brass knuckles, two knives and a sawed-off shotgun
The officers said they had no choice after Charleena Lyles tried to stab Officer Jason Anderson in the stomach and cornered Officer Steven McNew in the kitchen
The suspect was hiding in a closet before he lunged at officers with the knife
Lt. Jeff Neville, who underwent surgery Wednesday, remains in a local hospital where he is recovering
A criminal complaint says Amor Ftouhi asked an officer who subdued him why the officer didn’t kill him
A criminal complaint says Amor Ftouhi stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville with a large knife and declared “Allahu akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great”
The suspect was running between cars in the middle of the street
33-year-old Ricardo Garcia Sanchez was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
It was the fourth attempt in 10 days that deputies tried to take Joshua Anthony Barre in for a court-ordered mental evaluation
The suspect was given preliminary charges of attempted murder of a police officer in connection with a terrorist enterprise and crime of terrorist conspiracy
A public policy and safety model that openly displays an aversion to the use of force in self-defense may embolden, encourage terrorists
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but police searching the man’s residence found a declaration of allegiance to the Islamic State group
An officer was wounded in the attack, and the assailant was shot and wounded by a fellow officer
Italian officials said they had passed on their concerns about Youssef Zaghba to British intelligence officials last year
Police used flash-bang grenades and pepper balls to disperse the crowd after protesters hurled bricks and other objects at officers
Forty-eight people, including two police officers, were treated at hospitals across London
British media reported that more than one person had been killed in the rampage
Police said they’ll examine what appears to be the extremist ideology of a man accused of fatally stabbing two men when they tried to stop him from yelling anti-Muslim slurs at two women
The 30-year-old man was found to be in possession of three handguns, a shotgun, a knife, ammunition, and a variety of other handheld weapons along with wearing body armor
Agent Isaac Morales was fatally wounded when he was stabbed several times in an off-duty confrontation
The suspect is in custody
Hisaias Justo Lopez stabbed Isaac Morales after Morales identified himself as an agent
The suspect was stabbing a man repeatedly when the officer shot him
Ricky Lynn Hall, who had a long history of mental health problems, was being treated at a hospital when he stole a sharp-edged object and took a medical student hostage
The mother told Joshua Webb’s father that she believed their son was depressed, but the father said he never saw any indications of that when he spoke with his son
The officer was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries