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For many in the academy class, the first shooting they experienced was during a training session at an abandoned building in Owings Mills

While police operations can be based on acronym-based mission-planning methodologies such as OCOKA, SMEAC and METT-TC — here are three alternative ways of considering tactical thinking

Because hope is not a strategy and luck is not a tactic, police agencies are well-served when the training unit builds a special use-of-force training day for the public, the press, and the politicians

We must apply NUM and the Three S Test to everything we do, instilling functional skills early and quickly by focusing on the simple basics

New philosophy was endorsed this week by President Obama’s 21st Century Policing task force

The six most dangerous words in a life-threatening situation are, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’

Overreaction prompts officers to fire fifty rounds at unarmed suspects — under-reaction leaves officers brutalized or dead

What makes a LEO turn from protector to punisher? How can we predict when this will happen and to whom? How do fellow officers react to an eruption of violence by one of their own?

If you’ve only attended training in your career, you cannot fully appreciate how difficult the task truly is when you deliver training