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“A bad day at the range…” Improving the range day for your officers
Very little can be more frustrating than showing up for a training day on the range and realizing very quickly that the instructor or instructors don’t have a plan. Putting “rounds downrange” has its...
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Firearms: Shoot/Don’t Shoot Training on the Cheap
Every day we have officers that are on the street, or “in the stack” carrying a firearm that they are ready and prepared to use against another human being in defense of themselves or another person....
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Why Snipers?
Most of us have an image in mind when we hear the term “sniper”. Based on our life experience we either picture a lone gunman in a clock tower randomly shooting “targets of opportunity” or we picture...
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Single Officer Traffic Stops
Almost every officer who has worked the street has done more traffic stops than any other task we provide. From the first few days in an FTO program throughout our careers we will each, individually,...
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“So, you want to start an Emergency Response Team.”
This is a copy of an answer to an E-Mail request from a smaller department that wanted to start an Emergency Response Team. The question to me was, “What do we need to look at for equipment?”...
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Excerpt “The Pack Mentality and the Leadership Lessons of Ike”
The Pack Mentality and the Leadership Lessons of “Ike” by Corey D Roberts “If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence...
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Firearms: Develop a “Course of Fire”
I have written a lot about Firearms instruction and the need to have a plan when running a “range day”. We all are very aware of the problems with not having a plan and the potential liabilities. So...
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The Personal Mission Statement
So you had the guts to open this article. That’s a good start. Most of the time when I mention a Mission Statement to the warriors that I work with, I get reactions that range from a single raised...
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