By Jim Glennon
Last week I wrote a column titled, A College Degree Proves What? Police Agencies Should Rethink the Necessity of College Degrees for Applicants. I intended to spark some discussion, and, well, it certainly did. We received emails, comments, personal stories and ...
By Jim Glennon
Should college degrees be a requirement to become a police officer?
I have two bachelor’s degrees. I also have a master’s degree in Law Enforcement Justice Administration.
What do those degrees and diplomas say, prove, attest about me as a person?
What do ...
Calibre has just launched a powerful new training tool called The Vault that will greatly enhance your in-house training efforts and documentation.
The Vault is comprised of an ever-growing collection of hundreds of short (avg. 5-7 minutes), training point-rich videos that are ...
We received considerable feedback on our most recent newsletter that featured the article, Defeating the Blur: Rethinking Traditional Police Training to Close Quarter Spontaneous Attacks by trainers Chris Butler and Dan Fraser.
One response in particular shared an interesting ...
There are many people—perhaps a shockingly high number—who fervently believe that cops are super-humans. They believe they can override the inherent limitations of their minds and bodies because they’ve been trained to do so. They believe they can move quicker, think faster and see, ...
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