I’ve been practicing, studying, and teaching some type of combat discipline for the last 40 years. For 30 of those years, I’ve been continuously involved in martial arts. I’m fortunate enough to have had some phenomenal martial arts teachers over the years, and I’d like to share one ...
Prepping for a media firestorm
Law enforcement attorney and media consultant, Lance LoRusso, is a vehement proponent of hitting negative news reports, particularly those that spread inaccurate, skewed or flat out false information, head-on. As LoRusso sees it, sitting by and not ...
Part 2 of a 2-part series
In the first installment of this series, we dove into an iconic FBI report, In the Line of Fire: Violence Against Law Enforcement, authored by law enforcement researchers Dr. Anthony Pinizzotto, Edward Davis and Charles Miller. This groundbreaking ...
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-- New Court Decision on Handcuffing Injured Subjects
Earlier this year a federal district court in Indiana offered some important reminders about the usually mundane procedure of handcuffing a subject
In this case, two officers and their ...
I’ve attended many training classes in which the instructor warned against complacency and its associated dangers and I’ve heard various definitions of the word: A feeling of security while being unaware of potential dangers, or the state of being content, or failing to pay ...
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