After our article, Active Shooter: Coming to a Theater Near You? Advice From the Front Line, we received the following response from recently retired Director of Public Safety, Richard Fairburn in Canton, IL. Richard's insights come backed with 40 years of expansive law enforcement ...
By Sgt. Stefan Bjes
9 Characteristics & Tips for Contact
Editor's note: Given increasing focus on law enforcement's interaction with people with Autism we're reprinting this article from an earlier Calibre posting.
When I began my law enforcement career I had never ...
By Jim Glennon
The push from many quarters of this country (both the sane and insane) is that law enforcement as we know it needs to be reformed.
I agree.
I’m not kidding, I totally agree.
And no, I’m not capitulating to the hysterical throngs who have no idea ...
By Chief Scott Hughes
Since the development of the tire deployment device (TDD), not a year has passed without the loss or serious injury of officers involved with their use—be it preparing for deployment, executing deployment, or post-deployment retrieval. Already, after just four ...
Ultimately, in the end, enforcing social distancing rules, falls to the cops.
Governors in 42 states have declared edicts restricting constitutionally protected and inalienable rights; an edict that two months ago would have been unimaginable and unquestionably illegal. Even ...
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