I remember almost every football coach I’ve ever had telling me to, “Get mad! Get angry!” at one point or another. It was a good life lesson at the time. It taught me how to use that anger to push passed the point of what I thought I could do. It taught me how to dig into the hidden ...
“It was very uncomfortable. It was disturbing to watch.”
That’s what the Euclid, Ohio, mayor said about a recent physical altercation between one of the city’s police officers and a motorist.
She’s right: It is uncomfortable and disturbing to watch. That doesn’t mean, however, ...
Law enforcement, like the military, doesn’t have a "suicide problem." We have a suicide project. For every officer that takes his/her own life, there are thousands of us pushing patrol cars around wondering why we don't floor it into a wall or off the road. We need some grassroots ...
Every one of you should be drilling this video. Studying it.
What did you learn?
It happens so fast. What would you do?
Times up.
Here's what I think. Let's ignore the background of the suspect, ignore how many times the officer repeated himself, let's just focus on ...
[Publisher’s Note: I recently spoke with Dr. Elisha Goldstein, a psychologist and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Living, about what mindfulness practice is and how it can help first responders. The Center for Mindful Living is interested in helping first responders and is ...
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