Almost 20 years ago, I attended a conference and listened to law enforcement trainer Phil Messina talk about the problems of using pain compliance to stop a violent attacker. This was well before I went into law enforcement myself, and, at the time, I scratched my head and wondered ...
Police officers are typically a straightforward, direct bunch. They’ll tell you when they think you’re doing something wrong, or when you could be doing it better. And mostly that’s good—we can’t afford to be dancing around one another’s feelings when we’re in a foot pursuit or ...
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother…”
Shakespeare’s Henry V, Act IV
Human history is a repeated dialogue of division. From the earliest times, humans have divided themselves into groups and then competed with ...
I start off with a quote from Sylvester Stallone. No, not, “Yo, Adrian.” And surely not, “Absolutely.” Rather, I start this article with something rather profound,
“If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours. See what happens.”
Yes, Sylvester ...
Every time we start reading anything that starts with “Once upon a time …” we can almost predict that the closing will end with something like “… and they lived happily ever after.” Most of the time such stories share epic tales with a message in the background, like those stories of ...
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