By Calibre Press Instructor Major Donna Kinsey, (Ret.)
On January 27, New York City Police Officers were repeatedly kicked and beaten outside of a migrant shelter near Times Square. As the video went viral and streamed across social media and national news channels, viewers ...
Just days ago, a PBS NewsHour segment claimed that more than 1,000 people died between 2012 and 2021 “after police used physical force that is considered non-lethal.” The piece cited batons, CEWs, physical restraint techniques and chemical agents as the “non-lethal” elements ...
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By Lt. Kelly DeVoll (ret.), Calibre Press Instructor
“Hands kill!” This mantra has been repeated time and time again in the law enforcement industry. Many times, this statement has been made when the conversation is broached about why we tell someone to take their hands out of ...
In last week’s Calibre Press newsletter, Instructor Kelly DeVoll discussed the critical importance of scanning while engaged with a subject. Kelly’s “priority of scan” sequence is hands, waist, face, head-to-toe. Numerous officers wrote in to share their own thoughts. Here's what a ...