BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY CONTINUES

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Instructors who are gentle but firm with the students.  Instructors who explain “Here’s why we do what we do here,’ as opposed to “This is the doctrine!!”  Instructors who actually get out there in...

COMMERCIAL BREAK

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We pause for a brief commercial announcement. An attorney friend wrote me this morning to say, “… been following your blog, great stuff.  Forgive my crass, sniveling, pond-scum lawyer attitude BUT, you ought to be plugging...

Part II: Where PERF Was PERF-ect

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As I said in the last entry (found immediately below this one), the Police Executive Research Forum had a lot of things right in its recent controversial 30-point list of suggest use of force...

FROM THE QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF THE MONTH DEPARTMENT

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In November, a starry-eyed professor postulated that the first cartridge in every police officer’s gun should be a blank. Had the prof done the slightest bit of research, he would have learned that blanks won’t...

SOBERING KNOWLEDGE FROM COPS

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The week before last, I attended and taught at the annual conference of ILEETA, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. Despite the economy, the event drew some 725 police trainers from around...