{"id":7674,"date":"2023-02-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2023-02-23T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T15:55:21","slug":"reasonable-justified-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reasonable-justified-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"REASONABLE, JUSTIFIED & NECESSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That\u2019s the title of a new book by an old friend of mine, a retired Federal law enforcement agent who has also served his country in the military.  He writes under the pseudonym of Dan Bernoulli. More than once, he has had to kill bad guys. His own experiences and what he\u2019s learned from other Good Guys who\u2019ve had to kill Bad Guys prompted him to write \u201cReasonable, Justified & Necessary: Exploring the professional, physical and psychological complexities of deadly force.\u201d His position is that training academies don\u2019t do enough to teach the physical skills necessary for the fight itself, nor nearly <\/em>enough to prepare them psychologically for mortal combat and ending another man\u2019s life if they are forced to do so in righteous cause. He writes, \u201c\u2026cultural-cognitive factors, which are always more difficult to measure in any meaningful way, are completely un-avoidable when it comes to the teaching of police recruits (or anyone for that matter) to kill another person. Despite this difficulty, to argue that these factors do not have an impact is folly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is aware of the elements of so-called \u201cpost-shooting trauma,\u201d and analyzes them. He writes, \u201cI had some disturbing dreams that interrupted my sleep almost nightly. Although I did not wake screaming or thrashing, I would often start awake with elevated breathing and some confusion as to where I was. It would then often take several hours for me to fall back to sleep afterward. These dreams have tapered off with time and are now only occasional visitors, though they remain rather vivid when they happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author is aware of how men like him are judged: in criminal courts, civil courts, and the courts of public opinion.  He observes, \u201cIf the way we train law enforcement professionals on this subject is to be improved, those improvements will have to be based on solid scholarship. Yet that scholarship needs to be accessible to both law enforcement professionals and non-law enforcement police administrators, politicians, judges, and citizens. These are the people who, like it or not, are vital stakeholders in deadly force training.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReasonable, Justified & Necessary<\/a>\u201d is important reading for anyone who keeps or carries a gun for defense of self and other innocent parties, and would qualify as \u201cmust read\u201d for those whose professions take them into harm\u2019s way while armed. It is currently available on Amazon, Kindle only at this time, and a second edition is in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the title of a new book by an old friend of mine, a retired Federal law enforcement agent who has also served his country in the military.  He writes under the pseudonym of Dan Bernoulli. More than once, he has had to kill bad guys. His own experiences and what he\u2019s learned from other Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}