{"id":8296,"date":"2024-04-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2024-03-18T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:55:53","slug":"thought-provoking-commentary-from-a-respected-lawman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/thought-provoking-commentary-from-a-respected-lawman\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHT-PROVOKING COMMENTARY FROM A RESPECTED LAWMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first met Dave Smith many years ago. He was on the Board I reported to at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers where I served as chair of the Firearms\/Deadly Force Training Committee. His career in law enforcement (Arizona Department of Public Safety) was stellar, and his career since in police training, even more so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He speaks for many of us\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policemag.com\/home\/featured\/article\/15665979\/dave-smith-a-blood-sacrifice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this recently published essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Dave Smith many years ago. He was on the Board I reported to at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers where I served as chair of the Firearms\/Deadly Force Training Committee. His career in law enforcement (Arizona Department of Public Safety) was stellar, and his career since in police training, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8296","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\/8296","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=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}