HESITANCIES TO SHOOT IN DEADLY FORCE SITUATIONS
I recently attended a police gunfight survival course (once I retired these courses are very inexpensive). The SWAT police captain showed a film of an officer shot in a traffic stop. Cars were quite apart. At least 30-ish yards? Rural remote...
The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8 officers are killed while sitting in patrol cars and perhaps 10–20 shot but surviving in similar situations. Back in the 1970s, the ’80s, and even the ’90s, the phrase “the car as a coffin” was already a warning, a cop training phrase, a “word to the wise” about being stuck in a car and getting killed by an outside shooter. The advice was simple:
THE DISTRACTED GUNMAN
Gun disarms. It’s tricky business.In 26 years on the job, I have disarmed only a handful […]
WHERE WE LIVE, WE CAN’T HAVE A GUN OR A KNIFE, SO WHY SHOULD I?
I teach in some 8-10 countries a year, so I am in highly restricted weapon […]
IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!
Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early […]
INTERRUPTING THE QUICK DRAW
“Interrupting the Quick Draw.” or, sometimes I’ve call “Gun Arm Grappling.” Martial, police and military material […]
Shooting Targets and Political Correctness
Haven’t we all seen through the years, the paper targets of angry men holding guns and […]
Drop It! What’s in YOUR Gun Hand?
Drop it! In police work we are told to never have anything in our gun hand, […]
Ankle Breaks in Gunfights
Through the 1970s to the 1990s, I noticed a tripping accident was fairly common in line […]