Nobody is coming to do it for you The power of professional self-reliance By Antonio Zarzoza for American Police Beat | Photo Generated by 911MEDIA staff When I was assigned to our department’s training academy more than 15 years ago, I felt like I had finally been invited into the [...]
Why Forgetting Can Make Firearms Training More Effective Research shared by Officer.com suggests forgetting is not always a flaw in human memory and might help police officers and firearms students retrieve the right information and make better decisions under pressure. By Keith Hanson What to Know Forgetting is not inherently [...]
Working Dog Magazine on Tracking and Trailing: Beyond the Find In a 2026 double-blind mantrailing study, teams reached the wrong person more than twice as often as the correct target. During the scent-discrimination trials, teams located the correct person in 9 percent of searches and an incorrect person in 19 [...]
Missouri Department of Public Safety hosts regional incident management training courses designed specifically for active attack and critical incident response New courses from the ALERRT Center for first responders and response agency leaders are approved for POST Continuing Law Enforcement Education training credit JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Public [...]
Firearms training already teaches morality through culture and incentives, whether instructors acknowledge it or allow it to develop through unchecked drift. Keith Hanson for OFFICER.COM What to know Firearms training is not morally neutral; instructors shape judgment and restraint through what they reward, tolerate and normalize, even when morality is never [...]
By Richard Hough & Hannah Burkhart for Calibre Press | Calibrepress.com It’s a routine call. You’re positioned behind a vehicle, watching movement inside. You’ve dropped your center of gravity—slightly crouched, balanced, ready. You’re not thinking about it. It’s just where your body goes when attention sharpens. Seconds pass. Then more. [...]
By Richard Hough & Hannah Burkhart for Calibre Press | calibrepress.com It’s a routine stop. Nothing unusual. You’ve run the plate. You’re watching the driver’s hands. You’re already thinking ahead—what this might be, what it might become. Then the door opens. And he runs. Not a jog. Not hesitation. Full [...]
By Coach Tony Blauer “Use of force should never look emotional. It should simply be “use of force.” I have studied violence, fear, and aggression for 40+ years. During that period, I have studied actual footage and used that footage to design and conduct thousands of very realistic scenarios. [...]
By Inspector Chris Butler (ret.) for Calibre Press | calibrepress.com Part 2 of a 2-part series Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this series, trainer Chris Butler shared in-depth explanations of the characteristics and differences between two types of aggression—“Primal” aggression which is easy to recognize and “Cognitive” aggression, which surfaces without [...]
The management of light to you advantage can be as important in the daytime as it is at night. In an interview with Calibre, a California sergeant reminded officers that when doing an outdoor search with the sun at your back, your shadow will reach a corner of a [...]
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