Today we touch on the physical and mental requirements to do the job - and ways to stay in shape both physically and mentally and keep it all in balance. Tips are given to increase one's mental ...
Do you know what to do when a fellow officer is in immediate emotional crisis…when you know some kind of intervention needs to occur now? You simply can’t leave him or her alone. What do you ...
Officers are trained to help others in emotional crisis, but typically not trained, at least enough, to help themselves. That’s a major problem! What can you as a law enforcement leader and as ...
Billings, MT, April 2014, an officer stops a vehicle and finds a passenger Richard Ramirez in the car. Ramirez is known to the officer and is wanted for a robbery and shooting that occurred a ...
On January 12, 1998,, Deputy Kyle Wayne Dinkheller of the Laurens County, Georgia, sheriff's office, pulled over a truck for speeding. The driver, Andrew Brannan, exited and Dinkheller ...
More officers die from heart attacks than as the result of violent assaults. Calibre's Lt. Jim Glennon looks into why that may be and what you can do to protect yourself from becoming a victim ...
In 2019 there were up to five instances in New York where NYPD officers were assaulted with buckets of water and buckets being thrown at them. The officers in each instance decided not to react. ...
Tara O'Sullivan, 26, still in training was shot by a man with a rifle on a domestic standby. She was pinned down for over 40 minutes, officers could not get to her. She died. While officers were ...
A Los Angeles County Deputy stopped a woman for using her cell phone in traffic and the woman went on a racist rant against the officer. The woman was described as a Mexican who wanted to be white.
Daunte Wright resisted arrest on a traffic stop. Officer Kim Potter, assisting yelled, "Taser, Taser" and then mistakenly fired her handgun killing the man. Potter immediately had a visceral ...
On December 18, 2021, officers responded to a 911 call reference a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex. The suspect, a 34-year-old male, approached the officers armed with a knife. He ...