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36 CQB? BFD! RICH GRASSI

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40 PARA ORDNANCE COLONEL & LTC DAVE DOUGLAS

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52 THE COP’S CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE JOHN CONNER

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58 TACTICAL PERFECTION STEVE ALBRECHT

Creating your own “routine” survival system.

65 DIFFERENT COPS FOR DIFFERENT CROOKS GEORGE ELISEO

Pro-Active, Reactive, and not very active at all.

70 OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES RICH DEPARIS

Dysfunctional management and the problem it creates.

74 DEATH AT WHOSE HANDS DR. JOLEE J. BRUNTON

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Matt, I’m glad you like the magazine.We’ve been working really hard to makeit something real cops can use and enjoy.

BUT ARE YOU NUTS!!!!! MORE THAN

SIX ISSUES A YEAR!!! OH, OH, OH,(he said grabbing his chest), AN ISSUE EVERY TWO WEEKS: Holy crap, I just retired after 29.5 years. To get me to dothis, Roy Huntington threatened to usesome of the Polaroids he had from whenwe worked together in Mission Beach 20

years ago. He used Polaroid because the processor would never print the stuff. My

ex-wife would re-open the divorce caseand probably win. What could I do?We’ll try to make up for quantity withquality. Dave.

Get Over It In the main, I enjoyed the writing and

photography in your premier issue. I sus-pect your magazine will succeed byblending the best of shooting and lawenforcement related periodicals.

I applaud your successful effort to

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To attack and mock criminal

defense attorneys diminishes the

credibility of your magazine, the credibility of the author, and appears

childish and unprofessional.

More Issues?

I recently received my first issue of American COP and I think I’ve re-read thething 10 times over. You’ve done a great

job putting together a first-class magazine

geared towards the guys on the front line.I do have a small complaint. Why only sixissues a year? I’m sure you can come upwith enough “stuff” to fill a magazinetwice as big every two weeks when you’redealing with law enforcement. I love themagazine, top-notch stuff.

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create a unique and informative maga-zine, yet I must also comment on JeremyClough’s article titled “Things DistrictAttorneys Hate.” This article stood outfrom the rest of the content due to severalunprofessional comments.

Several times throughout the articleMr. Clough refers to criminal defense

attorneys as the “Weasel-for-the-Defense,” and goes so far as to refer tothe table at which defense counsel sitsduring trial as the “Scum Table.”

Mr. Clough’s comments may have beenmeant in jest, and I am certain he has closefriends that are criminal defense attorneys.However, to belittle criminal defense attor-neys in this manner reflects a disregard forone of the most important Constitutionalsafeguards the Founding Fathersenshrined, the sixth Amendment right tocounsel. It also reflects a certain ignoranceof the criminal justice system and further

cements the “us against them” mentalitythat plagues the criminal justice system,and our entire national political discourse.

No matter how frustrating the Govern-ment may find criminal defense counsel, itis one of the few safeguards against anExecutive branch bent on tyranny andinjustice. I wonder what Mr. Clough thinksabout the right to trial by a jury? Does hebelieve jurors sit in the “Idiot Box?” — oris that only when they fail to convict?

Imagine the howls that would be metby referring to an assistant district attorneyas “Jack Booted Liar For the Man” or theprosecution’s table as the “Nazi Table.”Sound offensive and ridiculous? If so, thenI think you understand my point.

To attack and mock criminal defenseattorneys diminishes the credibility of yourmagazine, the credibility of the author, andappears childish and unprofessional.

Please understand these are small crit-icisms of an otherwise well done 80+page issue. Good luck to you with an oth-erwise fine publication.

Mark MillenLos Gatos, CA

Mark, if you subscribed and want your

money back, please contact me via e-mailand I’ll be sure to have a check cut and sent out to you as quickly as possible.

I really thought we were clear on thisthroughout the promotion campaign. I absolutely positively refuse to be politicallycorrect. We’re not going to guard our wordsso as not to offend or put off any interest group. I truly believe the political correct-ness that has descended on our society overthe last two decades is leading us to becomea less tolerant people and more inclined tosue at the drop of a hat. The latter would of course be a good thing for you.

I know most attorneys aren’t bad peoplebut some defense attorneys take that “best defense” thing too far when they go into a“win at any cost” mode as we’ve seen in a

RETURNFIREnumber of high-profile cases lately.

As for Jeremy’s use of “Weasel-for-the-Defense” and “Scum Table” in hisarticle, Mark, it was funny. Maybe as anattorney (I checked) you don’t find it

funny but as a cop, I sure do. It’s called American COP for a reason. Get over it.

So, with the returned subscription check,

if you so request, go out and start your own Defense Attorney Magazine and you canwrite things like, “Jack Booted Liar For the

Man” or refer to the prosecution’s table asthe “Nazi Table” to your, evil, cold, defenseattorney heart’s content. If you do, let meknow, I’ll sign up for a subscription. It’salways good to see what the other side isthinking. Don’t you think? Oh, I guess youdo. Dave.

Tell It Like It Is I received the premier issue of Amer-

ican COP magazine yesterday and all Ican say is WOW! Ernest Emerson’s articleentitled, “Anatomy of a Knife Assault” isprobably the best written and most well-researched article on knife attacks I’veread. Much to my wife’s dismay, I was upto about 3 a.m. this morning reading thepremier copy; I was so enthralled with themagazine I couldn’t put it down. I couldhear my wife pissing and moaning withwhisk of every turning page. I was aboutto put the magazine down when I came toMr. Emerson’s article. He goes throughfour potential types of knife assaults, howto recognize them, and what to do in orderto survive. Ernie writes in an easy tofollow and concise manner, no $10 wordshere. I hope he continues writing for themagazine, his article is worth the price of the mag alone.

The article entitled, “Never Apologizefor Being in Command,” John Morrisonperfectly put into words sentiments Ihave felt since becoming an LEO. I nevercomprehended why a supervisor wouldapproach me and say, “I have a shitassignment that the Lt. wants you do.”(They didn’t even have the balls to saythey wanted it done, they always pass the

buck to the Lt. or higher). I would alwaystell them, “You’re supposed to be theboss, tell me what needs to be done.” Ithink you hit a home run with AmericanCOP, now FMG Publications needs todevote a magazine to knives!

John H. Del Pinto

John, thanks for the kind word sabout the magazine. I’ll see to it Ernieand John get a copy of your note. I can’t think of too many folks in the world whocan match Ernie’s knowledge of knife

fighting. John has been a “tell it like it

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other divisions would attend just for theexperience. Dave.

I'll Kill You I just wanted to say you guys have

masterminded a very good magazine. Iwent through the premier issue twicealready. I learn something new each time.

The article on hesitation kills is right onthe money. I probably wouldn’t be here

today if I’d have hesitated. I had a guy tryto stab me multiple times and he was inhandcuffs. Yea, he got out of them. He torehis hands up pretty good getting them out.He was screaming at me “I will kill you,”he stated this several times. I didn’t hesitatewhen things went to hell. I did as I wastrained to do in these situations and now Ialways think about what can happen andhow to react to it every time I go to work.

As a Firearms Instructor, I teach thathesitation kills. Why DA’s laugh at you isalso right on the money.

I look forward to many years of your

magazine, keep up the great work ....Officer John HansenMaricopa County Sheriff’s Office

John, thanks for the encouragement.We’ll try to keep them coming. Hopefully

you’ll find all the issues have something inthem you can use. Dave.

Reserves Count Too As soon as I saw there was to be a

“COP” magazine, I subscribed. The “Pre-mier Issue” out-did the advanced promo-tions. I particularly liked Charles E. Petty’sarticle on “The Reserves.” Being a Lieu-tenant in the Mount Vernon, NY AuxiliaryPolice I couldn’t help but focus on theissues facing reserves and auxiliary. InMount Vernon we’re not looked upon tookindly by officers of the “Official” police,and are constantly defending our worth andacceptance. Instead of being an integral partof the police we’ve been relegated to theDepartment of Veteran’s Affairs. There’s alarge, virtually untapped market out there inthe reserves and auxiliary police depart-ments in the United States, “Go for it.”

rlichtman via email

I agree fully. Reserves are becoming anendangered species throughout the country.

More and more training requirements arebeing placed on them. They are under-uti-lized and under-appreciated. Dave.

Minutiae Again Your contrite and dismissive response

to my plight, as a supervisor, as containedin the Return Fire section of the first edi-tion of American COP Magazine, appearsto have elevated your standing amongst

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RETURNFIREfrom what I thought was a confidentialplea for help from all your years of expe-rience as a fellow sergeant of police.

I guess I should have seen the signs upin Arizona just before you retired. Lots of talk about how you were “one of theboys” and how you were dedicating allyour editorial expertise to “telling it like

it is” for all the real-world police. If youwere “one of the boys” how come the restof the team had normal rooms in themotel but you had a two-storey (storyhere in the US) luxury apartment in a sep-arate part of the complex?

You also took a low shot, not unlikeyour performance on the range, at how weAustralians spell. So Mr. Editor, whoproofread page 27 of edition 1 which hadthe Les Baer full-page add (here we use ad as in advertisement and add as in addi-tion?) and its little mistake? People inglass houses Mr. Douglas!

I shall be reading your magazinewith interest from now on Mr. Douglas,so I suggest you turn your spell checkeron, proofread it and be a little morecaring and sharing with your advice.Perhaps Mr. Hoff, one of your formercolleagues can advise you on issues of empathy and kindness to others?

Greg Martin, Sergeant of PoliceAustralia

I t ’ s n o t a p r i n t i n g e r r o r . I t ’ s s o y o u c a n r e a d t h i s i n y o u r h e m i s p h e r e .

G r e g , Y o u h a v e n o i d e a h o w a m u s e d I a m a t t h e i d e a o f y o u p o u r i n g o v e r e v e r y s i n g l e w o r d o f t h e m a g a z i n e t o c o m e u p w i t h s u c h a g r i e v o u s e r r o r a s a d o u b l e w e a n d b u l l s e y e s p e l l e d w i t h o u t t h e ‘ s . ’ T h e v i s u a l o f y o u s i t t i n g a t y o u r d e s k , e v e r y t h i n g p r e c i s e l y p l a c e d , n o t h i n g s o m u c h a s a m i l - l i m e t e r o f f i t s m a r k a n d p e e r i n g i n t e n t l y t h r o u g h a n a n t i q u e m a g n i f y i n g g l a s s i s p r e - c i o u s t o m e . A n d t h e n t h e m o m e n t o f d i s - c o v e r y c o m e s ; y o u s h o u t , “ a h - h a , g o t y o u , D o u g l a s y o u b u g g e r , a d o u b l e w e . ” T h e n t h e l a u g h t e r b e c o m e s s o i n t e n s e o t h e r s i n t h e r o o m b e c o m e u n c o m f o r t a b l e e s p e c i a l l y

k n o w i n g y o u r p a s t . G r e g , h a v e t h e t e c h n i - c i a n s m o v e t h e e l e c t r o d e s a l i t t l e f u r t h e r a p a r t a t y o u r n e x t “ t r e a t m e n t . ”

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Y et even after H.R. 218 was passedin Congress and signed into lawby the President, some states,agencies and politicians continue

to block this life-saving law. Take NewYork City for example; an internal depart-ment memo obtained by LEAA, directsNYPD officers who encounter a fellowofficer carrying a firearm in accordancewith the cop carry law to seize the gun,

detain the person, and call a supervisoronto the scene. From there, the supervisoris to keep the gun and person in custodyuntil the persons off duty or retired cre-dentials can be verified through thedepartment and the person’s home agency.Welcome to New York City. Can youimagine if every time the NYPD stopped adriver with an out-of-state driver’s licensethey were to detain the driver, impoundthe car, call a Sergeant on the scene thenwait until the Department brass couldverify the validity of the driver’s license?

But you don’t have to travel to anti-

gun New York City to find H.R. 218

y ou need to make your voice heard;we don’t have the right to remainsilent on this issue. If you wantthis law to be more than just

words on paper, you’ve got to takeaction. Write your Governor and StateAttorney General today and ask who isresponsible and what is being done toimplement the Law Enforcement Offi-cers Safety Act. As the Chief ExecutiveOfficer and Chief Law EnforcementOfficer of your state, both of thesepoliticians have no excuse not to provide

a clear and prompt answer.If they write back with some sorry

excuse as to why they think the law can’twork in their state, send a copy to myoffice: LEAA, Attn: HR 218 Task Force,7700 Leesburg Pike Suite 421, FallsChurch, VA 22043. We need to see exactlywhat the opposition is saying in this fight.

LEAA succeeded in getting the copcarry bill singed into law thanks to thededicated grassroots of supporters likeyou, now we need your help once again if we are to be victorious in ensuring thatthis law is carried

out properly.

Alittle over a year ago, I stood with Representative Randy “Duke”Cunningham (R-CA) in the White House. Together, Duke and Iwatched with pride as President Bush fulfilled a campaign promiseto America’s law-enforcement community and signed H.R. 218 —

national concealed carry for cops — into law. That day came after more thana decade of fighting to get Congress to pass this law. Today, more than a

year after the President signed the bill, LEAA is still fighting as manystates drag their feet implementing this lifesaving law and other politi-

cians and agencies work to obstruct it.When LEAA and Representative Cunningham first

announced our intention to pass a national concealed carrylaw for qualified off-duty and retired cops, we were told it was

impossible. Worse yet, in the early years, some big name policeunions actually opposed our idea. Yet this simple idea caught onwith the rank and file. Every two years, when Congress convened a

new session, LEAAwould team up with Cunningham to re-introduce the legislation. Soon some of the very same groupsinitially opposed to H.R.-218 were pushing their ownwatered-down versions. Eventually, those police groups joined us in support of the bill with Congressman Cun-ningham.

opponents still working to obstruct thelaw. In Texas of all places, we’ve receivedreports of LE agencies refusing to issueretired ID cards to their former officers.With some states and jurisdictionsseeking to block the law, others are hardat work trying to water it down, claimingthat entire groups of law enforcementofficers should not be covered.

The fight for national concealed carry

for cops is far from over — and if youwant to make sure you are able to protectyourself and your family when travelingout of state or in your retirement, you needto take action. Every day I get officerswriting or calling LEAA asking what canthey do to help. It’s simple — the samethings we did to get the law passed. Firstyou need to make sure you’re an LEAAmember — because LEAA Members, andonly LEAAmembers, are the ones whohave been leading this fight from the verybeginning. You can do that by visiting ourWeb site at www.leaa.org or call our head-

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MARK HANTENCARRYOPTIONSFROM HOLSTERS TO HAVERSACKS.

A ker Leather makes another holsterfor the 340PD that deserves atten-tion. The D.A. is a simple yet func-

tional paddle holster. It offers good reten-tion via a tension screw and has the sim-plicity and speed of a strapless holster.

The paddle Aker uses is unique and adefinite cut above the average. Arigidpolycarbonate contoured paddle has lib-erally interspaced air holes throughout —allowing it to “breathe.” Dual retentionbarbs on the paddle hold the holster inposition yet make it easy to remove whenyou want to take it off.

The D.A. is a professional and attrac-tive holster. It’s a perfect match withAker’s reinforced gun/dress belt. It’s themost comfortable and attractive one I’ve

ever worn. A polymer insert of just theright size provides enough rigidityallowing great flexibility and comfort.The stitching adds an attractive accentto the overall look and makes it a stepabove nylon web belts without sacri-ficing comfort.

Having somehow survived mycomplacent phase of not always car-rying my gun, I’ve seen the error of my ways. And like an ex-smoker, Inow display a certain zeal for con-

verting others. If you haven’t got onealready, get yourself a compact titanium

pistol. You will be well on yourway to a total conversion.

Abig step came when I bought a Smith & Wesson Model340PD. It’s a S&W’s titanium .38+ P+ hammerlesssnub-nosed revolver and it’s reinvented off-duty carryfor me. I even carry it on-duty as a backup and

when I’m working plain-clothes assignments. Weighing inat 11 ounces, it is so light you forget it’s there.

I like to carry the 340 in an ankle holster. Not justany ankle holster but the Galco Ankle Glove. It’s themost comfortable ankle holster I’ve ever worn.The reduced weight is a big relief and leads towearing the combination pretty much when-ever you want — in casual dress or even asuit. There were several times that I camehome from a 10-hour shift and continued

wearing the gun around the house forhours because I forgot I had it on.

Another great way to carry a 340PD isin an Aker Leather Pocket Protector holster.The Pocket Protector is a very simple holsterdesigned to ride in your front pants pocket or

jacket pocket. The cargo pocket in 5.11 Tacticalpants is an ideal place to discretely carry thelightweight 340. A flat leather flap on the outsideprevents the gun from printing when inside thepocket. It also keeps the butt of the gun positionedproperly for drawing. Even with the slightly addedsize of kingwood grips from Hogue, the gun fitsnicely and is quickly accessible. In fact, the added size

of the Hogue grip makes quick retrieval a little easier.

A great thing about being a cop is you get to carry a gun wheneveryou want. If you’re like most of us, you go through phases of gun carrying throughout your career. When you’re newly sworn,it’s the honeymoon phase and you carry your gun everywhere

— even in the shower if you can find a waterproof holster. After a fewyears, you slip into thatcomfortable period whereyou just don’t carry onemuch at all. As with manythings in life, 9/11changed the latter for me.

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BOB DAVISHIGHTECHCUTTING EDGE WIDGETS — AND OTHER NEW STUFF.

from the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) to detect and locate hostile gunfire in places like Iraqand Afghanistan by calculating range and bearing.

Back here in the US, one of the leading developers of thistechnology is Safety Dynamics, LLC of Oak Brook, Illinois. CEOBryan Baker believes this technological leap gives law enforce-ment agencies one more advantage. You now have the advantageof both eyes and ears. Baker says, “Our system can be trained torecognize certain sounds or sound patterns such as gunshots,breaking glass, automobile collisions, explosions and triangulate

on their source.” The technology hasbecome so smart it can discriminate “trainedsounds” from background noises such ascars backfiring or fire crackers.

Once you’ve recognized the sound of anincident, having the camera technology getsyou instant notification and the images nec-essary to begin a thorough investigation.That means responding units get to the scenemuch faster dramatically raising the proba-bility of a successful arrest.

Safety Dynamic’s Smart Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition or SENTRItechnology in combination with video pan-tilt-zoom cameras definitely creates aForce Multiplier and passive deterrent to criminal activity. In Chicago, policeofficials have installed SENTRI pods on streetlights solving two immediate tech-

nical problems, power and lighting. The SENTRI pods are highly visible measuringtwo feet wide by three feet tall. They’re clearly marked with the Chicago PD Shield —some are even equipped with lightbars.

These systems include a microphone sensor array, remote video camera capable of rotating 360 degrees that tilts up and down 90 degrees and a zoom lens. As we saw withcameras from London, with proper placement or saturation increases the chances of acquiring useful data. Safety Dynamics calls this Sensor Fusion and it’s an importantconsideration in system design.

Using some of the newest wireless technologies the systems have the ability of

sending wireless video signals to nearby patrol cars. With receivers installed in strategi-cally positioned squad cars, field officers can view first person video on their laptops. It’sthere for you to see and act upon as safely as possible. For redundancy, Chicago’s emer-gency management center also receives the video and can direct other units.

T here’s no doubt using video surveillance enhances lawenforcement’s chances of solving crime. Scotland Yardproved their worth last July using it to identify terrorists

responsible for London’s subway attacks.If we equate video to the sense of sight, why haven’t we added

other senses, like hearing, to our crime-fighting tools? Chicago didit by adding 30 or more “Smart Audio Sensors” to surveillancecameras mounted in high-crime areas. The result has been a dra-matic reduction in crime rate — their lowest in 40 years.

This smart sensor network of neural technology was developed

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ombining these two “sense tech-nologies” together seems like ano-brainer for law enforcement.

But, the ACLU and others of their ilk, believe cameras in the public-right-of way will be used it to invade theprivacy of law-abiding citizens. Addingaudio-sensing technologies will onlyincrease the rhetoric from these groups.Privacy experts agree, no reasonableperson should have an expectation of pri-vacy in public places.

The same argument should carry for-ward for sound. Right or wrong, the lasttime I went out on some errands, Icounted 12 cameras in four public areas.Nevertheless, any agency intending to

operate cameras in the public right-of-way should be ready to defend theiractions. Minimally, you should have anarticulated need and well-defined policiesand procedures for their use.

For those who still believe oursociety is becoming too much likeGeorge Orwell’s novel, 1984, Chicagoofficials say their systems are onlytrained to recognize gunshots. Is there acorrelation between these systems andChicago’s overall drop in reportedcrimes? Only time will tell but if puttingup systems with human-quality senses

of sight and sound sends the crime rateto its lowest point in over 40 years —I’d like to see a few goingup in my neighborhood.


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GEORGE ELISEOOFFICERSURVIVALGETTING HOME IN THE SAME CONDITION YOU WENT TO WORK IN.

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y partner and I are on one side of a wide hallway,exchanging fire with an unknown number of terrorists.These have all been blind shots with no target, justspraying and praying. Everything falls silent for a

minute, it’s time for a surprise attack and a rush through the hallway.I get lucky and catch the terrorist just as he’s about to throw a

grenade, his rifle slung around his back. I shoot him with a three-round burst from my Colt M4A1 point blank in the chest. He goesdown without a sound, but I’m already moving past him.

I continue to get lucky as I find the other terrorist a short dis-tance away, head down in the middle of a reload. He looks upbut it’s too late. I squeeze the trigger for another three-round

burst into the ten ring.I keep moving, my good fortune and adrenaline moving me

fast towards the target area. I round the corner and see a thirdterrorist in the distance — maybe 25 yards away. More goodluck, his back’s to me, he didn’t expect any cops would makeit through the choke point.

I shoot him on the run, unloading the rest of my magazine atfull auto. I change mags and continue to clear the area. The otherguys on my team are barking into their radios, but I’m movingtoo fast and too pumped to take in what they’re saying. Thecrackle of automatic weapons fire is constant in the background,but my footfalls seem loudest in my ears now.

I’m moving through an underground corridor then back outinto the sunlight, running along a dirt road when I see something

out of place down and to my left. It’s a bad guy, hiding in theshadows of an alley stuffed with crates, his AK is at low ready. Ipivot and begin shooting, bringing the front sight down diago-nally across his body. Wood chips are flying off the crates andthen the bullets making contact. He’s down and out.

I’m rewarded with a loud, “Multi-Kill!” from my com-puter’s speakers. Our team just won this round of Counter-Strike — thanks to me.

Okay, so it appears to the unenlight-ened that I’m playing a computergame, specifically what’s knownas a “first-person shooter” or FPS.

But in fact, what I’m really doing is per-sonal combat tactics training simulator.Don’t believe me? A recent study con-ducted by Daphne Bavelier, associate pro-fessor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences atthe University of Rochester, revealed somesurprising discoveries regarding the visualattention of FPS game players.

First, let’s define some terms. Visualattention is different from visual acuity.Good visual acuity is merely the fancy-shmancy way of saying good vision,your basic eye-chart score type vision.Visual attention is the ability to monitorand track objects within all fields of vision, including objects in the periph-

eral. Pretty good skill to have if you’re acop that just walked into a room full of bad guys, I’d say.

Several specifically designed testswere used to measure the participant’svisual attention. Participants weremade up of FPS game players and non-game players.

The University of Rochester studydocumented several interesting issues.They found that action game playersare better at localizing a target objectin a cluttered environment than non-players; they can apprehend and keep

track of more objects at once and theycan better process fast occurringvisual information.

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o let’s see: localize a target ina cluttered environment, track

multiple targets and processfast occurring visual informa-

tion. Isn’t this exactly what every copmust do in a shoot/don’t shoot situa-tion? This study couldn’t be more rele-vant to police work if it had Reed andMalloy doing a cameo appearance.

The study also found that anon-game player could “train up”by playing an FPS game (in thiscase, Medal of Honor), andnoticeably improve their visualattention score within 10 hours of game playing.

Many departments already usevideo training simulators like theFATS system to train their officers.Maybe it’s time to start handing outcopies of Half-Life and Medal of Honor for homework assignments.

Although it might be really inter-esting to crunch some numbers

and see how many goodcombat shooters out there playFPS games. Any thoughts onthis from some of the rangemasters?

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Police in Chat-tanooga, Ten-nessee, arrested

Paul Eugene“Gene” Levengood,owner of the Tasty Fla-vors Sno Biz ice-creamshop, when they learnedhe was spankingemployees for makingmistakes at work. It cer-

tainly sounded like batteryto them. Two 19-year-old

girls confirmed that sure,Paul had spanked them occa-

sionally for errors, like, once whenone of them forgot to put a banana in a

customer’s smoothie. Gene was hooked up,hauled away, and booked for sexual battery.

But now investigators and prosecutors don’tknow if they can proceed with charges. It seems

that both employees had signed statements reading, “I give Gene permission to bustmy behind in any way he sees fit.” His position is that it’s a condition of employ-ment, and they didn’t have to agree. The frozen-dessert business demands strict dis-cipline, you know. If bottoms don’t get paddled once in a while, who knows whatmight be missing from the smoothies?


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Darrell Lewis, 40, figured thegame was over when he sawhimself on the evening news onTV. The Albany, New York, resi-

dent had robbed a local bank earlier inthe day, and sorta forgot to hide from thesurveillance cameras. Darrell simply pre-sumed that if he could recognize himself in grainy black-and-white, the copscould too. He went to the nearest policestation and turned himself in. To hiscomplete surprise, officers told him tocome back the next day. The investiga-

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The evening before Tristian Wilsonwas to appear in Judge Rainey’s courton burglary and theft charges, the jailreceived a fax ordering his immediaterelease. They get faxes like that all thetime, so it was no big deal. Wilson waskicked out forthwith, and everybodywas happy. Until appearance time thenext day, anyway. When Hizzonerlearned of the faxed release order, hedemanded to see it. Upon judicialinspection, he agreed the wordingsounded pretty official … But, he asked,didn’t any of you folks notice thatthere’s no official police letterhead onit, and, it was sent from a McDonald’s

Restaurant on Missouri Street? The onlything missing seemed to be a pair of golden arches on the fax, and a discountcoupon for a Happy Meal.

Cops scrambled to save a little bit of face, and in fact, they did okay. Not onlydid they scoop Wilson up at his lastknown address, they also found moreloot linking him to other burglaries in thearea. This time, the jail staff was toldonly to release him upon the order of adude in a black robe, not some guy in afright wig and big yellow shoes. Well,not unless he also happens

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A re Perception and Reaction Timeoverlooked or just taken forgranted? It can’t be taught in onelesson, but the technique and

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class. The teacher addresses the impor-tance of “scanning the road — our eyesnever stop moving” or “we need to look 12to 15 seconds down the road and be readyto react.” In some PD Academies there’rediscussions about time and distance and


ANTHONY RICCIEVOC

Y ou’re called to a hot burglary

where a female caller is hidingin a closet. You’re thinkingabout the importance of the

situation, saving a life, catching athief, a potential confrontationinvolving a weapon, your own well-being, how many suspects, and oh, Ialmost forgot driving to the scenesafely. A car pulls out 300 feet downthe road (think football field). You’retraveling 60 MPH with lights andsiren. Do you have enough time tostop or avoid the vehicle?

Since accidents happen in feet nothours, first change MPH to FPS. Forthe sake of simplicity we’ll round out.In this case you’re traveling 90 FPS.Using the best-case scenario, if ittakes you .5 second to recognize thecar as a hazard and another .5 secondfor your brain to tell your hands andfeet to do something, you’ve just cov-ered 90' and you’re still moving 60MPH or 90 FPS. Problem is, beforeyou saw the car you were lookingdown at the computer for a splitsecond, which put you 90 feet deeperinto the accident zone. Now you have120' and approx. 1.3 seconds to stop.

Things just got real serious. If youfreeze on the steering wheel and slamon the brake, which is quite common,your car will end up 30' through theobstacle. A Crown Vic should stop in140' to 150' at 60 MPH using correctbraking technique.

Since you can’t control braking dis-tance the only place to make up timeand create more distance is the percep-tion and reaction process. Driving is askill of the eyes and mind. Trainersneed to focus a large amount of time onhow and what cops perceive

as dangerous.

A pproaching the next blind curve or car at an intersection, what should we bethinking? We must constantly process information. Seeing it does nothing.Identifying, recognizing and reacting quickly and accurately save lives. Copsmust take this process to a higher level. We scan the roads for many things, not

just potential accident situations.Perception time is the time it takes for the brain to identify an object as a poten-

tial hazard and is at best .5 to .75 seconds. That’s if the driver is alert. Reaction timeis the time it takes your brain to tell your hands and feet to do something. It takesanother .5 to .75 seconds.

While your brain’s telling your foot to get to the brake-pedal, time’s passing andyou’re getting much closer to the dreaded contact point. Remember the brakes havenot yet been activated and you’re still traveling the same speed. Hopefully, you’ll have

enough space left to allow the brakes and steering wheel to work. The less space youhave, the more skill and luck you’ll need.

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The reason this topic can’t be taughtin one lesson is there are so manyunderlining factors. Students are toldto scan the road but not how to scan orhow the eyes and mind work and what

to look for. Looking down the roadisn’t enough. But glancing down at thetires gives a better indication of whichway that car’s going to move. Byknowing what to look for the drivercan save time and react sooner.

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ongoing process. Imagine a four-pound prime rib roast.Would you rather eat it hot, in 48 equal 1.3-ounce bites,

or stash it in the freezer for 12 months, then have it jammeddown your throat in one chunk?

Once weekly, go down your roster, dwelling on each name. Askyourself if there’s an appropriate comment to be made, positive,negative, constructive, directional, or cautionary. Jot it down, anddo it that week . Most of these casual meetings take less than threeminutes, ending with; “You’re improving in this area — keep it up,okay?” or “Good job on handling that — remind me of it when we


JOHN MORRISONSTREETLEVELSTRAIGHT TALK ON SUPERVISION & LEADERSHIP ON THE FRONT LINES — THE STREETS.

John Morrison served in combat as a Marine sergeant, and retired as a senior lieutenant from the San Diego Police Department, having served there as Director of Training, Commanding Officer of SWAT and division executive officer. He has taught, written and lectured widely on training, tactics and leadership. Contact him at [email protected].

No, this is not about a bad B-grade horror movie, butannual personnel evaluations. For you, the agonyaccrues from writing the damn thing. For the recipient, it

comes from the pain of biting his tongue in rage and disbelief while reviewing it.

The mystery plays out for you when you’re staring at ablank evaluation form and wondering, “What the hell am Igoing to say?” For him, it’s: “Who the hell is he talkingabout? It can’t be me!”

Shock occurs when you reflect on what insipid tripeyour final product is. His shock comes when he realizesthis literary “monsterpiece” is going in his permanent file.

Finally, you betray your troops when you give themanything less than thoughtful, accurate evaluations. Andyou betray yourself when, after a year of mostly-successful

struggle to be the best supervisor you can be, you make amess of the one leadership function with the greatest, most

long-lasting impact on the officers in your care. Let’s talk, notabout the mechanics of writing an evaluation — we’ll get to thatanother time — but about the methodology of evaluating.

T his is the time for observations like, “Your crime-scene work is getting moredetailed, more polished — great job on that robbery on Tenth — Highly Satisfac-tory,” or “The quality of your work is fine, but I’ve noticed a serious drop-off inself-initiated contacts. I want to see more diggin’out there — Satisfactory; Needs

Improvement,” and, “When things quiet down after 0300, I’d like to see you meeting morewith officers on adjacent beats. It’s not just about information-sharing. There’s a socialdimension to this job too, and I’m concerned that you’re seen as being kind of standoffish;aloof. Let them get to know you as well as I do. You need improvement there.”

Give them the opportunity to respond, but remember, it’s a briefing, so be brief.Most feedback they can give you will be refined and improved by reflection andthought. If an officer launches a general rant about how you’re misunderstanding him,say, “We have to end this and hit the field. Your annual isn’t due until April. We’ll talkabout it again next month, and when we do, give me some specifics; give me examples,

okay? Let’s hit it.”

Nothing should ever appear on anannual eval you haven’t alreadydiscussed with the officer.

Deficiencies noted should always beaccompanied by advice on how to raisethat rating.

It’s not about how your cop compareswith your other troops; it’s about how hemeasures up to the evaluative criteria.

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talk evaluation next week,” or “I don’t want to see you lose focus.You’re too valuable to the squad, Smith. Think about it.”

Monthly, sit down individually with your troops for fiveminutes. Place a blank evaluation form in front of both of you,and kick off with, “If I were rating you right now, here’s howI’d mark you in each category and why.” Don’t write; talk.Keep it brief, drawing from the previous month, tying inongoing efforts, improvements or deficiencies where appro-priate. Focus on the triad of Performance, Productivity andBehavior. Whenever possible, and especially when a rating isless than fully satisfactory, give simple suggestions forimproving that rating over the short term.

Be Blunt, Be Brief, But Be Open

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was a 9A. As a rookie I answered a traffic accident call and was surprised to see a Corporalwith what had to have been a six-foot long crow bar prying one wheel well fender edge off of the car’s tire. That fender pressing on the tire was all that kept the accident from being a 9A, so hewas fixing it — at the owner’s request of course. He called it his 9A tool. Agreat big crow bar.

Today there’s a better solution.Dynamic Entry, having recently

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tools both of which were designed forbreaching, but will serve virtually anyprying purpose. The larger of the two,The Breacher (go figure) is 30" long andweighs 7.1 pounds. The second one, theSpecial Operations Breacher or SOB, is24" and weighs 6.7 pounds. My firstassumption was the original tool was theBreacher, and that the SOB was devel-oped in response to a demand for asmaller lighter pry tool. Not so.

The SOB was actually developedfirst and was part of the Tactical Back-pack Kit (TBK). The Breacher, devel-

So, we have this tool: 24" long, and a little under 7 pounds. I’ve got noproblem putting that in my patrol car’s trunk. What will I do with it?Beyond the intended purposes of breaching all types of common con-struction doors we’d find in residential and commercial structures, it

can be used for a myriad of other purposes. First and foremost (in my mind)

it’s a “9A tool.” But if you think about auto accidents, the SOB can also beused for extrication, breaking windows, opening jammed hoods or trunks,and more. I’ve always been nervous about using metal objects under thehood of a car because electricity and I don’t get along. Dynamic Entry tookpeople like me into account in their design because the handle of the SOBis electrically non-conductive to 100,000 VAC.

Speaking of breaking windows, the SOB also makes an excellent fieldexpedient “break and rake” tool for homes where you either needed to getsomeone out, or you needed to get in and such action was warranted.

Being a cop, and knowing how cops are, I wanted to know how hardthis tool was to break. Can I pry hard enough to separate the head fromthe handle? Dynamic Entry’s response was, “It’s never happened.” Theconstruction process uses a two-part epoxy attachment system that servesas a weld to bind the two parts together into a single unit. If you

can break the tool, Dynamic Entry has a lifetime war-ranty on all their products.

oped second, was a responseto feedback Dynamic Entryreceived about the tools in theTBK. The two most importantpieces of feedback leading tothe development of theBreacher were some operatorsweren’t interested in the non-sparking capabilities of thehallagan tool included in thekit, and they wanted a morerobust pry tool.

That’s important to knowbecause the SOB wasn’t theresult of downsizing an alreadyproven tool. It already proveditself in the field before servingas the basis for further designs.

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PAUL MARKE LPRIVATESECURITYISSUE'S AND TRENDS ON THE PRIVATE SIDE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Informant” often evokes the image of Bernstein meeting the clandestineDeep Throat in a darkened parkinggarage. Truth is most informants

better fit the term neighborhood watchcaptains. I’ve learned more from talking

Rather than looking down on theseguys, and occasionally ladies, aswanna-bes, consider them a valu-

able source of free information. After all,if they have any gray matter at all, they’llknow their operation inside and out.

It’s entirely possible many of theseguards may be retired cops looking tomake some extra cash or part-time cops

just trying to cover the rent. A lot of retired guys take a security gig just to getout of the house and feel productive again.

Who can we look to for help? Take thehotel security officer, not only does heknow the property like the back of hishand, he encounters a great number of people each day. Some of these people areup to no good. Ask anyone on your nar-cotics squad and they’ll tell you how muchdope is being dispensed out of hotel rooms.

Upscale neighborhoods contract withguard companies for roving patrols. Youalso have the alarm response guys fromADT, Westec, and others. These guysare bored out of their minds too, butthey see what goes on all night long in

their patrol areas.

with business owners, waitresses andnosey spinsters than I ever have“pumping snitches for the 411.”

Often, people we encounter giveus one or more pieces of the puzzle if we just take the time to listen. Manycitizens we meet will bend our earsabout the neighbor’s dog keepingthem awake or the kids skate-boarding in front of their house.

However, many others may give us

a valuable tip.Nearly every patrol area has oneor more night watchmen on duty.Some businesses have 24 hoursecurity guards. The day shift is nor-mally kept busy; the evening andnight-shift guys are fighting off boredom just like us. Most of thesefolks relish the chance to talk withyou — if only for a few moments.

Paul Markel has been a cop since 1991. He’s served many communities in his native Ohio. Paul also provides executive protection in the US and overseas. He’s the author of “Have Passport, Will Travel: Field Notes f or the M oder n Bodyguar d.”

Eyes And Ears

A re you trying to solve a string of burglaries or car thefts? These folks can beyour eyes and ears. How many times have you spent your entire shift goingfrom call to call without any free time to patrol? The roving security guardusually spends his entire shift looking for suspicious activity in a much

smaller area than yours. Are you looking for a suspect vehicle? It never hurts to askthe roving rent-a-cop if he’s seen it — you might get lucky.

Obviously, we can run into a “color of law” issue if we enlist a security officer to

aid in an investigation. However, no one ever said that you can’t question membersof the public — even Bob the night watchman. He might just be a good witness.

Say you need to pick up a guy on a warrant, you know what he looks like andwhat he drives, but you can’t sit outside his girlfriend’s house, all shift. XYZ Manu-facturing is across the street. Old Bob works 2300 to 0700. What’s the harm tellingBob to call you if he sees a blue ’96 Chevy four-door? You don’t have to tell himwhy. “Sure,” Bob says. “That car usually shows up around 2:30 in the morning.”

You’re not likely to solve the Lindberg kidnapping with your new-found contacts,but the info you glean from security officers might well keep you ahead of the badguys. It won’t take long to figure out which guards have it on the ball and which onesare soup sandwiches.

You’ll run into your fair share of “police groupies.” The trick is not to become socallous that we discount everyone except our fellow cops.

The local security guard can be a valuable source of information. If nothing

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Rule Three —Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights

Are On The

Target

A pplying common sense here, if I’mbeing choked to death over the hoodof my car, sighted fire will be pretty

hard to apply. It’s kinda the exception thatproves the rule. Otherwise, if you’re on thetarget your finger goes on the trigger. If not, get your finger off the trigger.

Rule Four —

Be Sure Of Your Target AndBackstop

T his applies to all firearms butrequires extra emphasis when usingrifles. On occasion, I’ve seen

people (yes, cops) shoot themselvesduring training. With handguns it’s usu-ally a few days off and a good story abouthow “it wasn’t my fault.” But, with riflegunshot injuries you might want to pull

out the white gloves and polish the squadcar for the upcoming funeral. You know,I’d be careful with these things.

There’s some delusion that mandates when we pick up a rifle the target should beextended to 9,000 yards and we should fire uphill in a snowstorm. If a rifle’s abetter tool to fight with — and it is — why not simply teach officers to fight with

rifles the way they normally work?The only variable is the officer and the tools he was trained with. If a cop goes to

a gun call why have a hard time with them taking the best weapon they have avail-

able. Do we shoot everyone? Of course not, but how many cops are killed each yearfighting fights they knew had the possibility of involving a firearm with a handgun?Cops shoot rarely. Often they shoot poorly and even more often with the wrongweapons system.

Well then, what course of fire to use? How about the state or department mandatedhandgun course — with their rifle. Remembering the fight’s going to be what it wasfrom beginning to end anyway and the only variable is what experience, what trainingand what weapon they take to the fight. Rifles are better. Yes, we should shoot the fiveyard, 10 yard, 15 yard, 25 yard, go to cover, reload, moving target, shooting moving tar-gets while moving drills with the rifle.

There is an old axiom in law enforcement, “you’ll fight like you train.” Actually, itisn’t true. You might, but then you might be a gun guy. They will not fight like theytrain; they’ll probably fight worse. How many people with a loaded gun on your depart-ment would you like to have behind you in a bad spot? In fairness, some cops will rise

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all the extended widgets —then we’lltalk about the fancy stuff — maybe.

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lations, follow up on addresses of registered sex offenders, work pettycrimes, narcotics or homicides, youare as special as you need to be.You don’t need monikers, initials orother junk. I remember when ourCrime Scene guys were just CrimeScene Guys and SWAT Operatorswere Tactical Guys.

Shorthand Or Reality? Sometimes, police work calls for

political activity to gain approval orfunding for a new program or equip-

ment. It’s easier to avoid “dazzlingwith brilliance” when we can “bafflethem with bullshit.”

Using teaching goals from theFBI’s Officers Killed Summary, wefound ourselves shooting paper andcardboard from close ranges. We

avoided cover drills and marksmanship atdistance — ranges where we won gun-fights. They didn’t show up in the FBIUCR reports. Giving up distance skillsdidn’t help us, but calling the “new” pro-gram “C.Q.B.” or “Close Quarters Battle”didn’t hurt selling people on the idea. It

was military verbal shorthand that trans-ferred an aura of “professional” to theinstructor trying to get the agency or the

way too serious.” He’sexpressed his displeasure before and Ifollow his line of reasoning.

Walter Mitty Revisited We play these games because we all

want to be something special. I recently leftpolice service, I want you to know that youare special. If you stop cars for traffic vio-

The police training andequipment world are filledwith official-looking ini-tials, verbal shorthand andtactical-wear. It’s tough as

Chinese arithmetic for policetrainers and equipment buyersto sift through all the crap tofind the good stuff.

Military-sounding namesand the “initialing” vernacularisn’t really new to us. Startingback around the same timeSWAT did. People in SWAT

became “special operators” or just “operators.”

Dave Spaulding, more sen-sitive to the trend than I,caught me referring to ashooter of a particular gun asthat firearm’s “operator.”

In my defense, when I started onthe job, the driver ’s license wasreferred to as an operator’s license. Westill check the driver’s OLN (operator’slicense number) via the current incarna-tion of the teletype. My shooter was theoperator of that gun. He wasn’t a

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were no answers. Theinstructor, a former soldier -–who really had been in a spe-cial operations unit -– said thatit was the CDI factor. “Chicksdig it,” he said.

We laughed. But, I wonder. Isthat really why? I thought maybeit was because black is “slim-ming,” and with all that gear oneven small people look huge.

It seems every time you turnaround you see ads for trainingdelivered by SEALs, GreenBerets, Rangers or from someonewho uses an alias because of involvement in the “intelligencecommunity.” This is the assur-ance your instructor has “been

there,” “seen the elephant,” orwhatever. Give me a break.

I didn’t know we had so many “spe-cial” types. I wonder what they can teachthat Jim Cirillo or his partner Al Sayge,retired from NYPD, can’t. They were

cops who went to a specialty unit toavoid being put on a fixed traffic post orsome other mind-numbing assignmentwhen the firing ranges were cut back dueto the city’s looming bankruptcy. In thefirst two hours of their first stakeout, theywere in a gunfight against three armed-robbery suspects. They won. I think thehero is the guy that was just there andmade the best out of the situation.

The traffic or highway-patrol typewho’s suddenly turned upon and getsinto the fight for his life also has some-thing to offer. Or the FTO that goes to areport of a past break-in to find out it’s adangerous domestic in progress. Theresulting gun-grab and death of hisrookie makes him draw on all his skillsto prevail. I want to hear from that cop.

I’m not saying that classes or equip-ment offered by these special operators,ninja, demons of darkness are of novalue. I’m not even saying that youshouldn’t avail yourself of their expertiseor goodies. Just don’t follow along likelemmings. Be sharp purchasers.

I learned tactics from a couple of oldcops only one of whom was SWAT. Theytended to be sneaky, assume the worst

and use tricks and misdirection to get the job done. They were creative and workedoutside the box, confusing and con-founding their opponents.

Then they taught other people how todo that. It worked wonderfully. NeitherDick Lee nor Dan Rhyne was SpecialForces, but they’d been out there. Lee waseven one of those mentioned in CharlesRemsberg’s Caliber Press book, The Tac-tical Edge as “additional research help.”

Be smart. Be wary. Have a plan.Don’t rush. Keep it simple. Andremember the first rule of law enforce-

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troops to buy into it.Shooting a big target at close range

has the practical effect of making surethat the desk-bound chairborne rangers

passed the ‘qual if ication’ course,bringing up the inevitable question of “what are we qualified to do?”

Try the same thing in “man-on-man”gunfight simulations. Or, have an officerarmed with an inert training gun try toavoid a thrown rag or other soft objectwhile moving and especially drawing thegun. It’s a little different. Many, self-avowed ‘operators,’ find themselves strug-gling. Hardly a “CQB Spec Ops TacticalOperative” type of scenario, but one likelyto reflect avoiding deadly gunfire whilebringing their own implements to bear.

CQB is only one example. Examine theWilson Combat Web site and see that theyhave a good, basic pistol named “CQB.”Quite accurate out to 50 yards, it’s notcheap. It’s a very good gun, but unlikely tobe seen in police holsters. Does the “CQB”moniker sell the gun as much as the quality,accuracy and good Wilson name? It’s ahandy name. If your carbine fails, a 50-yardshot may be needed. Now that’s CQB!

Must Be Tactical I’ve learned a few things from a

former military firearms instructor thatbear repeating. If it’s black, nylon and

has Velcro, it’s tactical. He never got intothe “tac-speak” thing.

I find earth tones more pleasing thanblack at my age. Just in time, as OliveDrab or Desert Tan are now “tactical”colors. Finally, I’m on the right page.

We learn lessons, particularly in thedeadly force arena, from the military andcompetition. Military “qualifications”stem from competition shooting originatedby the NRA. These called for standardizedtargets and courses of fire to be shotnationwide. You could measure the skillsof a shooter on the east coast with a

shooter in the Midwest. Similarly, the mil-itary wanted to see demonstrated skillsfrom Fort Drum to Fort Apache.

Cops went along to some degree. Weneeded to measure the skills of those weallowed to carry guns and enforce laws.This was okay, but it had little to do with

conditions cops had to face in the field.

So Much For New The Allied Forces of WWII did lots of

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Sometimes we forget hard work andsacrifice and just emphasize stuff. TheCalifornia Highway Patrol disaster atNewhall on April 6, 1970, forever changedthe face of police work. The deaths of offi-cers Alleyn, Frago, Gore and Pencechanged police training even more signifi-cantly than the FBI Miami shootout. It wasa wake-up call for a lot of trainers.

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choices, Para Ordnance gives them to youwith this pair and you don’t need to giveup the high capacity that made thewonder 9s so appealing to cops facingbetter armed bad guys. Both guns giveyou 14 rounds in the magazine and one inthe chamber. They also give you Para’shighly reliable Power Extractor.

I can’t tell you how many timessomeone came up to me when I was inuniform and said, “Do you know that yourgun has the hammer back? That’s not verysafe is it?” After a brief educational con-versation most uninformed still go awayunconvinced. The Colonel’s LDA systemputs an end to those uncomfortableencounters. The spurless hammer is flushto the slide giving the appearance of anyother gun we carry in the field. With theLTC, being a traditional single action 1911you still may get that question. Be nice.

Scientific Testing — NOT I took both guns out to the range anddid some testing. I hate those “this gun,with this ammo, shoots a 2.375" group at25 yards from a Ransom Rest” type of test. We know Para Ordnance or any otherquality gun maker isn’t going to putsomething out that sprays rounds like afire hose. I’m fond of the purely subjec-tive “how does it feel and can I shoot itwell enough to live through a bad day”type of testing. As expected, both shootvery well. The guns have highly manage-able recoil and I especially liked the

trigger on the LTC.Both guns functioned flawlessly withthe ammunition I put through them. As is

my custom, because I get the stuff for free,I used American Eagle 230-grain ballammo. It was consistent and accurate. Itried Black Hill 185-grain JHP with itswide hollow-point. No feeding problemsand accuracy was great. Then I tried someFederal 230-grain JHP plus P HST ammo.It’s “law enforcement only” ammunitionwith spectacular downrange performance.This one will really bring issues to the fore-front; especially with a less than govern-ment size 1911. Spring tension strength orslide to frame issues are exacerbated asslide speed is increased significantly. Anylittle fitting problems come right to theforefront. Both the Colonel and the LTCate it up. I put 100 rounds of Federal HSTthrough each gun and was fully convincedthey can shoot anything. It’s a testament toPara’s ramped barrel, engineering andattention to detail.

The front sights are dovetailed in

place and regulated well. The rear sight isa rounded single piece of CNCed metal.In fact, all edge surfaces on the guns arewell rounded for snag free operation. Youeven get to keep the hide on your handsinstead of leaving it on your sight bladesduring malfunction drills.

For shooters comfortable with theinherent safety of a double action gun, theColonel gives you a nice commander-sized high-capacity gun that shoots welland has a distinctive look to it. For thoseof us more comfortable with the single-action trigger system of a traditional

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can’t buy into that. Neithershould you.

Today there are tons of those “good guns” out thereto choose from. When mydepartment went to the “if you can shoot it well, youcan carry it” philosophy Iwas tapped to decide whatguns met the department’sidea of “within certain para-

meters.” Actually it waseasy. I named manufac-turers, calibers and types of guns rather than specificmodels. I also added thelittle phrase: or, on a case-by-case basis, as authorizedby the Rangemaster.

Quite a few went to orback to the 1911 style pistol.You can’t swing a dead catthese days without hitting a1911 manufacturer square inthe marketing department.

Heck, the guy down thestreet from me made his ownfrom a chunk of steel on themilling machine in hisgarage. It’s ugly but it workspretty well. I started to thinkthat case-by-case basis thingwas coming back to bite me in my amplebutt. However, as I suspected, the troopsselected well. We saw some Colts, Spring-fields, Kimbers, Les Baers and Para Ord-nance guns.

Colonel Or LTCThe only one I was skeptical about at

first was the Para. I knew their single-action guns were high quality but thatLDA trigger system made me squirm alittle. I couldn’t shoot it worth a damn. Iquickly found others could and very welltoo. We’re back to choices here and thoseofficers choosing the Para LDA system didvery well with it. In the spirit of allowingcops to choose what they feel comfortablewith, rangemasters need to put their pref-erences aside and trust their officers tomake the best decision for themselves.

Para Ordnance has come up with apair of almost identical guns cops can be

comfortable with, the Colonel and theLTC or Lieutenant Colonel. These arestriking looking guns with OD Slide andframe set off by black small parts. It’s avery cool looking variation on Colt’sCommander theme with the same rankdesignation just different services.There’s something about the 4.25" barrellength that just seems to be about the per-fect size for a street cop. It’s not too longnor is it too short and it’s an easy gun tocarry around due to the reduced weightcompared to the full size version.

The Colonel is a high capacity .45

ACP with the LDA trigger system. TheLTC is the same gun but with a tradi-tional single action trigger. Remember

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This is one of those guns thatmakes you wonder what tookso long. It’s a simple, elegantsolution to a problem that’s

plagued cops for generations: the 12-gauge shotgun.

I can probably count on my fingersthe number of times I saw cops bail out

on a hot call with a shotgun — notcounting the times it was me. In

my early days I shot competi-tive skeet and the shotgun

held no fear for mealthough, in t ruth, I

wasn’t overly fond of buckshot. But there

were times whenit was the

appropriatew e a p o n

and I’d be the only one there with one.The reason is simple, nobody botheredto teach the troops how to shoot them.Training was pretty much based on the“you can’t miss with a shotgun” philos-ophy. Still, shotguns are as much as partof police cars as lights and sirens, butthere they sit.

In the ’80s we saw a move towardpistol caliber semiautomatic carbines for

patrol that sometimes mirrored theSWAT team’s selective fire stuff. Thosereceived mixed reviews and someargued they were just bigger pistols. Butwe are in a business that is trendy andcyclic so as military and SWAT unitsnow trend away from the pistol caliberswe’re seeing interest in a patrol riflechambered for the .223/5.56 cartridge.

AR-15 Alternative What Remington has done is

come up with an alternative to theAR-15 type rifles or carbines that

doesn’t have the military stigma of an assault rifle and costs less too.It’s a pump-action carbine with a


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161 ⁄ 2"-barrel. The most important feature isthat the manual of arms for it is exactly thesame as for the ubiquitous Model 870 thatinhabits virtually every police car in thecountry. The slide latch and safety areexactly the same so anyone with even rudi-mentary training with the 870 is alreadygoing to know how this one works. Theother very smart feature is it will acceptmost AR-15 type magazines. There’s amagazine well and release that will befamiliar to anyone with AR experience andthe detachable magazine eliminates one of the shotgun’s greatest hassles ... clearing it.

The 7615P will be furnished with a 10-round magazine that fits nearly flush but italso will accept most GI and aftermarketAR type magazines. It weighs 7.3 poundsempty, has a black parkerized finish andhandles with ease.

The stock and for-end are black syn-thetic with a non-slip surface. There’seven an R-3 recoil pad, which almosteliminates the minimal recoil of the.223. It’s there to provide compatibilityof fit and feel with the 870. The R-3recoil pad is a great development and isthe most effective pad I’ve ever felt. On

hard-kicking rifles or shotguns withbuck or slugs the difference is dra-matic. It may not be needed here but


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does feel good. As the line maturesthere will be several choices of stockstyles and length of pull. Right now theLOP is 14" which is just fine for mostfolks but a 13" variation will also beavailable for smaller cops or for usewith heavy body armor.

There will be options in sights too.The gun we’re using has a Wilson ghostring sight. Conventional rifle sights willbe available as well (get the ghost ring).At first some shooters will complainabout the large aperture on the ghostring, but that is exactly how it should be

and your eye quickly learns to centereverything up. The sight is adjustable forwindage and elevation wasdead on at 50 to 100 yards.I even tried shooting atsome steel plates at 300yards and once I fig-ured out that I neededto put the top of thefront sight at 12:00 onthe plate it was bor-ingly bang/clang time.

Familiar Feel

Operation even feels like the870 with the exception of the act of cham-bering a round which is much easier. That

makes sense since a .223 cartridge is con-siderably lighter. The action was a littlestiff at first but that went away after just afew rounds and operation has been smoothand flawless. There were no feed malfunc-tions with a wide variety of ammunition aswell as with an assortment of Colt andaftermarket magazines. Remington warnsthat not all magazines will work due to dif-ferences in lip geometry but most will.

When I began to work with the

7615P I debated with myself over thesights and it certainly would have beeneasy enough to put a red dot sight orlow-power scope on it. The receiver isalready drilled and tapped for the stan-dard 7400/7600 base although you’dhave to remove the ghost ring to dothat. But logic suggests it isn’t going tobe fitted with a scope in the real worldof the cop car. So I shot it just as itcame. I must admit the ghost r ingmakes it easier to misalign the sights abit and there would be occasional flyersin the groups that simply weren’t the

gun’s fault. But even so it really wasn’thard to shoot sub-2" groups at 50 yardsand a 6:00 hold delivered “X” ring hitsat 50 to 100 yards with several differentbullet weights.

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sticking a 30-round magazine in it butmy pump arm wore out long before thegun ran dry. Normal 10- or 20- roundmagazines should be just fine and mostmagazines I tried fell free when the mag-azine catch was pressed so a combatreload could be performed if needed.

While the 7615P is in Remington’slaw enforcement catalog there are norestrictions on the sale to civilians andmany of Remington’s LE distributors alsocarry commercial lines so it should not behard to get. In some states the cartridge islegal for deer and it would certainly behandy in the woods or thick brush. Itwould do well in ranch vehicles forpredator control and serve quite nicely asa home defense weapon. In short, multi-tasking is a piece of cakefor the 7615P.

For more information, contact Rem-ington Arms Co., www.remingtonle.com,(800) 243-9700

*It’s always tough to decide what

ammo to use in any gun test and

there are so many .223 loadsaround that it would be impossibleto include them all. Instead I choseto use 50-, 55- and 68-grain bulletweights, which cover most bases.The 7615P barrel has a 1:10"twist so it will stabilizethe heavier “matchbul-lets” but it certainlyisn’t neces-

Accuracy Test ResultsBrand Bullet Type Velocity Group Size

(weight/grains) (fps) 1 2 3 Avg

Black Hills 50 V-max 3,066 1.27 1.54 1.54 1.45Federal 69 Gold Medal 2,468 1.68 2.21 2.19 2.03Remington UMC 55 MC 2,861 1.25 1.36 1.53 1.38

Remington 55 PSP 2,895 2.40 2.64 2.01 2.36Remington 55 Accutip-V 2,918 2.95 2.10 1.95 2.33

Average Group Size 1.91

sary to use them for duty work. Sourcestell me that the polymer tip loads such asthe Black Hills V-max or Remington’sAccutip-V are gaining in popularity andI certainly have no complaints abouttheir accuracy or varmint hunting perfor-mance. As you can see from the table,

accuracy and velocity were pretty con-sistent across the board.

Fun But Serious Too Shooting the little rifle has been fun.

It is fast and slick to operate and recoil isvirtually non-exis-

tent. Once Imade the

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Got enough ugly ties and weird little porcelain“World’s Best Cop” paperweights? Yeah, weknow you: off-duty, ties become dipstick rags andyour “desk” has four fat tires and a cuffed car-prowler sittin’ in the back. Maybe you’re just not

helping your friends and family to know what kind of toys you

want to find under the tree. They need hints, and that’s the sec-ondary purpose of this piece. Just circle what you want, and

leave copies layin’around.The primary purpose is to give you some clues about pre-

sents for your badge-packin’ pals. We know you popped forcoffee and a burrito for your partner last Christmas Eve, andyour Academy classmates wound up with those stupid paper-weights. Whoopee. We’re impressed. Now, let’s see if we can

violate your VISA limit and win back your buddies’ good will,okay? After all, you gotta give some to get some, you know …

Pull Out The Plastic People – It’s Santa’s Sleigh Time!

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Two thousand years ago, the gladius was the standard-issue short sword of Roman Legionnaires. Modern cen-

turions need this one. The Night-Ops Gladius by Blackhawkis a microprocessor-controlled superbright tactical light fea-turing selective dimming, momentary and constant on/off,and a rapid flashing strobe mode which will disrupt adirtbag’s nerve synapses. I watched as a senior SWAT copplayed “guinea pig,” and after three seconds of strobe-

whuppin’, he was on his way to meet Mr. Floor. Do not test iton yourself in the mirror, or get playful with your sergeant inthe parking lot. Great gift!

Pet pistols shouldn’t be subjected to slidingaround in loose gun rugs. Snug Rug zippered

gun cases look like notebook or daily-plannercovers, stack neatly on locker shelves or in guncabinets, and protect your piece with 360 degreesof custom-molded lined foam. Precision patternsare avai lable for most handguns fromSportsman’s Outdoor Products.

You’re turned around in a blacked-out Baltimoreback-alley, air support is en route and you don’t

know which way North is, so what do you do? Lookfor moss growing on one side of a dumpster? The

Suunto X-lander at right has a dozen high-tech watch-widgets — day/date, 24/12 time, demand backlighting,plus a digital compass, altimeter and barometer. If you’re a Midwest road warrior or a deputy in a westerncounty the size of Rhode Island, you might want theX9M military model on the right, with all-of-the-aboveplus red backlighting and GPS! Hard to find, but worththe search — call Suunto USA at (800) 543-9124.

Four minutes of angle puts you in a hostage-taker’s shirt pocketat 100 meters, and provides a big, bright aiming point at CQB

snap-shot distances. Aimpoint’s CompM2, M3, and CompML2 andML3 are the international “Gold Standard” by which other red-dotsights can be judged — and found lacking. The ML’s work just aswell on bright daylight and low-light missions, and the M-series areadditionally compatible with all generations of night-vision gear.Aimpoint’s mix of dimensions, clarity and durability make these theranking red-dots for heads-up hot-shooting. If you weren’t such atightwad, you’d mount this gift on that Rock River Arms “Govern-ment Model” AR — the one that kicked ass in federal torture tests,and captured the contract with DEA. Many AR-clones are “ade-quate.” This AR is exceptional.


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What to get for a partner whoplays pistol-of-the-week

games? Hogue’s new modularPowerSpeed holster can be user-configured to fit most full-sizeautopistols, and uses precise fit,compression and rare earth mag-nets to hold them securely. It’s not

a toy, but a great gift for a Gadget-Guy!

You may not be planning on plunging into salt water orstuffing your sidearm with sand, but isn’t it nice to know

you can get a laser sight as tough as your Glock? In replicatingHomeland Security test requirements for handguns, LaserMaxrecently took pistols fitted with their already-proven sights andgave them a Deep Six treatment, with a side order of sand-sludge. Several pistols wouldn’t even cycle — the Glocks did— but all the LaserMax sights survived, pulsing bright berry

red. Give one, get one, and everybody’s happy.

Easy now, big fella, easy … These bookshave lots of large photos, there’s not too

many big words, and they’re about guns! Ithelps that they’re funny as well as informa-tive, too. Bob Boatman is the kind of cul-tured savage who can write some complexstuff in simple terms, and gently convinceknow-it-all’s that they didn’t know squat.His “Living with” series includes three of the best books on the 1911, Glock pistols,and the .50 BMG rifle ever written. Justimagine your knuckle-draggin’ Neanderthalpartner thanking you for giving him a book!

Think of SOG’s PowerLock as a tiny tacticaltoolbox, troops. It has all the usual utilities plus

compound leverage on the pliers and wire-cuttingfunctions. Check the notch in the handle of that SOGTF-3 Trident folder, too — it cuts crime-scene tape orseat belts without even opening the blade.

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Look at the red beam, not the redhead, guys. That’s a view of Crimson Trace’s LaserGrips you’ll never want to see. Gift-

slap a set on your best friend’s Roscoe, and he’ll forgive you foryour past stinginess. The beam is squeeze-activated and fullyadjustable for point-of-aim.

Protect your pals’ Mark-I Eyeballs with thesuperb, shatterproof Zeiss Ikon shooting glasses.

Suitable for the range, daily, and tactical wear, theirpadded earpieces will keep ’em on your gourdthrough the fiercest fights and falls. Blackhawk’sinterchangeable lens wrap-arounds are stylin’ shatter-proofs too, and come in a padded triple-lens case.

Those deep scallops around the bezel andtailcap of SureFire’s E2D Defender ain’t

there for show — they make this blinding-bright light a pain-compliance and controltool, too. And remember, SureFire also hasthe best deal around on high-poweredlithium CR123 batteries; made in USA-quality at a paltry $15 per dozen.

Hey, lights and lasers, too! Stream-light’s M6X grabs onto any gun with

a rail in two seconds or less, and center-punches a pool of 125-lumen light with5mW of laser. The LMS-1202 light/lasercombo from LaserMax was purpose-builtfor Remington’s 870, 11-87 and 1100models, and is drop-tested tough for hardduty use. If you weren’t such a penny-pincher, you would mount it on VangComp’s tritium-sighted, compensated,

group-tightening 870 Police Magnum tocreate the ultimate fighting shotgun. That’s

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ourage under fire is a learnedbehavior. The key to police tacticalsuccess is repetition, doing the

right things, under extreme stress,the right ways.

There’s an old and accurate sayingthat applies to crooks and terrorists alike:“They only have to be right once. Copshave to be right every time.” When itcomes to the safe and effective use of your field tactics, the margin for error inthis business is zero. Rapper andupstanding citizen “Fifty Cent” can getshot nine times, as happened to him inApril 2000, and live to “sing” about theexperience. A police officer or sheriff’sdeputy can get hit just once, in a seem-

ingly non-fatal area, and not survive theride to the hospital.One of the words that seems loaded

with misery in law enforcement is rou-tine. Most cops don’t like using it orhearing it, especially after something has

gone terribly wrong. “It was just a rou-tine call,” says a group of officers,talking after the ambulance leaves thescene. “It seemed like a routine thing,something the officer must have handledmany times before,” says the newsreporter, standing outside the hospital.“It was a routine call,” says the officerfrom his or her hospital bed, “until theroutine changed and I had to do some-thing completely different and suddenlythat wasn’t part of my usual routine.”

Training officers and academyinstructors hate the word routine and

urge their charges to use the word “reg-ular” or “usual” to describe radio calls,car stops, or pedestrian stops which

we’ve done many times before. Themindset seems to be by calling some-thing routine, you’ll let your guard down

or you’ll fail to do what’s necessary. Inhigh-risk situations, you’re often urgedto “think outside the box” and becomemore flexible or creative in yourresponses to suspects’ moves.

Muscle Memory So let’s change that perspective and

label our responses in seemingly normalconditions like professional athletes do,by calling it “muscle memory” or “beingin the zone.” When the pros are doingtheir fieldwork perfectly, their responsesare routine, just like they’ve trained

themselves so many times before. Theiractions aren’t forced — they flow. If theydo stop and think about why they’re

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doing so well, the “zone” goes away.Trained repetition and the ability to notoutthink themselves in the stress of themoment, is what makes pros in anyendeavor successful.

So under extreme or life-threateningstress, why not see your routine responsesas safe ones? You should find comfort in

your tactical routines because they’ll tellyou what to do, how to do it, why, andwhen. You should see safety in your rou-tine responses because you’re quickly andaccurately doing the right things, at theright time, just like you have beentrained, or have trained yourself to do.

Zero Defects Consider a factory making spark

plugs, candy bars, or ammunition. A rou-tine day is one where the equipmentworks and the manufacturing processoperates at such a high level of qualitythat the products come off the assemblyline perfectly. But when one little thinggoes wrong, the whole product can fail.The smallest nudge of an important andinterrelated machine gives you sparkplugs with no tips, raisins instead of nuts,or missing primers.

Some history can help here. An Amer-ican gent whose ideas taught the

Japanese to buildcars with what hedefined as “zerodefects,” wasPhilip Crosby. Inhis 1979 book,“Quality is Free”,he said we needed

to change the waywe made our prod-ucts by breakingdown every singlepart of the manufac-turing process into aseries of error-freesteps. Crosby said if you’re building somethingand every single step is per-fect, then the end result will be aperfect product. The U.S. autobuilders known as the Big Three, GM,Ford and Chrysler, weren’t that interestedin his thoughts on quality. They allbecame late adopters after seeing how hisapproach to manufacturing every part of acar with no defects worked overseas.

“Zero defects means doing things rightthe first time.” – Philip Crosby.

So let’s take this idea of zero defectsand turn it into tactical perfection. Whynot apply Crosby’s theme to tactical

handgun use? Practice perfectly on therange, build the muscle memory and themental and physical skills to draw andshoot accurately. Go through each criticalstep in your mind — break leathercleanly — see the target clearly —breathe calmly — get the sight picture,squeeze smoothly, etc. Do it over andover again, then when the moment of truth comes, you’ll respond “perfectly.”

Tactical Perfection If you can break down the steps

needed for a high-risk call; drive care-fully, park tactically, approach with cover

and concealment in mind and then doeach one of these steps “perfectly,” you’llboth survive and win. Tactical perfectioncomes to the officer or deputy who canlook at each of these steps when it’s calmto help him visualize and then achievetactical success.

What makes this process possible isyour ability to control the often-unmen-tioned puzzle piece in the Fight orFlight response to life-threatening situa-tions — freeze . Go back to the prosports world, freezing is also known aschoking. It means hesitating when the

game is on the line and either overthinking the next move, or worse,having no idea what to do next.

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Different CopsFor Different

Crooks

T he public is under the mis-taken impression that allcops have the sameenforcement style and workethic. It’s due to their lim-ited contact with real cops

and overexposure to Hollywood copmovies starring guys like Bruce Willis orMel Gibson.

A movie cop is usually a gung-holone wolf. They’ll shoot five or six badguys while dropping witty one-linerslike, “Cause of death: lead poisoning.”You never see the reams of paperwork

involved afterward.We know this is just movie fantasy.Not the shooting of bad guys or the witty

Pro-Active, Reactive, And Not Very Active At All.

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the name implies, theyhave a narrower focus.Dope Cops don’t writet ickets and loathemaking any kind of DV arrest, no matterhow bloody, unlessdope’s involved. DopeCops make misde-meanor arrests by thebushel-load, but only

for under the influenceor arcane Health andSafety Code violations.

Dope Cops make ahuge impact on crimebecause drug addictsof one ilk or anothercommit most crimes.Of course the adminis-t rat ion completelyignores this andinstead praises what-ever “problem-solving” plan the cap-

tain can take credit forthat month.There are two other

niches that pro-activecops fall into. TrafficCops and DUI Cops.

Traffic Cops enjoyputt ing the cuffs onsomeone as much as asenator enjoys a cam-paign contr ibut ionsaudit. They’ll go out of their way not to arrestanyone because i tentai ls wri t ing longreports and actual lydealing with the sameperson for more than10 minutes. A TrafficCop will write 20 to 25tickets, answer a radiocall or two and he’sdone for the day. Allwithout having to actu-

ally touch another person — especiallycreepy criminal types. Better to towtheir car and hand them a ticket on theend of a stick. This pretty much sumsup the mission statement of Highway

Patrol units too.DUI Cops enjoy putting cuffs on

people — but only drunken peoplewho’ve been driving. Why this is enjoy-able is a mystery to most other cops.Apparently there’s a warm fuzzy feelingto a good DUI arrest. Suspects usuallychoose the breath test, giving the DUICop instant gratification in seeing justhow “faced” their catch really was. Thenof course the suspect is booked and hiscar’s impounded. The suspect and hiscar are put away; there’s one lessdrunken fool on the road and the DUI

Cop goes home happy. It’s law enforce-ment Zen, bringing things full circle.The Pro-Active Cop and sub category


one-liners, the fantasy of not doing thepaperwork. It kills me every time.

All cops can be divided into threebasic categories. Pro-active, Reactiveand Inactive.

Pro-Active Cops These guys kick butt and take names.

They don’t waste time with tickets ormisdemeanor arrests. They devote anentire shift to making one or two goodfelony arrests and DV arrests don’tcount unless a participant has a kitchenknife protruding from some body part.Their non-politically correct tactics arefrowned on by the administration andthey rarely get promoted. However,these guys are the backbone of anydepartment and make most of the major

street arrests.A sub-category of the Pro-Active(a.k.a. Felony Cop) is the Dope Cop. As

traits are admirable and even desirablein your basic street cop, but some super-visors berate, threaten and condemnthem. I’ve heard Traffic Cops told towrite fewer tickets, and Felony, Dopeand DUI Cops to make fewer arrests.

A patrol lieutenant usually perpe-trates this type of convoluted, “LiberalArts” logic after attending severaldepartment sponsored management sem-

inars. They’re very dangerous. Their lustfor captain’s bars is like a starved hyenagoing after a wounded springbok. It’sinsanity at the Catch-22 level.

The average police department alreadyhas its fair share of cops not willing to gothe extra mile for the citizens. Why wouldthe administration oppress the handful of pro-active cops making a difference outon the streets? I don’t know. You’ll haveto ask your lieutenant.

Reactive Cops I’ve got nothing unkind to say about

reactive cops. When you think about it,most people fall into this mindset. Theywait for others to make the first move. Alot of people spend their waking livesreacting to events around them.

Reactive Cops drive around theirbeat and wait for the radio call, or waitto see a drunk driver or wait to beflagged down by a citizen. Then theyreact. This is, after all, how they weretrained in the academy. When youarrive at the scene, you stand this way,you ask these questions and you fill outthis form. Police departments have noone to blame but themselves if theydon’t have a lot of out-of- the-boxthinking in their ranks.

This is not to slam guys who are goingthrough their careers as Reactive Cops.It’s a perfectly valid way of conductinglaw enforcement. Everyone handles this

job in the way they are best emotionallyequipped to do it. But, it’s like alwaysbeing on defense. Occasionally you takeout their players, but they’re still runningwith the ball.

Inactive Cop Every department has some. These

guys are the caricature governmentworker, just there for the paycheck. Notime for arrests or actually looking forcriminals, merely driving very slowlyfrom one radio call to the next, hopingall the troublemakers left the scene.

They’re kinda like un popped popcornin the bottom of the bag, no good to any-body. Just putting in 20 years ‘till theycan hang it up, collect their pension andget a cushy casino security job.

Seriously though, every department,every squad requires balance. Somereactive cops, pro-active cops, DUI cops

and traffic cops. I just wish we hadfewer inact ive cops andfewer lieutenants too. *

A little real-world pro-active police work never hurt anyone ...

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The Springfield Armory XD series pistols took the law enforce-ment duty gun world by storm a few years back. Now the offduty concealed gun market is in their sights. Springfield

Armory’s Sub-Compact 3" XD pistol is the ultimate in concealedcarry firearms. It’s the shortest compact polymer framed pistolavailable with a light rail.

Springfield Armory, in close collaboration with Insight Tech-

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But you need a carry rig to do the XD justice. Matt Del Fatti isone of the premier custom holster makers in the world. Mattdesigned this rough-out LP rig to carry the Sub-Compact 3" XDsecurely, in comfort and in style. The holster has a 15 degree cantto aid in the draw and 1.5" loops on fore and aft wings that pullthe gun in closer to the body for better concealment. The leathercombination includes the holster, a matching SM-F single maga-zine carrier and a tactical light carrier Matt designed just forAmerican COP to accommodate the XML rail mounted light.

To round out the Perfect Off Duty Combo you’ve got to havea knife. SOG Knives supplies their SOG TF-3 Trident Tigerstripe.

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Ispent 25 years in state and municipal policing. But I leftearly, taking a deferred pension, simply because of misman-agement, distorted thinking, administrative cowardice andself-serving behavior making it so difficult to do the job —and I held rank. I thought my agency had unique problemsdeveloped from some strange mix of collective bipolar dis-

order, hypoglycemia and Turret’s syndrome. But I was wrong— at least about the agency being unique.

Since leaving my department six years ago I’ve been con-sulting with and providing leadership development services to

agencies around the country. Frankly, I have been startled at thedegree to which most agencies experience similar managerialproblems. Chief among them is the response to organizationalerrors and the perceived threat of litigation.

Throughout the history of modern American law enforcement,the response to such problems is to legislate against them. Today,the aggregation of years of directives and proceduralization mani-fests itself in the form of policy and procedure manuals that havegrown from one volume, to two, and finally to the CD–ROM ver-sion. Heaven knows, an agency just can’t have enough rules. Inhuman beings, such undisciplined growth is called cancer.

We need to ask what this accomplishes. On balance, I’d say,

not very much. What’s the intent of such legislation? Clearly it’sto avoid future errors and reduce liability, direct or vicarious. Onthe surface, it makes sense. However, when decisions are rou-tinely made without considering their collective impact upon theorganizational system, unintended consequences result. In lawenforcement, these consequences are profound. Policies, proce-dures, rules, regulations and orders should facilitate the work. Forthis to happen, they must be developed in a strategic manner sup-porting the attainment of organizational goals and objectives.

A strategic approach is infrequent. Rather, today’s policy andprocedure manuals represent the accumulation of decisionsmade in response to individual errors and singular problems.The result is many agencies have a procedure manual that hasturned into a minefield which defines not how to do the job, butrather, what’s not permitted.

Shrinking Playing Field The size of the playing field we permit our cops has shrunk,

and so too has the potential of our organizations. Error avoid-ance overshadows goal attainment as the driving force in agen-cies, thus undermining the agency and undervaluing its people.In an era of shrinking budgets and doing more with less, howcan we afford an approach that doesn’t permit our people to use

the very skills for which they were hired? We can’t.We need to understand the job of professional law enforce-ment managers today is not to control human potential and


— Dysfunctional Management

OUR OWNWORST ENEMIES

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creativity — but release it. And thatmeans opening up the playing field.Widening the boundaries, doesn’t meaneliminating them. We need to focus onvalues and skills rather than simply therules and procedures. There’s no otherway to increase our effectiveness.

I’ve found the disparity between

managerial behavior and stated philos-ophy can be significant. Managers talkabout community policing, problemsolving, innovation, and risk-taking —but when errors occur the response isoften punitive. Apparently, police man-agers are the only ones on the planetwho believe new approaches can betried without mistakes.

Risk Vs Reward Personnel have an easy answer to this.

When risks outweigh rewards — do less.When uncertain about what a good job is

— do less. And with civil service protec-tion, they can do less without much con-cern as long as they perform at a margin-ally acceptable level. We’re seeing thisaround the country.

Few professions are presented with agreater need for managers and supervi-sors to instill motivation in their work-force because, quite frankly, superiorperformance is quite voluntary — get-ting by is good enough. Managers needto create meaning for their cops by pro-viding a clear statement that profession-alism and achievement are valued andrewarded — even if some mistakesresult. That’s how we learn and improve.

For those of you who become short of breath when considering the legal implica-tions of reducing our legislative approachto management: litigation directed at lawenforcement agencies is at an all timehigh. Our instinctive reactive approach hasnot reduced lawsuits one iota; all it’s doneis reduce our collective effectiveness.Reducing errors while doing the job is onething; reducing errors instead of doing the

job is quite something else. We simplymust stop impinging on the good-heartedefforts of the 95 percent of our personnel

who are truly trying to do the best they canin a misguided attempt to control the 5percent we never should have hired in thefirst place. That’s a prescription for medi-ocrity and what turns a 20-yearcareer into a 20-year sentence.

Rich DeParis is the Director of theCenter for Effective Leadership. He’s aretired Police Lieutenant with 25 years of

police work on both the East and West coasts. He holds a Doctorate in Public

Adm in ist rat io n and num erous ot heradvanced degrees. In other words he

spent way too long in school, studying ina police car and making his sergeant (me) proof-read his papers. Editorwww.centerforeffectiveleadership.org

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5.11 Challenge Doing Their Part.

The winners of the 5.11 Tactical Challenge, in thespirit of cops helping cops, donated their entirewinnings to assist cops and police departments

in the Hurricane Katrina devastated areas.The 5.11 Challenge is an international shooting

competition, which selects officers from all over the

world to compete for prizes valued at $175,000. LeeSouter and Bob Callan, the first place team fromTucson Police Department, donated their $100,000

prize package to police departments on the gulf coast. Chad Boardman and Robert Aquino, thesecond place team from U.S. Probation in LasVegas, is sending their $50,000 prize package to

probation offices and police departments in theGulfport, Mississippi area and Walla Walla PD rep-resented by Steve Harris and Kevin Huxoll selected Pescagoula Police Department in Mississippi toreceive their $25,000 package.

Bill Berry, the Executive Director of the 5.11Challenge, sent me this email while he was down in

the area and I thought I’d share it with all of you. Editor

Dave,As you know, I’m coordinating delivery of the prizes won by the 2005 finalists of the

5.11 Challenge to police departments devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Everyone hasasked me to make sure we get the prizes to those who truly need our help. I spent most of yesterday talking to several departments in the Gulfport Mississippi area.

I was struck by the chaos in the background and the grief in the voices of the offi-cers, chiefs and dispatchers. Additionally, I was uplifted by the sense of hope andappreciation when I explained what we were doing to help, even though it’s prettysmall in the big scheme of things. It’s clear many of the departments are still struggling

just to survive and any help is truly appreciated.I talked with Officer Richard Cuevas of the Pass Christian Police Department and he

was extremely helpful. He was filling in for dispatch and things were quite busy. The

police department didn’t have Internet access so he told me he’d send the sizes of theofficers on his department to me from his own Internet access at home. He said he wasblessed in the fact he didn’t get hit as hard as the rest of his friends and co-workers.

Copied below is the e-mail I got from Richard this morning. Take a moment toread about what Richard and his co-workers endured. This email reinforces how ourfirst responders have shown the courage to continue on in the face of danger anddestruction to serve and protect their citizens.

As I continue to organize this small relief effort I’ll try to keep you informed of thelittle stories about the brotherhood we belong to and how we back each other up whenthings go bad.It was hard not to cry when I got this note.

Bill Berry5.11 Tactical

Dear Mr. Berry,Attached are the sizes you requested during our telephone conversation on 9/29. I

hope this will help you complete your task. Thanks for everything you’ve already doneand are attempting to do for us. Also, I included our dispatcher’s sizes as well. If youcan assist with that please let me know because, like the rest of us, they too lost every-thing. I have 3 disks of aerial photos that may interest you. As well, I have photos oneof our officers took with his digital camera while he and 12 others were trapped in ourlibrary two blocks from the beach while the water was rising and raging.

There’s one other thing I would ask of you; our leader dispatcher, Ms. GloriaSanders, lost every thing. She was at the library with her only “child,” Jordan, (aChihuahua puppy) during the storm. During the height of the storm, while inside hiscarrier, Jordan was sucked away from her and pulled outside the library. Helplessly,she had to watch her “baby” drown. If you could help find her a way to rebuild ormoney or anything to regain some hope and stability we’d all be forever grateful. Iwill try to find her another Chihuahua puppy to help fill the void. My wife, childrenand I are blessed compared to everyone else,especially Ms. Gloria (aka Mama).

Again, thanks again for everything!Officer Richard Cuevas, #14, PCPD

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“Good Afternoon MA’AM!”

It’s day two of the police academy. I’m the shrink lecturingright after lunch. Great. I have an hour to talk to these shinyyoung faces about the toll a police career can take on their

psyches. How to get their attention? Pop quiz time.“On average, nationwide, how many police officers are killed

each year in the line of duty?”“400!” “250!” “800!” they shout out.“Nope,” I answer. “An average of 65 law enforcement offi-

cers are killed by bad guys every year. Now, how many cops killthemselves every year?”

The answers come more slowly. I have to prompt them.“Come on, guess!”

“25?” “50?” they mutter, stumbling,feeling embarrassed a bit.

“Wrong again,” I tell them. “About300 cops kill themselves every year.And it doesn’t end with retirement.Retired cops have a suicide rate fivetimes greater than the general popula-tion. The biggest danger you’ll face asa cop isn’t the bad guys. It’s you.”

They’re quiet. They’re somber. I

have their attention.

But Why? What is it about being a cop that

increases your suicide risk? Considersome predisposing factors.

You are very comfortable with, andhave literally at your fingertips, themost lethal means of suicide — your gun. For the rest of us agun is kind of scary. We handle them rarely, and never pointthem at another human being. For you, it’s a tool you use everyday, a tool you use to solve problems. When I first startedworking with cops 25 years ago some old-time officers hadnever pulled their guns out of their holsters in their entire

careers. Now it’s a regular occurrence.You are self-reliant problem solvers. Arrive on a scene,take control. Make the call, act on it. Unfortunately you do the

same thing in your personal lives. When in despair over afailed relationship or a job setback, you make a lethal decisionand follow it through, without checking it out with loved ones,or a mental health professional.

You’ve been to many suicide calls, ones that succeeded, othersthat didn’t. You’ve gone through the lethality learning curve.When cops attempt suicide, they succeed. You don’t take pills;you don’t turn on the gas in the oven. You shoot yourselves, in thechest or in the head.

You and a soldier are members of the only two groups of peoplesanctioned by our society to use violence to resolve issues. You areaccustomed to thinking of killing as an option — albeit a veryserious one — in your problem-solving repertoire.

You drink too much and usually alone when you’re troubled.Alcohol is involved in the majority of police suicides.

You have perfected command pres-ence. When you don’t want anyone toknow what’s going on inside you, you canhide it perfectly. One police captain, whotaught the stress class at the academy,stood on the dais at a policing conferencein front of 200 people, introduced thechief of police, told her staff she had an

errand to run, left and killed herself.This is the backdrop.

Chain Of Events The events precipitating police sui-

cide aren’t surprising. Relationshipissues top the list. Divorce, arguments,domestic violence, affairs (his/hers or

yours), anything you perceive as being the end of your rela-tionship can generate suicidal actions. If you are so distraughtthat suicide enters your mind, you may rationalize your lovedones will be better off without you, that suicide would be doingthem a favor.

Suicide has lifelong devastating effects on family mem-

bers. Grief is complicated by feelings of guilt, shame andanger. Children whose parent committed suicide are at muchhigher risk to commit suicide themselves. That’s the real

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When cops attempt suicide, they

succeed . You don’t take pills; you don’t

turn on the gas in the oven. You shoot yourselves , in the

chest or in the head.

DR. JOLEE J. BRUNTON

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legacy left by suicide.Next on the list is a major loss of face or

status at work. Things like discipline, beingpassed over for promotion or having otherofficers know your personal problems canbe a real blow to your self-esteem and makeyou feel out of control. Cops don’t like to beout of control. When you’re desperate anddespairing, suicide can seem like exercisingultimate control over your life. It can repre-sent the zenith of “screw you!” to all those

who have hurt or mistreated you.

Related Issues Suicides cluster in time and location.

One suicide begets more. Less than 24hours after the captain mentioned abovekilled herself, another officer on the samedepartment killed himself. In a 10-yearperiod, San Francisco had 10 suicides.San Diego had nine suicides in 12 years.In the same time period only two SanDiego Police officers were murdered inthe line of duty. Other departments reportsimilar trends.

Relationship, career disappointment, andother suicides are triggering events. But youall experience these things, and most of youdon’t even seriously think about suicide.

Try this scenario: You’re having areally tough time in your marriage, yourspouse and kids have had it with you,and the feeling is pretty much mutual.Work isn’t going so well either. You’vebeen passed over a few times for promo-tion and your performance is being scru-tinized. It’s 0200, you can’t sleep, you’rehalfway through a bottle of Jack Daniels,sad music’s on the radio. Your gun isright there on the table in front of you.Have another drink, it’ll numb the pain.

Alcohol. It lowers inhibition andimpairs judgment. You think stupid thingsand are more likely to act on them.Alcohol is the lubricant that eases thoughtto action — with tragic results.

As a police officer you are three to four times more like ly to die by yourown hand than be killed in the line of duty. Yet from the academy throughyour police career you will spend hun-dreds and hundreds of hours honingyour officer safety skills. How muchtime will you devote to keeping yourself

mentally strong and healthy?This is what I told those recruits at

the academy: Keep yourself physicallyand mentally fit. Make your relation-ships with family and friends a priority.Develop a strategic stress managementplan. Monitor yourself for feelings of depression and suicidal thoughts. Seekhelp at the first signs of emotional dis-tress. Do not drink alcohol while underemotional duress. Most law enforce-ment agencies provide some type of counseling and chaplain services. Findout what resources are available to you

and use them.Put the threat to your lives backout on the street where it belongs. *

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I N S I D E RRUMINATIONS Continued from page 82

Pentagon Lights

This company, located just south of San Francisco, Calif., is producingsome of the most affordable and usable tactical military grade illumina-tion tools on the market today. They equal or surpass anything availablefrom the big guys. Pentagon offers xenon, luxeon and LED lights that

are easy on the pocketbook but provide the performance we need in our job.Their weapon mounted systems are some of the most substantial I’ve

ever used. The rail-mounted systems are positive and give the user astrong, “there when you need it” tool worthy of professional use. Pentagonhas just introduced their MD Series lights. It’s a dual system that includesthe standard light coupled with a laser sighting system. The laser assemblycan even bequickly changed out in the field, to an optional LED for nightvision navigation or reduced signature red light.www.pentagonlight.com.

SideArmor Absolutely the best kydex

holster I’ve ever owned. Thisfamily owned business is located in Flagstaff, Arizona. Jeff Costa makes his ownmolds on his own CNC machines. He also fabricates the small aluminum fasteningparts as well. After the kydex comes out of the mold Jeff takes the CNC process onestep further and runs yet another program to work the edges of the kydex to a buttersmooth feel. There are no sharp edges whatsoever on the rig.

Jeff makes a modular design with adjustable cant to accommodate even cross drawuse. Use the provided allen tool to make the adjustment to fit your style or need.SideArmor’s magazine carrier is also a high tech adjustable affair. You can configurethe carrier for high or low vertical carry or horizontal carry if you like. If you’rethinking a top quality versatile kydex rig is on your list of things you need, giveSideArmor a call.

Their other holster offerings and rail systems for shotgun, rifle and pistol show the sameinnovative design and excellent manufacturing quality as the modular system.www.sidearmor.com.

Federal HST Ammunition

ATK is a huge company that makes everything from rocket boosters to .22 calibershorts. One of the ATK companies isFederal Ammunition. Before I retired

my department adopted the Federal HST rounds in 9mm, 40 S&W and .45 ACP+P as our duty ammo. This is serious Law Enforcement Only ammunition.

Now Charlie Petty might argue a number of points with me; especially that a.22 short applied correctly will stop any subject that needs to be shot — and he’sright about that. But how many folks on your department do you trust to makethat shot on a moving bad guy when your life depends on it? Not many I’d bet.

The downrange performance of the HST ammo is spectacular to say the least. Isaw the FBI gelatin test performed right in front of my eyes and all I could say was,“Wow.” I was saying wow again when I saw the real world, post autopsy perfor-mance on a couple guys on the losing end of gunfights with some of my cops. Thebullets looked like they were from a Federal Ammunition advertisement. That is if

you could get past the residual chunks of tissue and blood still on them. Expansionand penetration were both as advertised.www.le.atk.com.

Politically Correct Terms

A s a point of clarification to all American COP readers and writers, in this and future issues, we refuse to play the “his orher,” “she or he” word game, nor will we refer to “police officers, deputy sheriffs, deputy marshals, troopers, agents,” et -by-God-cetera. The terms “he,” “cops,” “troops,” and “officers” should be read as non-title, non-gender-specific, and inclu-

sive. Professional peace officers will understand and applaud this. Non-professionals and tall, spoiled children are neither our

concern, nor American COP’s intended audience.

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A COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE LOOK AT THINGS I LIKE

http://www.le.atk.com/

http://www.sidearmor.com/

http://www.pentagonlight.com/

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