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The gear and training employed by officers is much different today, partly as a result of the FBI Miami shootout. There have been other game-changing gunfights in the last quarter century. The following article examines each of them and how they changed your tactics, procedures, and policies.

Chief Gerald Garner brings more than 40 years of law enforcement experience to his "High-Risk Patrol: Reducing the Danger to You." With the book, Chief Garner provides a general orientation for survival and details the specifics the intelligent police professional must master to come out on top in risk situations such as vehicle stops, DV calls, intoxicated subjects, hostage takers, ambush attacks, prisoner transport, emotionally disturbed subjects and off-duty confrontations.

This dash-cam footage prompted prosuctors in Washtenaw County, Mich., to reopen their review of Pittsfield Township Police Officer Tracy Yurkunas' shooting of a domestic violence suspect during a vehicle stop.

VIDMIC filmed this recreation of officers using its on-body unit. The video shows officers responding to a man with a knife to illustrate the point of view captured by the VIDMIC. Source: VIDMIC.

New Hampshire State Trooper Charles West halted a town's troubled resident who had killed two officers and a newspaper editor during a murderous rampage while armed with an AR-15 and ballistic vest.