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SHOT Show 2023: Bullpups, 1911s, and More at Industry Day at the Range

During Industry Day at the Range I tried the Hellion , Springfield Armory’s .556 bullpup design. It shoulders and feels balanced during fire, and packs a lot of capability into a package that is just 28.85 inches overall in length.

January 16, 2023

Desert Tech packages a sniper rifle into a bullpup for a compact design.

Developing Decision-Making in Police Training: The Bad, the Good, and the "Sexy"

Judgment and decision-making are pretty much the top two cognitive capabilities a law enforcement professional must possess. Fortunately, judgement decision-making ability can be trained—and possibly even fixed.

January 13, 2023

5 Things to Know Before Buying Intelligent Weapons Lockers

“We’re seeing the need across law enforcement for securing, managing, and auditing any piece of equipment. Whether it's a radio, whether it's a firearm, whether it's a vehicle, there is a need to drive accountability over that piece of equipment,” says Craig Newell, vice president of sales and development at Traka.

January 11, 2023

Modern weapons storage systems provide an audit trail electronically.

10 Tips for Starting a Tactical Medicine Program

“First and foremost, it's about officer safety. The guys have a dangerous job and traditionally they haven't been given the tools and the training they need to protect themselves and their friends, their partners, when they get hurt,” says Dr. Joe Nakagawa, medical director.

January 10, 2023

Officers are placed in a training scenerio as part of a tactical medicine program at the Hawthorne Police Department.

10 Tips for Better Managing Officer Stress

"If you can manage your own internal stress level and overall mental health experience, then you're more likely to be able to stick in this career long term because you're just going to have enough bandwidth to keep going,” Dr. Jennifer Prohaska explains.

January 9, 2023

Jennifer Prohaska, Ph.D, shares 10 tips to help officers manage stress.

3 More Not-So-Obvious Areas of Focus for Police Trainers in 2023

It's a worthwhile exercise to speak with officers, shift supervisors, academy instructors, and any other "stakeholder" in the organization to unearth and understand areas in which even the smallest most incremental improvement can be made through increased training.

January 9, 2023

Reconciling the Duality of Defunding the Police and Demanding Higher Standards

The public, the press, and the political elites make all sorts of noise about wanting the very best of the best from the police. This legitimate desire—demand, even—is at least in part delegitimized when it comes from the same people who have vilified and eviscerated the police for the past half-decade.

January 6, 2023

10 Tips for Crisis Communications

“I've handled a lot of big incidents in my time and in the 12 years before I came to Boulder, there was nothing like the King Soopers shooting. Everything is permanently etched in my mind,” says Dionne Waugh, Boulder Police Department public information officer.

January 4, 2023

Public information officers balance answering requests from media while also informing the community following critical incidents.

Agencies "Brace" for Annual Spate of Training to Enforce Newly Passed Laws

Ever-evolving laws governing both police and citizen behavior isn't news for which law enforcement agencies and/or officers must "brace" themselves, but it's also news that cannot be ignored.

December 30, 2022

Using Tech to Keep Communities Safe During New Year’s Eve and Other Mass Gatherings

The ability to move people quickly, both into and out of these large gatherings, can help reduce stress in the environment. Get them out quickly and headed home safely and there is less chance tempers can flare and confrontations arise.

December 26, 2022

The Axis Experience Center demonstrates how video feeds can be used to drive police response efficiencies.

2022 in Review: Police Trainers Speak Out on the Year's Toughest Challenges

Responding to an informal—and totally unscientific—poll, law enforcement educators and trainers from around the country pointed to shrinking budgets and increasing anti-police sentiment, but paramount in the list of challenges facing them in the past 12 months was officer recruiting and retention.

December 26, 2022

2022 In Review Training

2022 in Review: 3 Police Leaders' Thoughts on the Recruiting & Retention Crisis

Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Executive Director Chuck Wexler, National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes, and International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) Deputy Executive Director Brian Willis offer ideas on what many people believe was the most difficult challenge police leaders and trainers faced in 2022.

December 26, 2022

Help Now Available for Cops with Moral Injuries

“It's not a mental health disorder I want to make that absolutely clear. Even the psychiatrists who study moral injury say it is not a mental health disorder, but it is an intense kind of suffering because you lose your sense of being a good person,” says Rita N. Brock, Ph.D., senior vice president and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

December 23, 2022

2022 in Review: 3 General Trends Dominating the Headlines on Police Training

Over the past year, the news has largely tended to fall into three main categories: budgets/inflation, de-escalation training, and recruiting/retention—the ongoing focus on these three topics is entirely unsurprising.

December 23, 2022

10 Tips for a New Police Chief

Whether you are a new chief, having recently been promoted or selected for the position, or you are an experienced chief who has moved to a new agency, there are several steps you can take to set yourself, and your agency, up for success.

December 22, 2022

Chief John Letteney, IACP president, provides tips that can help any new police chief.

10 Tips for Surviving Cold Weather on Duty

“You build up your equipment list over the years, things that work and things that don't work, things that are comfortable and things that are not, and you just kind of roll with the punches," says Sgt. Jordan R. Grabar, of the Erie County Sheriff's Office.

December 20, 2022

In Erie County, NY, sheriff's office deputies face some of the harshest winter conditions.

5 Things to Know Before Buying Tactical Communications

“The other aspect of this is that let's say you've assigned an officer with his radio; he's got his speaker microphone that he wears on his chest or something like that. You don't necessarily want people on the other side of that door to hear that radio," says Mike Griffith.

December 19, 2022

Communications options are varied, so where to you start in determining your department's needs?

10 Tips From North Pole For Officers Working on Christmas

There is almost nothing more enjoyable than picking up a good warrant arrest or two on Christmas, New Year’s, or Thanksgiving for that matter. Yes, the DA might dismiss the case, but you get the satisfaction of knowing that your special someone won’t be opening their presents or cutting into a juicy Christmas turkey. Don’t want to spend the holidays with Officer Friendly? Don’t ignore the law!

December 16, 2022

Tips For Working Christmas Photo

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