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Skinhead membership has traditionally drawn from dysfunctional working-class families, and it appears that many skinheads come from broken homes. Members can be as young as 13 and as old as 25. They typically possess average intelligence, but are often poorly educated.
Read More →Dealing with the unexpected and unusual are two reasons I became a police officer. If I had wanted a dull job, I would have become an accountant. Yet there are just some things even a 13-year veteran of the LAPD is not ready for.
Read More →Great strides have been made in police technology over the last 25 years. Advances are evident in almost every area of police work from the collection of evidence to the use of computers in squad cars. But when it comes to training, one law enforcement team has drawn from the past to develop a method for controlling violent subjects.
Read More →Our profession as police officers places us in that special category of first responders. We often respond to accident scenes where community members have, through stupidity or misfortune, tangled with trains or trolley systems. In all cases, the train wins.
Read More →John P. Kary's training program, part of American Combatives Inc., differs from more traditional instruction in that its focus is offensive rather than defensive. This offensive approach prevents a grappling situation over a weapon and instead diverts the attacker's attention to his own survival.
Read More →While police recruits and officers spend many hours of training learning physical methods of arrest, little (if any) time is spent discussing how an officer's actions may affect a subject's behavior and thought processes. Awareness of officer/subject reaction can be thought of as "tactical psychology." and it is a valuable tool to include in your overall officer safety profile.
Read More →The Crips and Bloods have now moved into their second generations, and traditions are being established within these gang families. The street gang lifestyle has become an acceptable way of living for some families.
Read More →The Orlando PD is fortunate to have such a conscientious field training officer, whose sincerity and attentiveness will go a long way to mold new recruits into officers who know what it means to serve the community. It's a small gesture with big returns.
Read More →Responding to calls involving violent, incoherent or uncontrollable subjects is never easy. Unlike rational individuals who can be taken into custody with little more than a show of authority, irrational subjects are extremely unpredictable.
Read More →The Southeast Asian street gang is a fairly new threat on the gang battlefield. Their presence was first noted by law enforcement officials in Southern California in the late 1970s.
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