Dave Young

Dave Young is the director of specialized programming for RedMan Training at Northcentral Technical College. He has more than 20 years of combined civilian and military law enforcement and training experience, having served as a certified corrections and law enforcement officer in Florida, and as a gate sentry, patrol officer, watch commander, investigator, and Special Reaction Team leader and commander in the U.S. Marine Corps. Young is recognized as one of the leading defensive tactics instructors specializing in crowd management, chemical munitions, specialty impact munitions, protocol and selection of gear and munitions, ground defense tactics, and water-based defensive tactics. He is a member of the Police Magazine Advisory Board and a technical advisory board member for the Force Science Research Center.

Surviving as a Hostage

As police officers (and especially if you work corrections) in the United States or Canada, you have to ask this question: What would you do if you were taken hostage?

September 4, 2018

Someone planning to abduct you will follow you to gather information that will aid in your capture. (Photo: Anthony and Tracy Sherman from Genesis Group)

Pre-Attack Indicators

Learn how to tell someone is about to assault you long before they make their first move.

February 8, 2018

If your hands are down by your side, you're not in the best possible tactical position. A better position is hands up and out in front of you, as in the 'tactical thinking stance.' This stance projects a professional image and position of advantage. Photo: Dave Young

Change Your Thinking About Gun Grabs

Do you have the training and gear to protect your duty weapon or are you just hopeful nothing will happen?

November 3, 2017

Using a modified power lock from the ground, completing the move pulls the attacker down to the ground as well. Photo: Dave Young

Accessing and Drawing the Tools on Your Belt

When it comes to your duty belt, the most important question is whether you can get to what you need when you need it.

September 5, 2017

Photo: Anthony Sherman, President of Genesis Group

Make Your Training Real

If your defensive tactics training doesn't reproduce the conditions you will face on the street, then you are training to fail.

August 7, 2017

Training wearing full gear in the water will help officers prepare to swim with extra weight should they need to do so in the field. Photo by Dave Young.

Crowd Management: Preparing for the Storm

The good news is that crowd management and crowd control techniques have been refined over the last few years. The bad news is you're going to need them and more to keep the peace. So this is a good time to review crowd management tactics and prepare yourself for the hard days ahead.

August 27, 2012

Photo courtesy of Dave Young.

The History of Crowd Management

Riot lines of officers with little protective gear in the 1920s gave way to the use of chemical agents in the 1970s.

August 27, 2012

Photo courtesy of Dave Young.

Redefining Fit for Duty

An officer's physical fitness is a concern not just because the officers are overweight and might develop a debilitating health condition in their later years. It's an officer survival issue. It could put an officer at a serious disadvantage when he or she faces a more physically fit bad guy who has the mindset to win.

July 31, 2008

Get Ready to Read the Riot Act

Regardless of the actors involved, when an angry protest hits the streets of your city, you will be called upon to maintain the peace and prevent or stop violence.

April 30, 2008

How to Deploy Impact Munitions

Today, law enforcement has access to a wide range of impact munitions that can be used for numerous applications. Yes, rubber and wooden baton rounds are still used in riot control, but more sophisticated impact rounds can be used to prevent suicides, to stop dog attacks, and in other uses that might have once required lethal force.

November 30, 2007

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