Officer Safety

Drive to Survive: Speeding Kills

Some think using lights and siren makes it appropriate to exceed the speed limit. Nothing could be more false, and doing so often causes terrible tragedies.

Posted Monday, February 2, 2009

Tactical or Tacti-Cool?

Officers must start demanding realistic training from their departments. Trainers must start demanding the authority to teach what's effective.

Posted Monday, February 2, 2009

Low Light Threat Management

Flashlight-assisted shooting techniques for your tactical toolbox.

Posted Friday, January 2, 2009

Drive to Survive: Winter Driving

The safest way to handle snow and ice is to not drive in it. However, for law enforcement officers, this is not an option.

Posted Friday, January 2, 2009

Drive to Survive: Roadway Safety

On average, one officer is killed each month while standing in the roadway, and countless others are injured.

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008

...But what you don’t know is that terrorists have walked unabated into a middle school near your station, forced 1,800 students and teachers into the auditorium and killed several hostages who resisted their takeover.

Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Origins of EMS in Military Medicine

“It is appropriate that experience during unavoidable ‘epidemics of trauma’ be exploited in improving our national capability to provide better surgical and medical care for our citizens.”

Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2008