David M. Eagleman, PhD
Advisor
Dr. David M. Eagleman earned his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute. He serves on the editorial boards of the scientific journals PLoS One and Journal of Vision.
Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine, he is also the founder and director of Baylor College of Medicine's Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. The project brings together a unique collaboration of neurobiologists, legal scholars, and policy makers, with the goal of building modern, evidence-based policy.
Dr. Eagleman is a faculty affiliate at the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.
TORIS Research
Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.Read more…
Curriculum Design
Training for lethal force situations prepares operators for the most stressful and highest-risk moments of an entire career. Regardless of the tools used, the training must ingrain the ability to deliver sufficient injury to stop a lethal threat and the judgment to use that ability properly. Firearms are a core portion of an operator’s training, but it is easy to foresee deadly situations where a firearm is difficult or impossible to bring to bear. Unable to draw, a mechanical failure, struggling for control of a weapon…Read more…
Risk Management
With the ad hoc nature of Defensive Tactics (DT) technique selection, most agencies are operating without soundly engineered and medically reviewed DT programs. When instructors are untrained in the associated knowledge of injury mechanisms, scope, and probability, they may fail to communicate the actual risk of serious injury. In addition, there may be liberal use-of-force policies that do not take into account the disguised risk of injury… Read more…