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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…