As an American law enforcement professional, you are a special individual who has followed a higher calling, voluntarily defending the lives and property...

There's a lot you can learn from veteran and retired officers who have worn the badge before you, including how to thrive and prosper in the law...

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The great Bill Jordan once said: "There is no second-place winner in a gunfight." Even if you take nothing else away from this article, I ask that you...

During this critical period, your agency and your fellow cops are checking you out; make sure they like what they see.

Much of what I learned in basic academy in the late 1960s is no longer good law. If I were still operating on the basis of 40-year-old...

Sometimes you can use finesse to gain compliance and stop a situation from escalating into violence.

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They may seem disorganized, they may act stupid, they may look really young, but they are deadly and cunning as sharks.