Building Pre-Traumatic Stress Resilience – Part 2
Building Shooters
August 31, 2020
Article 053 – Proposing a model for understanding stress-related neural processing in tactical settings.
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Police Training Fails Everyone
Building Shooters
June 23, 2020
Article 052 – Fixing it can become the common ground we seek.
Building Pre-Traumatic Stress Resilience – Part 1
Building Shooters
May 18, 2020
Article 051 – There has been a lot of work on performing under stress the past few decades. Some of it may need to be reexamined.
What Does it Mean to Succeed?
Building Shooters
April 11, 2020
Article 050 – Whether what we are doing works or not depends heavily on what the definition of success looks like. Why do we still not have an answer?
Why a Field Training Model Fails
Building Shooters
March 26, 2020
Article 049 – On the job training and mentoring programs work when two conditions are met. The mentor must know how to do and teach the task well, and the task must frequently be performed on the job. Neither of these apply to firearms training.
Money Won’t Fix Police Training
Building Shooters
March 11, 2020
Article 048 – “Failure to train is one of the biggest areas of liability in law enforcement.” If this is true, then why does law enforcement continue to use training methods that don’t work?