Hate Won’t Help
Article 055 – Police use of force training is provably ineffective. We can fix it—but not by destroying the criminal justice system.
Qualification Needs To Go
Article 054 – Firearms qualifications used by most professional organizations are not just unrelated to real world firearms use, they are a significant part of the problem…
Police Training Fails Everyone
Article 052 – Fixing it can become the common ground we seek.
What Does it Mean to Succeed?
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
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
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?
Let’s Fix What’s Broken
Article 047 – Why we need to make big, structural, changes in firearms and tactical training.
2019 GALEFI Conference
The second hour of our prepared remarks from the Georgia Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors conference.
Kinesthetic Shooting – Killing a False God
Article 042 – Teaching point shooting first can harm students, permanently.
Human Collateral
Article 040 – What if we should start evaluating training success by looking at our failures?