Why There’s No Off Ramp: Police Firearms Training Prevents De-escalation
Article 061 – Traditional training methods produce skills that are physically separated from the brain’s ability to process information and change behavior. This is no longer acceptable for armed professionals.
It’s Time for a Hollywood Reckoning
Article 060 – Leading members of Hollywood are known for virtue signaling—often with absurd hypocrisy. When it comes to gun safety, they should be held accountable for it.
Gun Safety Failure
Article 058 – Gun Safety Failure: The “Rust” movie set tragedy highlights fatal flaws in traditional gun safety rules.
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.