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Human Factors in Law Enforcement: Ambient Vision
When we consider the fact that a near-contact assault against an officer (physical attack, impact weapon, edged [...]
Critical Human Factors in Law Enforcement: Foveal Vision
When officers are confronted with spontaneous threats at close range, the effective response to controlling and surviving [...]
Training Scar: Understanding Some Basic Human Factors 1
Much of the current training paradigm in law enforcement firearms training is conditioning officers for precisely [...]
Training Scar: Shot in the Head
There is a massive disconnect between the human factors of spontaneous, rapid threats at close range and [...]
“Sleep On It! ; Sleep, Memory and the Officer Interview”
Inspector (Ret.) Chris Butler New Research Improves Understanding of the Relationship between Sleep and Memory Consolidation Decades [...]
Forced To Shoot – Subject-Precipitated Homicide
Inspector (Ret.) Chris Butler Subject-precipitated homicide (SPH) refers to incidents in which a citizen consciously engages in [...]
Does Handcuffed Equal Harmless?
I was recently involved in a use of force investigation where two police officers utilized physical force [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off, I Didn’t Pull The Trigger, Honest!” Part 6
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes Part 6 of 7 Inspector (Ret) [...]
When to Interview?
Inspector (Ret) Chris Butler On July 31st the Washington Post published a very thought-provoking article by Tom [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off, I Didn’t Pull The Trigger, Honest!” Part 5
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes; Part 5 of 7 Inspector (Ret) [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off! I Didn’t Pull The Trigger, Honest!” Part 4
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes; Part 4 of 7 Inspector (Ret) [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off! I didn’t Pull The Trigger, Honest!” Part 3
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes - Part 3 of 7 Inspector [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off! I Didn’t Pull the Trigger, Honest!” Part 2
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes - Part 2 of a 7 [...]
“The Gun Just Went Off! I Didn’t Pull the Trigger, Honest!” Part 1
Unintended Firearms Discharges in Law Enforcement – Principle and Contributory Causes - Part 1 of a 7 [...]