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I t seems a number of Chiefs of Police have e-mailed,written or otherwise contacted American COP com-plaining of their treatment at our hands. It’s not reallysurprising, given this is a magazine aimed at the street

cop audience, that we would periodically bang administra-tors. Maybe what’s bugging the editor is one good exampleof poor decision-making.

There are magazines produced just for administrators,managers and chiefs. The house organ for IACP (no, it’snot “International Association of Communist Police!”) and

Law and Order are just two.

Let’s All Be The Same The first screwy decision on my list of Stupid Chief

Tricks is the issue handgun — after all, let’s have some-thing debatable, something we can all disagree on. We wantto be fair here.

We have a crew of instructors in town from allover the U.S. right now. One of them is an honest6' 9" tall. We have another who is 5'8" and a feweven shorter. We wouldn’t buy them shirts allsized 17.5" neck and 34" sleeves or their uni-form trousers sized 38" waist and 34" inseam— that wouldn’t make sense.

Would those t you? If so, your partner,your supervisor and the new rookie they justhired? It’s unlikely.

How about a new line of patrol cars wecould get very cheaply — but the frontseats don’t adjust and the steering wheelsdon’t tilt either? Due to the discount, wecould get more cars that way — but theywouldn’t t everyone.

The Chief would never buy intosuch nonsense — but he (or she,we’re under no illusions here)would force everyone below acertain rank to carry the same gun,loaded with the same ammunitionand often the same duty gear.

I can’t reach the trigger on the

Glock 21. Same on the SIG doubleaction autoloaders, the double stackThird Generat ion S&W line andothers. But there’re agencies that issue

those guns and don’t allow for different hand size.After all, the handgun is only the most important tool you

have to keep you from going home in a bag. Why should it t?

Monkey Suits Closely tailored, wool dress uniforms sure look pretty at a

parade. It’s stupid to be in one when you’re rolling around inan alley ghting a drunk at 0230 on a Saturday morning. Butwe all have to be uniform — we all must look alike.

Yeah, and at one time we all had to be males tallerthan 5'10" and couldn’t be nonwhite either. Thosechanges were taken care of and then we stopped.Why the ballerina suits — particularly with “highgloss” shoes and belts? What’s the point?

“Citizens expect us to look professional,”seems to be the Chief’s mantra.

Well, no. Actually, they like you toarrive to their call for assistance

quickly and to be understanding.They don’t give a damn whatyou’re wearing. Only administra-tors care about that crap. It makes

it seem like there’s some manage-ment going on down at the old P.D.

I’m aware of a temporary uni-form switch involving the wear of utilities until the new woolies

arrived. The citizens were just ashappy to see the cops arrive inutilities as they were after the util-ities went away.

Why not dress like you need towork? You expect the troops to chase

bad guys, climb fences and to fightwhen it’s needed — but that necktie

must never be out of place!Then there are the hats: Hats can be handy.

I’m not all against protective headgear. It’s a goodidea. But when you search a building looking fora fugitive and blank out the view above yourhead, that’s a bad idea. Wearing a “deputy” or

trooper-style hat during windy weather whileworking a wreck is silly too. Let’s lose them.Here’s an example of a grievous Stupid

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Ask a cop from any of the 39,000 agencies in the UShow often they train to actually fight with theirweapons, most would say something like “Well, wehave to qualify once or twice a year.” Ask themagain about tactics and rearms training and you’ll

not only get a less encouraging response, but they’re likely tolook at you as if you were combing your hair with a cow turdand speaking in tongues.

Next nd a SWAT cop from the same agency and pose thesame questions. This time you’ll get a long story abouttraining, a detailed round count and even a couple of shot uptrophy targets. It’s not just rearms training, but this is hands-on use of force training. Anyone see a problem here? The coptasked with being rst on scene gets the least training.

King’s X Statistically, patrol cops face the vast majority of vio-

lence, critical decision-making situations and assaultswithout the benefits of enhanced training. For example, anunknown bad guy blindsides an officer just wrapping upinterviews at a disturbance. Knocked to the ground and dis-oriented he rolls over to find the bad guy standing over him

delivering a vicious barrage of kicks and blows. Maybe heshould request a “time out” and call SWAT — no? Theofficer must act efficiently and appropriately in order to

GROUNDED OFFICER TACTICS

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Down doesn’t mean down and out. Always train to win — always expect to win.

Gun manipulation, stoppage clearance and reloading can be challenging from grounded positions, you need to train

for it. Let’s not be surprised.

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keep lives from being lost — espe-cially his own. Did the annual qualifi-cation session legitimately preparehim for this situation? Can he effi-ciently use trained tactics to safelyend this situation? Will the tacticswork? After his heart rate skyrocketsto 150+ beats per minute, can he per-

form under stress?In addition to the lack of training,there’s a misunderstanding about thenature of violent conflict. Conflict,particularly the type encountered bycops is all about immediacy — thereal world here and now. It’s criticalto recognize the reality of circum-stances and respond with appropriateaction. Beyond immediacy is the issueof efficiency, as keepers of peace andpublic order we’re held accountablefor every action we take and everyround we launch. Many folks in the

odd little community of training viewfirearms instruction as a system thatdeals with situations from solid stable

Static line shooting addresses little of the realities you’ll need to face in real world situations.

The supine position provides you with the ability to exploit angles , keep your head up and your eyes on the area of threat.

The supine position provides you with the ability to exploit angles, keep your head up and your eyes on the area of threat.

The supine position provides you with the ability to exploit angles, keep your head up and your eyes on the area of threat.

When the bad guy brings the ght to you, do what you must to win.Without training for it, you could lose — and that’s unacceptable.

Prone position provides a very low prole around cover,allowing you to maximize available cover.

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and upright shooting positions, at dis-tances of 7 yards or greater. This is ahuge, shortsighted and dangerousdelusion. True firearms and tacticstraining is a conceptual amalgamationof reduced time frames, poor lighting,unpredictable bad guys and unreliabletools. An array of paraphernalia usedat the acumen of the officer and dic-tated by the bad guy, the environment,and always requires a response of immediacy and efficiency. This is whyI’m an advocate of dynamic, realistictraining. Programs should condition ,not just teach .

Situat ions — Not Tools We need to know how to handle

situations not just mechanical tools.This is a transition from basic andintermediate skills to the realm of advanced t ra in ing . A t remendousnumber of sources tell us the vastmajority of officer-involved conflictsend up on the ground. What does

going to the ground have to do withgunfighting? Everything . Taking tothe ground may be a resul t of an

at tack or i t may be a tact icalmaneuver executed for the purpose of gaining the upper hand or simply tokeep from being shot. Either way,being able to operate from a groundedposition is crucial.

Conventional t raining wisdom(often an oxymoron) has taught usgoing to the ground is an evil anddetrimental event — unless you’vetrained for it. It’s important to con-sider going to the ground as justanother tool in the use-of-forcetoolbox. Grounded positions in a pro-

jectile exchange (train ing guy speakfor gunfight) can present you with aset of unconventional options. Fallingand rolling can be productive tactics,assuming the off icer understandsgoing to the ground doesn’t automati-

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and even shorter time frames, theability to quickly move and present aweapon is important. An ability toassume and take advantage of one of three grounded positions, supine,prone and lateral left or right, and theirvariations rapidly is equally important.

Basic Positions These three basic and simple posi-

tions represent the most commongrounded positions you can nd your-self in. What’s surprising, particularlyin light of facts surrounding the fre-quency cops end up on the ground, isthe lack of training focusing on thesetactics. I nd this a little troubling.

Over years observing countlesstraining sessions geared towardsofficer “survival” skill (I really hatethat word) , I ’ve found most arenothing more than firing from adapta-tions of stock shooting stances — fre-quently using one-dimensional andone-directional ranges. These limited

training environments only addresspart of the problem. Sure they mightget an officer past basic marksman-ship and comfortable with the conceptof shooting from unfamiliar positions,but because of the limitation createdby them they really don’t completethe cycle of training.

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tion of alcohol), and whether or not thetwitching you saw was caused by yourstrobe lights (turn ’em off, folks). Next,the speed at which you moved yournger (one of the manuals I have says itshould take four seconds to make eachpass), and how long you held the eye atmaximum deviation (again, my manualsays at least four seconds). Last, howyou knew when your nger was at a 45degree angle to their eye (onset of nys-tagmus prior to 45 degrees). You have toknow all of this for court; a truly goodDUI lawyer may keep you on the standfor several hours on HGN alone.

Breath, Blood Or Urine? Once you’ve done field sobriety

and hooked the guy up, it’s time forthe test. The breath machine is what-ever model your state law says it is,and you can’t change it. What you can

do, however, is avoid it entirely. In mystate, the officer can request a suspectsubmit to a test of one or more of threeoptions: blood, breath, or urine. Mostofficers, unless they suspect drugimpairment, go for breath — it’s

easier. Also, because the test sampledoesn’t have to be sent down to thestate Crime Lab for testing, you getresults quickly, and it cuts down onwitness problems when the case goes

to trial. In most cases, a solid breathtest is good enough to make most DUIguys plead guilty — that’s changing.

One of the classic attacks on anybreath machine — we use the Intoxi-lyzer 5000 — is, in order to get theblood alcohol concentration from thealcohol in the breath, the machine hasto assume there’s a certain rat iobetween the amount of alcohol in thebreath and what’s in the blood. Thereis — it’s called a “Partition Ratio,” —and the law assumes that it will be2,100. Defense lawyers can have a

heyday with this, arguing their clientshave unusual partition ratios, or thateveryone’s ratio is different and varies

DUI WEASELSContinued from page 52

DUI matters becausepeople die , people

whose only mistake was

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from minute-to-minute — all kinds of stuff designed to confuse jurors intoacquitting. That’s just one attack: acouple weeks ago there was a story onFox News about how eating breadwill make you blow .05.

I haven’t tried that experiment, and Ican’t say if it works. It doesn’t matter.The claim is out there, your jurors haveprobably heard it on TV, and you shouldexpect them to hear it in the courtroom if you request breath. Try blood. It’s better— blood and breath — better still.

Blood, however, is something thatthe law calls “fungible,” a nasty shortword meaning you have to do morepaperwork. No two blood samplesnecessarily look different from eachother, each sample must have a chainof custody showing every single pairof hands it passed through betweenyou and whoever tested it. You shouldalso record the ID of the blood drawer.

Don’t Dally

Whatever test you give, you’ll beattacked on the time frame betweenwhen the test was given and when thesuspect was driving. We all knowyour BAC changes as time passes—which lets the defense argue that,while you may know their BAC threehours later, you can’t prove what itwas at the t ime of driving. Theshorter the time window, the lessweight the argument carries. Withthings like wrecks, it’s not alwayspossible to shorten that window. Butwhen you can, do it.

In the closing segment of the DUIseminar, the presenter told a storyabout how he’d gotten one of hisclients out of her third-in-five DUIwhen she’d wrecked out with a BACthat went three times the legal limit.“And I’ve got her three pending DUIcases, too,” he beamed proudly.Everyone in the room laughed. Foranyone who’s tiptoed through thebloodstains and skidmarks, though,that’s not funny.

Shooting Into A Crowd Many murder victims, to some

extent, put themselves where they getkilled. Not DUI; it’s like firing into acrowd. DUI matters because people die ,people whose only mistake was being inthe way when some irresponsible foolcame careening across the centerline.

That’s why it’s worth seeing a seem-ingly minor crime turn into a four-daytrial with expert witnesses, whenreducing the charges would have meanta ve-minute plea bargain. That’s whyit’s worth taking a couple extra fieldsobriety classes, doing some extrahomework the night before trial and

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Chief Trick. One agency long haddress-only uniforms — no real utilityuniform for the more than 200 cops inthe outfit. The trousers had yellowpiping down the leg — not a wideyellow stripe, but thin piping.

Going from the $90+ dress trousersto utility trousers at around $30 a pairmade abundant sense, as did changingout shirts. But the (now-ex) chief decided the utility pants had to haveyellow piping down the leg.

No vendor wanted to dick with it;it’s too much trouble to do the finestitching required. A wide yellow striperaised no heartburn and the price didn’tgo up much. But, the chief had to havepiping. Now the utility trousers thatoriginally cost $30 from the factorycost the outt $100 per pair — just tohave piping — absurd!

What’s the deal with yellow piping?Well, back in the 1960s and 70s, copswould come in after a night shift, pulloff gunbelts and uniform shirts andwhile wearing their uniform trousers —go to the bar. That was unseemly in theeyes of the Chief of Police of that era— 30 to 40 years ago — and thus, thepiping was ushered in.

Nowadays, young cops get off work,wash down their tofu burger with a pro-tein shake and work out after their yogaclass. Hence, there’s no need for the hor-ribly expensive piping taxpayers pay for.

Options Let’s get debatable again — making

your agency’s use-of-force policy morerestrictive than the U.S. Constitution orstate law is yet another Stupid Chief Trick. The current use-of-force measureis a Fourth Amendment standard —your use of force has to be objectivelyreasonable when seen from the perspec-tive of the trained ofcer on the sceneand in the situation you nd yourself in.

If state law is more restrictive thanthe Constitutional standard, so be it.You have to follow state law. If yourdepartment further constrains yourability to make force decisions, they areliterally screwing themselves as rulemakers, screwing the municipality youwork for and the taxpayers who pay forthe whole thing. The tendency to over-think something this important is stupid.

Along the same lines, if fuel prices goup then we’ll cut training. After all,training is discretionary spending. No onewill really miss the training they didn’tget — until they’re in a ght, alone, onthe street or in a crack house. You knowChief, if you had to face the same threats

we did, you’d want to prepare for them.In the alternative, that icky, sweatystuff like defensive tactics or that fear-of-failure and perishable-skills training

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after round into him?Linear and lateral movement are a

given, but diagonal, oblique, zigzag andcircular patterns performed subcon-sciously and randomly, somewhat likethe flow of bayonet fighting, areinvolved with the ultimate goal of cre-ating distance, so two-handed sightedshooting can be brought to bear.

We have also been taught thatcrossing legs is a no–no, but it frequentlyoccurs. Knee-bend is pronounced and thegunman’s crouch is graphically evident.Hand ghting, with focus on the weapon,involves a urry of usually openhandedblocking, deecting and striking move-ments to distract, confuse, stun and pos-sibly disarm. Yeah, and at these rangesand conditions, forget your front sight forthe moment, but get back to it as youcreate distance between you and thehopefully disoriented threat.

You are so pumped up with yourwarrior mindset and your evasivechoreography that sustained injurieswill probably be ignored until youachieve victory and start to come downfrom your combat high. Sounds athleticbecause it is. Is it fair? No way, Josée.Won’t it be only on the rare occasionthat I will need these aggressive capa-bilities? Probably, but it’s the one per-cent chance that usually kills you.

New Breed’s Afrmation I had a young stud who is a profes-

sional gunman and field-office trainerfor a federal agency with very special,post 9/11 security duties look over mymissive, and he replied, “Looks good,Bob. Like I tell my guys, never standstill in a gunfight. It’s not realisticanyway. Shootouts, just look at anyvideos of shootouts, involve instinctualhuman movement and they are usuallyshort, violent and close quarter, arm’sreach or conversational distance. Badguys aren’t going to try to rob or carjackyou from 15 to 25 yards. Also, if I take ahandful of rocks and start throwing themat you, you’re not going to stand still

and let me do that. You are most likelygoing to move evasively and attempt toget away. If you pick up rocks to returnfire and maneuver to do so, we areengaging in a Dance of Death.”

Who Really Needs I t? Can you win without these skills?

Hopefully, but your opponent will mostlikely dictate the rules of engagement,so we should train for the worst-casescenario — right? This is why you, as acop in a position to lawfully deprivesomeone of their liberty and freedom,

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Insight Technologies, Inc. — not to be confused with Insight Techno logythe supplier of tactical lights and lasers to the U.S. Special Forces — is asmall company located outside Chicago, Ill. They make one thing and t heymake it very well. Their safety vests are of the highest quality I’ve everseen. Your department may have been provided a reective vest for traf cwork and we all know they’re uncomfortable and last about two sessio nsbefore they rip or fall apart. Not this vest. This one will last quite a wh ile.It’s made from high quality materials and the workmanship is outstandi ng.

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Pentagon Lights I saw this new light from Pentagon Lights and had to

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For military applications and the Swatologists out there,the light is designed and sized to securely clip on Mollegear. For the street cop, detective and anyone else, it easilyclips to a belt, shirt or jacket pocket or fits handily in apants pocket. The light provides 30 lumens of output over12 hours continuous running. The bulb is rated to give youaround 5,000 hours of service life.

The most astounding thing about it is the small price tag.I don’t put prices in the magazine but — when Pentagontold me the suggested retail price, I said, “Are you freakingkidding me?” except I didn’t use the word freaking. They’ll

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H ave you ever been to the Emergency Room? Nowthat’s a silly question. I used to live in the ER,it’s where I met my wife. But really, have you

ever been there off duty? With a few exceptions, youneed to have an advocate with you. You know,someone who speaks the particular dialect of that hos-pital or for that matter, department within the hospital.If you don’t have that person, you’re doomed. Notnecessarily in the you’re gonna die way but your visitwill undoubtedly be an exercise in misery. Longwaits, reduced levels of service, and theissue of the service provider just not goingthe extra step to make you happy, feel

secure or be comfortable in a situation youhave little if any control over.I’ve felt that way in a hospital situation

and with the plumber. I’m not a handyperson, so if I need repairs around the houseI’m compelled to hire someone who knowswhat they’re doing. I’ll wait four, ve orsix hours and then the guy shows upsmelling like the pet goat of a tran-sient, without the proper parts,tells me to just shut the water off for a few days, he’ll be back whenhe gets around to it and still wantsto charge me for a house call.

This is Toro Caca! What everhappened to people who take

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pride in their job? Where are the folks who really care andtake the extra steps if necessary to make someone’s life alittle easier? In either the ER or plumber situation we’re vul-

nerable. If we knew how to x things we'd do it our-selves and be that much better off for it. But when

we need someone, when things are out of ourcontrol and we don’t know how to handle it, wecall on that nurse or plumber to care for us. Andthey’re fairly well compensated for it too.

If you’ve experienced this, then you know just how some of the people who call us feel

when we get there. The tendency to wash out areport or shine on a victim because we don’t care for

their life-style is exactly the same thing. Put yourself in their position for a second and remember, per-

ception is reality for most people out there.Even if things are not exactly what they think

they are, if they’re thinking they are thatway, they are. Some may say that’s prettymuch the stupidest thing ever written in thismagazine but read it a few times and themeaning will magically appear — trust me —I was a sergeant — I’m here to help.

Don’t waste two hours washing out a reportthat you could nish in a half hour. Take a little

time with people; they may remember itfor the rest of their lives. They may

even tell their grandkids about it.Yes we handle the same issueseven times a day but it’s a sig-

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them like you’d want to be treated bythat nurse, doctor or plumber.

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The LEAA column on page 14 tells the story of a very lib-eral congressman who’ll have sway over the entire lawenforcement community for at least the next couple years.We need that like another ninth circuit decision. I would

have written, “hole in my head” but that’s kind of what theirdecisions are anyway. How on earth did we get to this point?

I think the media has so distorted the war in Iraq and the

President’s role there; it’s just another nail in the Repub-lican Party’s coffin. Not that the Republicans need any helpburying themselves. They’ve done a stunningly brilliant jobof just that. Congressional Page scandals, Randy Cun-ningham’s excruciatingly disappointing betrayal of hisoffice by taking bribes, a huge deficit, out of controlspending and total head-in-the-sand (or in somewhere else)inaction on the illegal immigration crisis just scratch thesurface. Folks are tired of the crap and voted for a change. I

just wish it wasn’t this change.We’ll get through it, we have in the past and we will

again sometime in the future but it’s going to be painful. Asa group, law enforcement needs to do a better job of pointing out the morons in public life. John Conyers,Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is indeed one of them. I’m sure there will be one running for President in thenext election too. I’m just not sure which party they’ll beaffiliated with. We need to band together and yell loudly —

hell, shriek — from the watchtower about who has theirhead up their butt and who doesn’t.Usually we let our unions or associations do it for us. But

they’re just as much of the problem. Admittedly, their job is toget us the best pay and benets they can. It’s their responsibilityto do that. But when they support one of the morons we shouldbe shrieking about, it’s time for them to take a step back andlook at the overall good. This guy might want the unions to geta raise for their members but he’s also the one who wants to doaway with a cop’s rights or strip us of certain immunity fromprosecution. That’s a bad move.

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