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N Y C it y c o ps . W ha tdoes Randy Weaver ’swife think of the FBI?Oops, we can’t ask these

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More Moronic Musings Your staffer, Dave Douglas and your

readers chose to attack the character of Steven Seagal and of myself rather thanmake an intelligent reply to the issues I

raised in my letter (Sept/Oct issue.)The integrity of cops is not anissue according to your readers. Let’sask the athletes at Duke Universityhow they feel about being chargedfalsely with rape. Let’s see how Wal-Mart feels about being looted by 12New Orleans cops caught on tapeafter Hurricane Katrina. Let’s askAmadou Diallo about the integrity of

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RETURN FIREvest-wearing, radio-assisted policeofficers. I did not know crime was nota problem for us ordinary citizens whohave to face attacks alone and oftenwithout weapons.

But my absolute favorite was whencop Mike S. said I am writing to Amer-ican COP to drum up business for myknife instruction classes. Now Dave,THAT is an “ignorant moron.”

Apparently I did tell the truth in myrst letter. To paraphrase Shakespeare,“You protest too much.”

Michael Ruppert,Renott Training & Supplies

Mr. Ruppert, staffer? I’m the editor— not a staffer. The editor’s the guyresponsible for the content of the maga-

zine — all the content — including thearticles, photos, direction and overall“look and feel” of the publication. Got

a problem? It’s with me. Ju st to se t th e record st ra ight , I actually do like Steven Seagal. Most of his movies, while not necessarily deep,are entertaining. When I go to themovies I want to be entertained — not

preached to. His work accomplishesthat. He’s a man of deep convictionwho lives his life with integrity and I respect that. Besides he’s an avid shooter and, like me, owns a numberof guns made by my favorite gunsmithand one of the finest men I know, TerryTussey. One of Terry’s guns is featured in this issue.

But on to you — Cops have to dealwith the dregs of society on a dailybasis. It can get to you at times. But then you come across a motivated and appreciative citizen or a victim who

recognizes your efforts even whenthey’re going through a difficult oreven traumatic event. Those are thegolden times that surprise and delight

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The only reason I con-tinue to reprint your

inane garbage is to re-educate cops to the fact

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cops who treat security guards as onestep above the criminal element bothare there to protect against.

Security guards can be the “eyesand ears” of the community and gowhere cops cannot. They often over-

hear or come across vital informationthat could benet an investigation. Thesecurity guard/cop relationship can besymbiotic and benefit both parties.Patience, understanding and respect on

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the part of the cop can go a long wayto improving this relationship. Inreturn, the guard can do his assigned

job and, when asked, might be able toprovide a vital piece of intelligence.

In this ever-increasing era of ter-rorism, police departments need toeducate their officers in the role of the security guard and how to workclosely with private securi ty andsecuri ty companies to improvetraining. Mutual respect and coopera-tion can help to protect this countryfrom its enemies.

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I think you can tell American COPshares your opinion. We’ve had a dedi-cated column on professional securityin each issue from the very beginning.

My fr ie nd Pa ul Ma rk el sta rte d th ecolumn and has since moved to the

Hard Tools column as our Equipment Editor. Ed Pulombo now handles theProfessional Security column chores.

Ed worked for me when I was a newsergeant in our downtown area. Hewas one hell of a street cop and a trulygifted investigator. He too was lured away from traditional law enforcement by the private sector. Ed is the Global

Security Manager for, a giant in theinformation technologies eld.

Security professionals are obviouslyan under-used resource. We’ll continueto make every effort to encourage that

fact’s demise. Dave

Not Like Mikey The Moron Love the mag — retired after 40

years and 25 of that as a firearmsinstructor. I can tell you why the brasswon’t take action against an officerwho commits a serious range safetyviolation. They’re afraid it will beused against them in a lawsuit if theofficer dings someone down the roadwhile on duty. It’s simply the old“CYA” syndrome. If it is not a matterof record in his file, a defense attorneyprobably won’t find out about it. Of course, in my former agencies, it alsodepended on who the violator was —

one of the admin-in crowd — orsomeone they wished to f-mess with,for whatever reason. Take care andkeep up the good work.

Charles N Culp,Edgewood, Md.

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did this — not you.I’m not a cop but enjoy and am

occasionally instructed by the articles— keep it up! You’re needed.

Jon DunganOdessa, Texas

Jon, if you had the secret decoderdevice we issue to selected tacticaloperators, demons of darkness, doublesecret ninja government operativesand the guy who cleans up the officeevery other Tuesday, you’d see amicroscopic secret ink plus signbetween the one and the two and that equals three. Not buying it? Well – Err

– I ah – Okay, my screw-up. You’reright it is three hours. I’ll be morecareful in the future. Thanks forcatching it and thanks forreading COP . Dave

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your fine magazine. He passes it on tome and I enjoy the no nonsense, tell itlike it is views from the street. Thetechnical and educational columns in

American COP are right on target andshould be required reading for ourchiefs. Wouldn’t it be great to see anew political party that isn’t filledwith a bunch of self-serving idiots?Lets all vote Anti-Toro Caca.

Dan LawrenzChaska, Minn.

Great work with the magazine. Iplan on being a longtime subscriber —till my daisy pushing up days. I likethe recent Tora Caca about politics, ithits the bullseye for sure

David Moore,Osan Air Base, South Korea

OOPS

A question regarding your Rumina-tions column in the March/April 07issue. You mentioned the Pentagonlight saying it runs 12 hours on oneAA battery.

I had my son fire up his computerand check this out. I found the com-pany says three hours on one AA bat-tery. Whoa! I hope the printer devil

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has introduced a bill that is called theLaw Enforcement Ofcers Safety Actof 2007. On its face it’s intended toexpand coverage of the LEOSAandaddress the training/qualication issuesthat have hamstrung retirees across thecountry. Sadly, however well inten-tioned this bill may have been, itdoesn’t do enough. It expands LEOSAprotection only to Amtrak Police andofcers of the executive branch of theFederal Government. Nor does it solvethe rearm training/qualication issue.

In the past, the key opponents of our efforts have beenthe anti-gun organizations, certain Democrats, andsome “Chief’s groups” who seem more than happy toexchange officer safety for political loyalty or gain.

While we are working to expand self-defense, Paul Helmke(of the Brady Campaign) has made his intentions clear: Byusing the fear of rising crime and the growing alliance withbig city Mayors and their Chiefs, he’s looking to begin,“reversing some of the backward steps they’ve taken overthe past four to six years.”

The antigunners opposed cop carry when LEAA pro-posed it in the early 1990s; they supported amendments towater it down or make it more limited; they opposed itright through the day the President signed our bill. It seemsthey now see it as a “backward step” they’d like to undo.To help in this fight, please send a

contribution — or join LEAA.Contact: www.leaa.org or by phone at 703-847-2677.


LEAA JAMES J. FOTIS

THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ALLIANCE OF AMERICA.

James J. Fotis is a retired officer f rom New York and the Executive Director of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA). LEAA works to promote officer sa fety issues, dthe belief that gun control is not crime control. You can find out more or become a member of the hard-hitting, conservative, unabashedly pro-cop, pro-gun, pro-self defense LEAA

When LEAA originally launched the idea of cop carry we wanted a simple law, appliedbroadly, including all active and retiredcops; didn’t have onerous training andwould protect cops from arrest for carrying a concealed

handgun. We saw it as a bar to prosecution rather than adefense to be used after arrest.

With your help, this is what LEAA would like to do:We want to introduce a bill to Congress that says everyactive and retired officer who wants to carry can,without fear of arrest or prosecution, with a system thatis easy, fair and broadly applied to all who have pro-tected and served.

Make no mistake — this is going to be a tough battle.The National Journal has summed up the political battle-eld, “With Democrats running Congress for the rsttime since 1994, gun control advocates have more

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THE FIGHT TOLET LEOSCARRY GUNSBEGINS AGAIN!

A lready, New York City prose-cuted an out-of-state law enforce-ment ofcer for carrying a gun.Thankfully, the court ruled in

favor of the ofcer and mentionedLEOSAin its decision. Elsewhereretired ofcers can’t get their “trainingtickets” punched; some agencies won’ttouch training/qualication at all.

LEAA has been working — to the

limits of our capacity, staff and money— to stay on top of these issues. In Vir-ginia we worked a legislative initiativethat would have allowed all qualiedretired ofcers to carry simply by pre-senting their retired ID and an easilyobtained state issued ConcealedHandgun Permit; no training and no spe-cial “annual” fees. Sadly, the bill failed.

On the federal level, Senator Leahy

New York Prosecuted Cop

There’s been a 15-year battle in America for legislationallowing off-duty and retired law enforcement to carryconcealed handguns for self-defense. LEAA has led thisbattle (for updates go to www.leaa.org) and we are contin-

uing the ght. But, the law enforcement community supportingthis idea is up against a tough adversary — we’re out-gunned.

The ght for law enforcement carry is often called H.R.218 or National Cop Carry. President Bush signed it into lawin 2004 and it started being called the Law EnforcementOfcer’s Safety Act of 2004 (LEOSA). What has evolvedsince signing resembles a slow-speed train wreck (especiallyrelated to retired ofcers).

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From left, the Ultra CDP II™ .45 ACP, Aegis II™ 9mm and Ultra RCP II™ .45 ACPalong with the new Kimber LifeAct™ Guardian Angel™ non-lethal self defense device.

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“Ilove you, but you’re not the same person I married.You’ve changed.” How many of us have heardthat? I know I have, and not only from mywife and family but from my non-cor-

rectional friends as well — at least the“you’ve changed” part anyway. When youhave to discipline your kids, does “go toyour room” really mean, “get back inyour cell?” How many of us take theuniform off but keep the attitudeswitched on?

The job of Correctional Ofcer

can change you forever. It’s a dif-ferent world inside the prison.Different from any you’ve everread about or seen in themovies. In order to survive inthis world you must adapt —you must change. The ques-tion is, can you make theadjustments you need tosurvive behind the wallsand not have them impactyour life in the real world?Unfortunately, the answeris usually no.

BRIAN DAWECORRECTIONSBEHIND THEFENCE.

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A secure prison meansan orderly one.Meals are served,lights are turned out,

programming is provided,counts are completed, recreationis offered, visits arrive and departand mail is delivered all by a strictand predetermined schedule. As anyseasoned correctional ofcer willattest, any sudden change or disruptionof that schedule can have severe conse-quences. Things the outside world takesfor granted take on an entirely different levelof importance in our nation’s correctional facil-ities. When you work in these conditions youbegin to adopt a rigid mentality to conform to thatenvironment. Little inconveniences in your personal lifelike an appointment being canceled, the car not being repairedon time or the cable guy not showing up can alter your attitude andturn that correctional “hot wire” switch back on.

As a correctional ofcer you come to understand the inmates in your charge aregoing to challenge you and your street smarts. They’re going to test you, especiallyif you’re a “new jack.” They’re going to monitor your actions and reactions, andmay go so far as to stage events just to gauge your response. You quickly learn

how the situation appears to you and what the reality is can be starkly different.You get burnt a few times, the cons get over on you and management comes downon you. So you begin to question, you begin to distrust most of what you hear andeven some of what you see. Slowly you begin to change. I

n only a few years, that mistrustcan seep into your personal life.You start to think everyone is con-

ning you or trying to get over onyou. When you’re at a restaurant, yousit with your back to the wall so youcan survey the room. You count your

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change more intently then before. Thefriendly nod that used to accompanyyour smile when you happen to catcha stranger’s eye is replaced by anemotionless stare. Your world hasbecome corrupted by the world youwork in.

Many of us who find ourselves inthis profession hope to make a posi-tive impact. We hope our efforts will

help public safety and maybe eventurn some of the inmates in ourcharge into productive members of society. But really the change takesplace within us.

Survival If you’re to survive in this world

and if you hope to be able to separateyour real life from the world of cor-rections you must be extra vigilant inchecking your attitude at the timeclock. Remember your family andfriends aren’t trying to con you or getover on you. Life is not a game forthem as it is for many inmates behindthe walls. Your family loves andvalues you. Your friends, althoughthey may think you’re nuts for doingthis job, mainly respect and admireyou for your willingness to do it.Behind the walls, kindness, compas-sion and willingness to compromisecan be seen as weaknesses, but in thereal world those are the very attributesyou hope people will see in you.When you punch that clock, leave theattitude behind the walls; the real

world awaits. You may not be able tochange the nature of corrections, butdon’t let the nature of corrections change you. *

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K en Good, arguably the top authority on low-light and no-light CQBtraining, has turned his attention to the Mega-Light market. Part-nering with the South Korean manufacturer Polarion, Ken hasbrought the LE and military market his own interpretation of Opera-

tion Arc Light — the Helios. Named for the Greek God of the Sun who rodehis chariot from East to West across the sky each day, it’s a handheld search-light putting out 4,000 lumens — that’s not a typo folks. Most of our currentlights run in the 60 to 100 lumen output range with some specialty tacticallights bumping up to 500 lumens.


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closely spaced electrodes sealed inside asmall quartz-glass capsule. They requirean electronic ballast, which suppliesproper voltage and controls current.While consuming less power, theamount of light produced is far greater

than a standard halogen bulb.The technology is similar to uores-cent bulbs. An arc is establishedbetween two electrodes in the gas-lled

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A rc Light was one of the US military’smost aptly named operations of the VietNam War. Your rst hint was the appear-ance of what looked to be a moving con-

stellation ickering in the oppressively humid1965 summer night sky. Almost eight milesabove the earth and cruising at around 540 mph,a formation of silver leviathans modied to carry84 conventional 500-pound bombs in their mas-sive internal bomb bays and 24 iron 750pounders on underwing pylons, steadily madetheir way from Guam to the skies over Viet Nam.If you were close enough to “enjoy” the B-52D’s

show — but not too close mind you, about a milewas okay — you’d feel the breath being suckedout of you followed by over pressure and themost intense white and blue light imaginable. TheSoutheast Asian country’s bottomless dark blacknight turned far brighter than day.

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tube causing a metallic vapor to pro-duce radiant energy. A combination of factors shifts the wavelength of much of this energy to within the visible range,so light is produced without any uores-cent phosphors. The electrodes are atopposite ends of a sealed “arc tube,”only slightly apart and the gas is highlypressurized. This allows the arc to gen-erate extremely high temperatures,causing metallic elements within the gasatmosphere to vaporize and releasehuge amounts of visible energy.

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This is one of the most powerful andstreamlined HID searchlights in itsclass and it’s half the cost of similarproducts currently available.

Canyon, warehouse and large areasearches can be safer and more efcientwith this light. Greater area denial duringtactical operations can be easilyachieved. It also provides more non-observable area behind the light because

you just can’t look in its direction whenenergized. The Helios should be a per-manent resident in everypatrol supervisor’s trunk.

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with bothstand-up tech-niques as well

as being able tosurvive on the ground. Keeping in

mind weapons retention should also be stressed whileengaged in realistic training.

With Mixed Martial Arts being all the rage now, eventhe bad guys are practicing to be more efcient thugs.

Prison is not called “gladiator school” for nothing. TheBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu school where I train has had to put

up a sign that says they reserve the right to refuse ser-vice to anyone. My instructor has a special place in his

heart for cops and he has turned away many a parolee whowants to learn how to “kick ass on the ground.” He follows amoral code to not teach those he knows to be people whoonly want to hurt others. However, there’re many schoolsthat will teach anyone willing to pay.

I will ask the question again only this time with a twist. Areyou in good enough shape to ght for your life for

ve minutes? I train with guys and girls whowork the streets. Every one of them has astory or two about how their training hassaved their ass.

One particular event took a little overfive minutes of active fighting with aparolee who attacked the officer during apedestrian stop. It took the cavalry FIVEminutes to get there. When they did get onscene the Officer had choked the suspectunconscious and got him in handcuffs. TheOfficer told me he wouldn’t have survivedif he hadn’t trained three times per week.He said, “When the guy finally gassed out,I was still good-to-go.”

Times have changed; people today don’thave the same respect for “The Law” like thegood old days. Crooks are better trained andcops are too to some extent.

If you’re honest with yourself and youaren’t ready to rumble. Get off your ass and dosomething about it. Your family and your part-ners are counting on you to be ready when the

bell rings. When you’re in the middle of theght for your life, there’s no timeto get ready. Are you?

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A re you ready to rumble? I’m not talking about two rivalstreet gangs meeting in some vacant lot, I am talkingabout being mentally and physically ready to go handson with some bad guy who’s decided today is not the

day he’s going to jail.

For whatever reason, you’re face-to-face with an individualwho has made the decision to ght you. Not to get away —but to beat your ass — to knock you out, take your weaponand kill you with it! Sounds really harsh and it is. Are youready to ght for your life?

If you think the four hours of defensive tacticstraining you did six months ago is going beenough, I hate to break some bad news — itisn’t. We had a saying back in my Marine Corpsdays that went something like this. “Right nowyour enemy is training so when he meets you,he defeats you — are you ready?”

I’ve run across new cops who’ve never beenin a st ght in their life, never played any typeof contact sports and never had their bell rung.The new breed is cut from a different cloth.

I am not saying every cop should be readyto ght in the UFC but we should be procient

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EXECUTIVE PROTECTIONFOR THE MODERNEMPERORS


PRIVATE SECURITY

Protecting the life of another — in the sense of career,or professional discipline — certainly isn’t new. His-tory is replete with illustrations; some credible, of police or military escorts whose charge included

ensuring no harm came to their principal. During the cen-turies of the Roman Republic, through Caesar and Augustus,continuing with the 10 dictators following them and to theextinction of their empire, Roman leaders were surroundedby the extravagant pomp of their ofces, including a (mostly)ceremonial protective escort.

Consuls and dictators were allowed first 12 then 24 lic-tors, or attendants, carrying bound fasces (a bundle of rodswith an axe secured in the middle) which means that how-ever much they may have been carried symbolically, theywere capable of inflicting a beating or killing. (Note:although not directly connected with the history of digni-tary protection, Mussolini co-opted the idea of fasces assymbols of his untouchable power, giving the world fas-cism in the process.)

In feudal Japan, regional chieftains — shoguns — weresurrounded by legions of escorts, the most important being

yojmbo , literally bodyguards, whose job was to end allphysical threats to their lord swiftly, even at the cost of their own lives.

21st century corporate executive protection agents rarely arecalled upon to lay down their lives for the CEO. Rarer still mustwe wield swords to cut a swath amidst the teeming numbers of restless and combative retirees at the annual health benets fair.There are dangers or, more specically, risks. And, while the

list of differences between executive security in our era andancient Rome is too long to consider, I’d wager one of the keypoints of differentiation is the idea of risk avoidance or deter-rence, (then), versus risk management (now).

ED PALUMBO

Y our average, hard-working, under-paid lictor oryojimbo probably didn’t benet from a compre-hensive risk assessment before creating a securityprole for the lord or consul as he mounted the

spring campaign to destroy neighboring China or Gaul.The more barbaric aspects of traditional EP details havebeen smoothed over and replaced by more progressiveand analytical approaches.

Some denitions are in order. The rst term — risk —is one of the most misapplied words in the lexicon of pri-vate security. Here’s just one view of this modernapproach (not coincidentally it’s how we fashion ourleadership protection programs at Hewlett-Packard).

Risk Risk is a yield of assets, threats, vulnerabilities and thepotential for an unwanted event to occur; e.g. loss of pro-prietary information, cash assets; damage to brand reputa-tion; someone gaining unauthorized access to our net-work. Risk is a function of the likelihood of the unwanted event occurring and its consequences. The higher theprobability and the greater the consequences, the greaterthe risk for the entity protected — whether company orindividual. The likelihood of occurrence depends uponthreat and vulnerability.

Threat Threat is the capability and intention of an adversary

to undertake harmful actions. The adversary’s intentionto exploit his capability may be encouraged by targetvulnerability or discouraged by the relative strength of countermeasures. Viewed from a law enforcement per-

Executive protection in the modern era is amisunderstood facet of private security,not least because of miscasting and poorcoverage by the media, which inevitably

has led to popular misconceptions about suchprofessional services.

We can excuse the media on this point, for now,as it is a waste of time to calculate the number andscope of their inaccuracies depicting law enforce-ment, security and intelligence — but I’m not sosure we can easily excuse some of our own number— who should know better. In fairness though, theprofession of personal protection has beenshrouded in such lore and mystery you can’t befaulted for lacking clear appreciation.

NOTHING NEW BARBARIANS AND PH

ISSUES AND TRENDS ON THE PRIVATE SIDE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.

You can pretty much pick out a “poser” a mile away. You’ll be in the middle of Cleveland and it’s

the guy who looks like he’s in the middle of Kabul, Afghanistan. Atrue pro will blend with the area

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spective, we would say the actor doesor does not have the present ability toaccomplish his intentions based onrelative vulnerability.

Vulnerability Vulnerability is any weakness in anasset or countermeasure that can beexploited by an adversary or com-petitor to cause harm (to a program,building, human being). Implementingappropriate security countermeasures,based on the risk assessment, canreduce the level of vulnerability, hencelevel of risk. And if the asset in ques-tion is a senior executive, their protec-tion is crucial to the successful conti-nuity of business operations.

Leadership Protection Leadership protection services arebased on this model. The central pointupon which all assessment and plan-ning nally rest is this: Who gets pro-tected? In the corporate culture, criti-cality of the asset is paramount whetherhuman or data, physical space or cor-porate aircraft, R&D project or thechairman’s summer home. We applyanother test — based on a consequenceanalysis — which tells us if the CEO iscritically harmed, whether by fallingdown a ight of stairs at an airport orrobbed at gunpoint in Venezuela, thecompany would suffer immediate andpossibly permanent damage.

We build a protective programfrom the center out, represented byconcentric circles of decreased inten-sity as they enlarge and spread awayfrom the core — the body of theperson protected. Our team in partic-ular is comprised of professionals withdiverse, but aligned backgrounds —municipal law enforcement, US StateDepartment Foreign Security, USDepartment of Defense Counter-Intel-ligence, US Army Special Forces andUK Special Forces.I can’t remember the last time Inoticed deployment of bundled fascesby an executive protection agent, butit would be equally difcult to recog-nize a well-trained, composed, profes-sional 21st century protector whowasn’t the product of a modern,highly regarded military or policetraining and education foundation.

Apparently, we’ve traded the axeand rods for a suit and tie and theoccasional, concealed semi-automaticweapon. For purposes of diligently,

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SO YouThink THE

PEOPLE OnYOUR BEATAre Clueless?

Cops in Phoenix are shakin’ their headsand wondering if the local water is lacedwith Essence of Dumbass. After a 14-year old kidstole a car in a presumably “average intelligence

neighborhood,” they found at least 15 people had unwittinglytried to help him get away.

The boy was having trouble with the car’s manual transmis-sion, and kept killing the engine with sloppy clutch work.According to witnesses, he wasn’t even handling the steeringvery well, weaving all over as he alternately ran the revs to red-line, popped the clutch and jolted to a halt. More than a dozenhelpful people offered him assistance, repeatedly pushing thecar, showing him how to match engine speed to clutch travel,select the right gear and so on. One local lady nally got in thepassenger’s seat with the kid and acted as his driving instructor.

Finally, somebody with an IQ over nine noted this morassof morons and called the cops.

“It’s incredible an entire neighborhood would participatein this comedy of errors,” said Sgt. Dave Norton. “Nobodyasked why a 14-year old is out with a vehicle and doesn’tknow how to drive it. His looks and size should have made

bells and whistles go off in people’s minds." The boy wasturned over to his grandma with a juvenile citation.

Robert truly couldn’t gure it out when of-cers showed up at his door soon after the bur-

glary was discovered. How could they haveknown? He took the cameras! Yeah, but he

hadn’t taken the video recorder or thetape which had captured his every

twitch and chuckle, close-up and per-sonal. Nevada State Prison may offera course like, “Understanding BasicTechnology 101.”

Just imagine being the ofcerwho patiently explained to him,“Remember those fat cords you

unscrewed from the backs of thecameras? See, the pictures kindasqueeze down real skinny, andthey ow like water throughthose tubes, back to this metalbox-thingie, and …”

Robert Lyn White had a plan, but not a clue,when he burglarized the SouthsideLaundry in Elko, Nevada. The well-known 52-year old local resident

knew the place was monitored by sixsurveillance video cameras, so afterhe bagged up the rest of his loot,he went from one camera to thenext, carefully disconnecting andremoving them. He guredsince he was stealing the cam-eras, it didn’t matter if hestared right into ‘em while he

was loosening bolts and nuts,doing a little laughing andmugging for the cameras ashe worked. He thought hewas getting away clean –pardon the pun, okay?


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neatly dressed older man approachedhim and said, “It’s your day to be a

hero,” and handed him 80 bucks. ThenTimothy J. Bowers went on to explain he had

just robbed the bank, that was the loot, and if theguard didn’t mind, he would just sit down and relaxuntil the cops arrived.

Sixty-two year old Bowers told ofcers he’d beenworking at a decent job since 2003, when the companyhe worked for went out of business. All he could ndwere minimum wage “kids’ jobs,” which he couldn’t liveon, and, he said, “There is age discrimination out there.”

Bowers gured he needed a roof overhead andmeals for about three years until he could start drawinghis Social Security benets. Then he researched prisonfacilities and typical sentences for bank robberyinvolving no weapons or injuries to victims. Then hewent and robbed the bank, using a carefully wordeddemand note; just enough to establish a robbery, andnot enough to threaten anyone’s life.

Bowers told Judge Angela White a three-year sen-tence “would suit me,” and she obliged. He’ll be outalmost precisely in time to start drawing his monthly

benets. Hey; he robbed a bank, but you gottaadmire a man with a plan, right?

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Wizard is, the Chief probably thinkshe’s just another schmuck.

To distinguish themselves fromtheir competitors, many of thesetrainers have developed their own“force matrixes,” ladders, pyramidsand pie-charts, with their own pro-prietary terms and language,applying to “when to use whatlevel of force.” All of this is oftendelivered in one high-intensityannual in-service training session.To make matters worse, manyagencies play “musical martialartists” from year to year, pilingconfusion on complexity.

Ofcers do learn some valuabletactics, and when to use themappropriately. But then the message

is often massaged . By that I meanthrough attitude, demeanor, off-the-cuff statements and ill-advised com-mendations and reprimands, ofcersare left with the impression that, toput it simply, they have to get hitrst to hit back; that they mustalways use less force than is usedagainst them.

After one of my ofcers got hisbutt kicked, I asked him why hedidn’t use his baton. He responded,“Because you can only use it onguys armed with something, right?”He didn’t get that message intraining, but after being hammeredwith high-ranking ofcers’ warningsabout “going crazy with a stick onunarmed suspects,” that was themassage he was left with. Anothertime, an ofcer was praised andcommended for dancing around aknife-wielding suspect for severalminutes and nally kicking theblade out of his hand. Some chiefsloved it. I told him he should havebeen suspended. The wrong mes-sage was sent to many, many cops.

Sergeant As Interpreter This is where you come in. Makesure your ofcers have and practicea simple suite of pain-complianceholds, blows, blocks and kicks astaught in training — and when theyshould use them. The emphasisshould be on fast, complete controlof subjects, before anyone becomesneedlessly hurt. Lay off the loopylanguage and strip the sophistica-tion, bearing down on the basics.And always, always assure themyou’re available to interpret con-

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CLINT SMITHREALITY CHECKI ICOUNSEL, WISDOM, GUIDANCE AND TEACHING.

OVERHANGS

T hese horizontal corners need tobe addressed. Start by stagingyourself on the highest step you

can, without breaking the angleof the corner created by the overhang. Becareful not to expose your muzzle,elbows, legs, feet and your head. Roll out

THE BASICS

Keep your muzzle between you and what most threatens you. Don’tproject yourself ahead of your eyes by leading with the muzzle, oryour ability to see. If the stairwell has a landing, clear the landingarea as you get closer by moving the muzzle down — but keeping it

between you and the tight corner. Should a short-range ght begin, having themuzzle down is a better place to start, because your arms are stronger in an“up” motion than in a “downward.”

I’m not a proponent of the “quick peek.” I gure I paid for the ground onceby sticking even a small part of my head around the corner, so I’m going tokeep that ground. I break the plane with the idea the threat will be there andI’ll stay and ght. Don’t misconstrue this to mean stay there and exchange reif you nd an AK pointed at you. If you nd a gun pointed at you, roll backusing what little cover the wall will provide.

In my opinion the “quick peek” programs a process I compare to a yo-yo. If your head is geared to apply a peek, then you peek and nd something youwithdraw. You simply get to clear it again with everyone knowing you arethere — and coming. In training, most people will peek, nd what they’relooking for, withdraw and then almost invariably will go right back to thesame place and peek again — not good.

Even with its shortcomings the “peek” could still be a viable tool if you don’tpeek from the same place two or three times. If you insist on doing it, roll in withthe intent there will be a threat and you’ll defend yourself — and you will win. If the corner is clear, then do it on the next corner, and the next, and the next — forthe rest of your career.

think about the rest of the stairwell asyou move. When you roll to clear theclose overhang immediately in front of

you, your head can break the plane of another angle, like at the top of alanding having stairs back up and overyour head.

to get your rst look, keeping the muzzlebetween yourself and what you’re aboutto look at. This can be awkward because

you’re looking “over” your head. Getover it because it’s probably gonna getworse before it gets better.

Be very careful when doing this and

Stairs:Life’s Ups and Downs

S tairways usually bring to bear two conclusions.“I haven’t been killed on a stairway yet” or “Ohcrap — a stairwell.” In reality, think of a stair-well as simply a hallway you might have to

move through. They constrict movement and do haveunsure footing. The only real quirk of stairwells are thefunny corners. Those corners come in the form of over-hangs, which are really simply horizontal corners .

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S everal problemsexist here andthey’re all dan-gerous. Depending

on their design, as youdescend the stairs yourfeet legs and groin canprovide good targets. If thestairway allows, lie flat,using the corner of thewall or doorframe forcover and look as far intothe back of the room aspossible. Starting down,you can slide the edge of your foot down the face of the stairs to see if the areais open. This tells you sev-eral things: the type of stair, and the possibility of an open stairwell under-neath. Keeping the muzzlebetween yourself and thethreat, move slowly down.

Your technique will be

based on the type of stair-well and the room it leads into. Going down stairs is a bad business. Be preparedto go back up — which will not be pleasant under re. I think the “down” istougher than the “up” — although neither are all that great.

FOOD FORTHOUGHT

B e careful about stufng a lotof people into a stairwell.One is good, two is betterand three starts the crowd-

mode. Consider where everyone willgo should a gunght start. If some-body’s body is in that stairwell theyhad damn well better be coveringpart of what you are clearing.I refuse to be intimidated by astairwell. That said, there could be one— or one hundred — techniques toclear a stairwell and they will all suckwhen there’s someone in there with agun. I know I can be shot — because Ihave been. I don’t plan on helpingmyself to get shot again by providingmy opponent with anymore of a “me-target” than necessary.

I also know I’m going to diesomeday, but it will not be today, andit will not be for the lack of shooting

back. The bottom line? Stairs maynot require audacity — as much as atrained and thoughtfuldetermination.

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Here’s where you feel the depthof the step with your foot toconrm your footing.Remember to keep your back

to a solid wall if possible, rememberingnot to drag yourself as you start up. If you do this you will be supplyingsound as a target indicator to your pos-sibly, very savvy opponent.

Also, as you go up, consider the topof your head can be exposed beforeyour eyes can see the floor and lengthof the room at the top of the stairs. If the threat simply lies on the floor inthe back of the room they’ll see your

head before you can see them. As youclimb, consider the floor of the roomat the top of the stairs as a plane. Asyou approach that line you can squatlower so you don’t lead with yourhead as you continue.

Then, stage yourself a step or twobelow where your head will clear. Withyour weapon at the ready, stand upenough from the squat to clear the oorabove. Simply climbing the stairs willprovide a jack-in-the-box movementand probably not come to any good.

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PERRY W. HORNBARGERRESERVES

JELLY BELLIES

DEDICATION AND PROFESSIONALISM THAT GOES BEYOND PAY.

P hysical tness is another area where professionalismshows. I’ll be rst to admit I’m not Charles Atlas andcould certainly stand to lose a few pounds.(Remember, I like doughnuts) But I’ve seen many

who are much worse. Getting into a foot pursuit when you’recarrying 20 extra pounds can be very humbling — especiallywhen you lose (been there, done that). But, what if you catch

him? Would you be able to subdue him? Those extra poundscould help in some cases but most likely would be a hindrance.

Do you really think he’d care that you were a volunteer? Yourepresent authority and all he cares about is preventing anunplanned jail tour and probably will do anything to avoid it;including wrestling your gun away and killing you.

The point in all this is simply a reminder that being aprofessional is a full time job. Your uniform, your appear-ance, your actions, your training and your demeanor all

reflect your professionalism. Do your part tohelp all of us? Be a Professional. *Perry W. Hornbarger is the Unit Commander of the Chesterfield, Va. Auxiliary Police Unit. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Are You A Professional?

IT’S MORE THAN JUST PIN

Professionalism starts at thetop. The unit commander,Captain or whatever you callyour leadership must do the

same. I learned years ago in theUSAF Combat Arms InstructorSchool in order to be effective, theinstructor has to look sharper thanthe students. The same goes forleaders. They’re the ones who mustset the example for others to follow.Professional leaders breed profes-sionalism in the unit and as Reserve

You wear a uniform, carry a badge,and were trained in an Academy,but I have to ask. Are you truly aprofessional? Some would say

being paid for your services makes youa professional. I won’t bore you withthe “ofcial” denition; you can read adictionary as well as I can. But, whatkind of an image do you project? Isyour uniform clean and pressed, areyour shoes clean and shined? Is yourhair length and facial hair within

department regulations? The over-weight cop portrayed on TV with anunkempt appearance, buttons on hisshirt screaming for mercy and doughnutpowder on his tie (I must admit that Itoo, like doughnuts) may be a profes-sional in some sense but what kind of image does he truly project? Is this theguy you want representing your depart-ment to the public? Whether you realizeit or not, you are your department andwith that in mind, we need to havepride in our unit, pride in ourselves andpride in the job we do.

Ofcers we must look as professional— if not better — than those ofcerswho do it for a living.

Being professional is not just main-taining your appearance but it includesthings like maintaining your in-servicetraining, following department policiesand procedures and doing your job theway you were trained. The reserveofcer who only “meets the minimumrequirements” is a D- ofcer. A D- maybe a passing grade — but just barely.I’m sure you raised your right hand andtook an oath of ofce when you wentthrough the Academy. You didn’t gothrough the Academy to be a D- cop. If

Top Down your department standards are low,then take it upon yourself to raisethem. A little peer pressure or good-natured ribbing sometimes can workbetter than the chain-of-command ordisciplinary action to correct aproblem. If a guy sees he’s the onlyone in the unit who's in constantneed of a haircut or his Sam Brownebelt is actually brown and not black,he may just “take a hint” and getwith the program. Looking good inuniform as well as being well trainedcommands respect from your peers.You may actually end up being theirmentor without realizing it.

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There was a time when the citizenryactual ly respected the law, and forcops, verbal compliance was prettymuch the order of the day. Sadly,society and attitudes have changed —some for the better but many, espe-

cial ly for law enforcement , for the worse.When I grew up in South Africa, formerly a

c o lony o f t he Br i t i sh E mpi r e , p o l i c eweren’t even armed with handguns. The

common weapon was a long woodenbaton, a pair of handcuffs coupled

with a really sour disposition (PCfor shitty attitude) and a propen-

si ty to wield the baton at theleas t s ign of “ l ip” or res i s -

tance. It was no wonder theyconsistently received com-

pliance from the locals byusing verbal commands.

The options regardingforce available to of-

cers are regulated farmore stringently

due to the currentonslaught of polit-ical correctness

and attendant law-suits. This “escalation”

criterion in the use of force or deadly force has

given rise to some inter-esting new technology in the

“Less Than Lethal/Non Lethal” market. Holdingthe current top slot is incapacitation technology and

the leader is unquestionably TASER, a name now syn-onymous with this type of equipment.

My rst inclination when starting on this article was

to get into the technical nuts and bolts of how it worksand all the attendant techno-babble, but this company

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and its products are really interestingfrom a less technical perspective.Besides, I don’t really know my Ampsfrom my Volt-hole so, if you’re aTechie, and want to know all about theWatta-Volta-Amp thingies, TASER hasa great Web site that’s worth visiting.

TASER is an acronym for Thomas ASwift’s Electronic Rie. Tom Swift, thebrilliant young adventurer/inventor andstar of this juvenile book series, was ahero of Jack Cover the inventor of theoriginal TASER. Cover has sinceretired and the Smith brothers, Rickand Tom, now run the company.

TASER’s ofces and manufacturingfacility are located in Scottsdale, Ari-zona, in a new and very space-agelooking building. It’s a stunning eyecatcher and security is right out of theStarship Enterprise, with stainless steeldoors, video security, retinal scannerseverywhere, TV screens all over theplace and ante rooms for isolation. One

really neat feature is a frosted oor toceiling wall of glass. With the click of abutton, the glass becomes totally clearand you’re looking into the productionfacility — awesome. I suspect Kirk,Scott and crew are on the facility devel-opment panel.

Not So Techie Stuff So what does it do and simply how

does it work? The mission of theTASER is “to incapacitate a subject forat least five seconds thereby allowingyou to take control of a potentially dan-gerous situation.”

Essentially the unit looks like aplastic gun. At the front (muzzle end)is a detachable, replaceable cartridgehousing two probes attached to long,thin copper wire coils. The probes arepropelled by compressed air, similar toan air rifle. They embed into the badguy’s skin. The original system waspowered with propellant and was atone time designated a firearm byBATFE. The wires uncoil with deploy-ment of the probes, maintaining anelectronic connection with the gun. Ahigh voltage charge passes through thecopper wires and imbedded probes intothe target causing underlying muscle tocontract. In most cases this charge ishigh enough and of long enough dura-tion to incapacitate the subject for anappropriate period allowing the ofcerto secure the situation.

When the electric charge ceases,the resul t ing str ing of languagespouting forth from the recipient of this “electro-therapy” regarding theofficer’s heritage, relationship withhis mother and deviant homosexualbehavior is pretty standard. (Never

have figured out what sucking on acork has to do with anything, must bean American thing.)

Seriously though, the efficiency of this technology is borne out by thenumbers. According to TASER,Phoenix PD had, as of this writing, a 54percent drop in Use of Force/OfficerInvolved Shootings. Think of howmuch that would have cost in legalfees, time filling out reports, afteraction debriefs, hearings and Use of Force Boards to name a few.

Impressive Numbers Other statistics for this new tech-nology are pretty impressive too. With

almost 10,000 agencies using 225,000units in the field some reasonablyaccurate data is coming out. The suc-cessful “stop-rate” is currently 95 per-cent with no further level of forcerequired. Considering the fact therehave been 127,000 deployments in thefield under actual conditions andanother 210,000 “voluntary” deploy-ments, the stop-rate figures are quitestaggering. The system works most of the time; some subjects on drugs,

drunk, tough or just plain s tupidrequire a second “ride.” Provided thewires have not been broken or the

probes dislodged, the officer has theability to “recharge” the subject mul-tiple times if necessary until compli-ance or physical control is achieved.When the situation is under control,the fired cartridge is replaced virtu-ally in seconds and the unit is readyto go back to work.

The gun looking portion of thesystem houses the electronics and thebattery power module. The battery islocated in the “magazine well” por-tion of the unit and is really morethan just a battery. It also stores thewarranty information and anyupgrades if applicable, which areuploaded when installing a new orreplacement battery — how cool isthat? When TASER claims theirproduct is state-of-the-art they’re notkidding. Like any battery powereddevice it needs to be recharged regu-larly and the battery replaced after therequisite number of recharges.

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FORCE TRAININGfor law enforcement as a profession.”It’s a subject that is close to my heartfor a variety of reasons.

“Well then, Mr. Federal SpecialAgent wise-ass, write about it.”

While the deadly force training wecurrently provide cops in this country isbased on a system that has sufced fora lot of years, it could be so muchbetter. And since we can do better whenit comes to the topic of teaching cops to

take the life of another person, itbecomes a moral imperative that wemust do so.

Power & Responsibility The power to kill or seriously injure

people, immediately and without theluxury of sober review, is without adoubt the single greatest authoritygiven to cops. Not to overstate theobvious, but it really is an awesome

FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

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The rst time I spoke with ouresteemed editor he asked me adeceptively simple question: If I were to write for this maga-zine, what would I write

about? My response of “Um, hell, I don’tknow, what do you want me to writeabout?” didn’t quite meet his standards.

“What are you passionate about?” washis follow-up, and it was an effective one.

“The state of deadly force training

Changing how cops are trained to kill is a muchlarger order than it may appear at first blush.“ ”

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responsibility. We accept cops have thatauthority under the right circumstancesand most people, regardless of theirpolitical stripe, don’t argue the point.Yet, we don’t do the best job possibleof training and preparing our cops forthat eventuality.

If you don’t believe the vast majorityof our training in this area is not as goodas it should be, or even as good as it canbe, just ask the people charged withdoing the training. Almost across theboard when I talk to fellow trainers theysay the same thing, or a variationthereof: “We do a good job given therestrictions we have to work within.”

We teach just about every othermajor aspect of police work in an inte-grated, coherent fashion based on theexperience of the generations of copsthat came before us and empirical datafrom research. Pick a topic: accidentinvestigations, homicide investigations,trafc stops, domestic violence interven-tion, report writing, interviewing andinterrogation. The list goes on and on.

Yet when it comes to the single actthat most defines our profession, the

thing that has the greatest potentialimpact on the cop, the subject and thecommunity he serves, we fumble theball. Nowhere, that I am aware of, is

“Deadly Force Application” taught as ablock of instruction at either theAcademy or in-service level.

Instead, we’re given piecemealtraining that “will suffice” with somerelevant areas covered and someomitted — we know better.

Lasting Consequences We know about the difculties

involved in shooting (let’s face it,there are a million ways to legallyadminister deadly force when it iscalled for, but for most of us itusually involves a shooting) aperson who not only is trying toavoid it, but simultaneously tryingtheir damnedest to kill us. Yet inmost cases we continue to trainand qualify on square rangesunder completely canned andcontrolled circumstances.

We know that once we pre-vail in a gunght, there’s goingto be a criminal investigation,perhaps a grand jury investiga-tion, and possibly an indict-ment. We know there very

likely will be a lawsuit namingnot only our agency, but prob-ably us personally as well. We

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GUNSITEWho Trained Your Trainer?

Sometimes we’re ourown worst enemies.Granted, we all haveegos and from timeto time we need tofeed them. But when

you’re a rearms trainer andthe lives and well-being of your ofcers depends on youtraining them properly,

there’s no room for ego inthat equation. If you musthave a certain technique

named after you, youcan’t live without con-stant stroking, youneed to hear howbitchen you are andwhat an expert you arein your field, go teachreport writing, neigh-borhood policing ormaybe Spanish. Stay outof the firearms trainingbusiness — there’s noroom for you anymore.

NIH

The Not-Invented-Here syndrome seemsmore prevalent in the

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There are a lot of goodinstructor-training providersout there and we’re going totalk about as many as we canin future “Who Trained YourTrainer” articles. But for thefirst in this series you’ll hearabout the Granddaddy of them all; Gunsite Academyin Paulden, Arizona.

Gunsite Academy Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper intended Gun-

site to spread the Modern Technique of

the Pistol he’d developed during yearsof study. Col. Cooper built the facility,

just west of Paulden, Ariz ., about 20miles north of Prescott. Jeff passedaway September 25, 2006 at the age

of 86. His wife Janelle lives on the Gun-site ranch and oversees Jeff’s libraryand museum.

Gunsite’s operation covers 2,000acres, with modern facilities, large

classrooms, a fullystocked Pro Shopand a full-servicegunsmith operationfor clients. There’s amodern new camp-ground with pavilion,laundry facilities, hotshowers and hookupsfor travel trailers andrecreational vehicles.Lodging and goodrestaurants are withineasy driving distance.

A variety of rangesare available for classofferings, includingoutdoor and indoorsimulators, a 400-yardrif le range, anunknown distancerange, and various

steel ranges for spe-cific purposes. Most of

Well-groomed ranges, safe but challenging 360-degree

outdoor scenarios and ter- ric indoor live-re facilities

are hallmarks of Gunsite.Most Law Enforcement

Rangemasters would give their right arm for a training

facility of this caliber.


Ed (right) relates a story to his brother Giles (left),“The tall Aussie,you know, Sergeant Martin, pointed in on the target; it was only this far away and the bastard missed all ve rounds. The damn target’s two feet by three feet and he still missed it.How could he do that?”

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Small high-intensity handheld lights haven’t onlyspawned a whole new industry, but have given uscops relief from carrying those heavy, large, anemic-output “police” flashlights, a much longer range of dark space that we can now reach into and a whole

new subject control tool. Almost any small high-intensitylight you buy today will work reasonably well and will cer-tainly do so if your comparison point is the Kel-Lights of yore. But there are real differences in today’s products —some matter while some don’t.

Size Matters? Lights naturally differ in size.

The original SureFire 6P isabout 1" in diameter andabout 5" long, is run bytwo CR123 lithium 3-volt batteries,and has moreor less set thestandard by

which we calibrate the size and output of other lights. Theoriginal 6P size is very convenient to carry and fits mosthands extremely well, but you can get more light out of athree-CR123 batteries light if you’re willing to go to about7" in length. Both the 5" and 7" lights are practical for uni-formed carry, while a light much longer than 7" seems tocross an ergonomic boundary and be less convenient tocarry. In any case, you will seldom need more light than a

three CR123 battery light can put out (which is usu-ally about 100 lumens).

Thick Or Thin? Thinner lights at .75" in diameter won’t be any

more convenient to carry on a duty belt, but aremore convenient for plain-

clothes carry. What you sac-rice with a thinner light isa tight beam focus, sincethe ability of a lens totightly focus a light sourcedecreases with the lensdiameter (and lens length

too.) However, thisdifference in focus

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but you’ll never recognize it when I getthrough with it.” He was right.

Tussey Custom Terry should be considered a jeweler.

Not the kind making rings and bobbles,but the Swiss watchmaker kind. His cre-ations aren’t just eye-candy — theywork, and they’re reliable. Theeveryday working cop needs a gunthat’ll go bang every time he pushes thego button. There are a lot of guns outthere beautifully finished and finelyaccessorized, but if they don’t go bangeach and every time you pull the triggeryou might as well put a gold chainthrough them and wear one as a neck-lace to the next squad barbeque. Nowthat’d be a fashion statement. Terry’smagic is combining the two disciplinesand coming up with something artfully

beautiful you can trust with your life.His modications to my P-14 were allwith reliability in mind — cop necessary

reliability. First the stock, curved Pararear sight and front sight came off to bereplaced with Novak adjustables, for aperfect zero no matter what load you’reshooting. He added a match bushing pro-viding consistent 1" groups at 25 yards.The Para shot very well before, but nowit’s a laser beam. Terry also tted an EdBrown steel mag catch, grip safety andmainspring housing. He replaced thefiring pin stop and the trigger Terryselected is from King’s Gun Works,especially made for the wide-bodied Paraframe. He tuned it to a crisp 4 lbs. break— just right for a duty 1911.

Make I t Go Bang The reliability package is critical on

an LE gun, especially a 1911. Terry paysspecial attention to chamber specs, thelink t and the cut, angle and surface t

of the full-length guide rod. He polishesthe ramp, barrel throat and the bolt face.He also checks and adjusts the extractor.

Terry workswith a lot of cops

to get theirsidearms “up-to-

snuff.” He has a true understanding of what happens when you carry a gunin your Sam Browne every day. It’sevident when he makes suggestionsfor 1911 carriers. I can’t count howmany wide-eyed stares came my waydue to a cocked-and-locked 1911 inmy duty holster. Trying to explain toa California-raised and insulated,Oprah and Rosie watching soccermom it’s the safest way to carry a1911 pistol is like trying to explainQuantum Entanglement Theory to aclass of second graders. Actually thesecond graders are easier.

Safety Fast Shooting

In order to save me from furtherfrustration with the ill-informed,

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the switch in a tactical situation. Mosttail-cap switches used to be momen-tary-on switches only; constant-onwas accomplished by twisting thetail-cap. However, many new tail-capoperated models are using two-stageswitches; you depress them partwayfor momentary-on, and all the wayfor constant-on. I really don’t likethis new setup, since under stress youdo everything more forcefully thannormal, and you are thus very likelyto make the l ight go constant-onwhen you only wanted a short blip of light in the middle of a fight or asearch. This can lead to a very dan-gerous situation.

Some manufacturers are trying tomitigate this danger from their two-stagetail-cap switches by housing the switchin a hollow, leaving the partway depres-sion of it with your thumb easy, but

requiring extra effort to fully depress theswitch. You’ll have to experiment to seeif a particular model set up like thisworks for you — and if you trust it!

Waterproong Almost all good quality lights are

water-resistant to deeper than you will gowithout special equipment. This is usu-ally accomplished with rubber O-ringson the threads of the head and tail-capand a seal around the window. Water-resistance is a necessity, since your light— like you — will get wet in this job.

Overall Quality There are two kinds of quality that

affect us. The first is quality relatedto integrity or how likely the unit isto break or fail. This type of quality isobviously vital. The second type of quality relates to the technical “good-ness” of the components or l ightbeam. How vital to you is it that thebulb filament or LED is of the utmostquality, and thus pumps out a fewmore lumens or lasts a bit longer? Orhow important to you is a perfectlydistributed light beam with no irregu-larities? This second type of quality issubjective and each of us will havedifferent needs.

Recommendations Start by deciding on a size that’s

good for you (length and diameter). Alight that’s uncomfortable to carrywon’t be carried. A tail-cap operatedmomentary-on switch is a must.

Get a light with at least 60 lumensof output. More if you want to seedetails across more than two residentialyards (or about 200 feet) on a regular

basis. In some cases you can get morelight from the same model by going toa higher-output lamp assembly, whichare sometimes available, but at the cost


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Don’t worry too much about incan-descent vs. LED unless you have atendency to drop stuff a lot. For somereason, LED lights often come with awider focused beam than incandes-cents. This isn’t usually an issue andcan sometimes be an advantage. Youwill, however, get a longer run-timefrom LEDs given the same number of batteries and lumens.

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Interestingly the camera has metwith opposition from some street copsbut many embrace this new tech-

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Owen “Buzz” Mills owns Gunsiteand over the past few years he’s putaround $4 million into refurbishing thefacility and building new ranges. I hadpreviously been to Gunsite and the dif-ference is astounding.

Ed Head is the Operations Manager.In his previous career, Ed was with theBorder Patrol in the San Diego area. Hewas a longtime Gunsite instructor sohis transition to Ops Manager was anobvious good fit. He brings an out-standing knowledge of the civilian side

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Gunsite has the ability to customdesign a course just for you and yourinstructors. I was fortunate prior toretiring to take my entire range staff along with two friends and firearmsinstructors from Queensland, Australia,to Gunsite for one of those customdesigned Instructor’s Workshops.

Ops Manager Ed Head, knowinghow cops can be — especially full-time firearms instructors, felt it pru-dent to put two of his strongest LEexperienced staff with my group —good move. Ed and Giles Stock areGunsite’s longest tenured instructors.Ed recently ret ired from ArizonaDepartment of Public Safety andGiles is retired from Phoenix PD.When they walk on a Gunsite rangethere’s no question who’s in charge —they own the ground.

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with a portion of their beginner’s classand interlaced Gunsite’s philosophyinto the instruction. I suspected and itwas later confirmed this exercise wasto determine the level of expertise of the students — a good technique whenstarting with students unknown to you.After all there are quite a few LEinstructors who only attended theirstate mandated range officer courseand many of those concentrate just ongeneral techniques of teaching.

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We know post-traumatic stress is avery real and dangerous threat toanyone forced to kill on the job. Wedon’t teach that our family, friends,and community will probably treat usdifferently after we’ve killed anotherperson. Yet we do almost nothing topsychologically “armor” ourselvesagainst this eventuality. We don’ttrain that this is acceptable, indeedmoral ly required, for us to do sounder the correct circumstances. Wedon’t teach how to fight these battlesbased on our collective past experi-ence as a profession.

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The choice to become a cop is afriggin’ serious one. It should there-fore be made from a well-informedposition. If arming candidates withthis information runs the risk thatsome otherwise very capable, nicepeople will opt out of this profession— that’s their right. We all knowpeople who are great folks but haveabsolutely no business being cops.Better they get out in the Academyrather than having them or someonedepending on them get hurt, killed orpsychologically maimed in a roadsideditch because they’re not completelyprepared to defend themselves withdeadly force.

It’s incumbent on all of us in lawenforcement, especially those in thetraining realm, to provide officerswith the information they need tomake the decision to be a cop and tosurvive as long as they stay with it.It’s ridiculous to place the responsi-bility of taking a life on someone,knowing critical information has beenomitted from their entire decisionmaking process.

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As a result of our current approach,each ofcer forced to use deadly forcein the course of their job is doomed togo through the same process so many of their brothers and sisters before them

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Bomb Squad You may have noticed American COP doesn’t do book reviews. After a day

of reading and editing articles the last thing on my mind when I get home ismore reading. I get at least one a sent to me each week.

The 450 page Art Of Handcufng missive or Law Enforcement Worker’s Com- pensation Mitigation Strategies for Dummies just don’t hold much appeal to me.So when Richard Esposito e-mailed about his new book I shunned it just like theothers. I wrote back, even though Bomb Squad operations holds a special place inmy heart from being trained and having served as a bomb-tech myself, we don’tdo reviews. He sent it anyway — with a nice personal note. I don’t know what gotinto me — I started reading it. Then, damn him, I couldn’t put it down.

Richard Esposito and Ted Gerstein spent an entire year with NYPD’s BombSquad. They crafted a book that’s really worth reading about a handful of copsdoing one of law enforcement’s most hazardous jobs in a way, which gives youalmost a voyeuristic insight of the people involved.

I’ve read a lot of “cop” books over the years. Most were good representa-tions although they reminded me of watching a black and white rerun of Outer Limits or, in some cases, The Lucy Show . This book brings the readerthe subject not only in living color butit’s in High Definition.

The writers’ access to the unit, thetraining and their operations isunprecedented. They handle it in ariveting style lacking the hyperbole

many others use as a ruse to disguise a lack of writing skill. And they don’treveal operational and confidential procedures — another testament to theirprofessionalism. You’ve got to get this book.

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Eagle Grips I used a Beretta 92FS as my duty gun for years. At the time, I was working the

beach area and due to the salt spray and daily sand blasting I had it hard chromedfor protection. I have to admit; it was a damn pretty gun. The one thing that reallybugged me about it was you just couldn’t nd a set of decent looking wood grips.Boring black plastic was all I was left with.

Now Eagle Grips of Carol Stream, Ill., is offering fantastic rosewood grips forthe 92 series pistol. It’s about 10 years too late for me but maybe not for you. Thegrips are available smooth or hand checkered. They’re slightly relieved at the for-ward end of the grip and ride a little smaller on the frontstrap. That makes for amuch better feel for those of us without gorilla-size mitts.

My 92FS now dutifully guards the inside of my gun safe, but at leastit’s doing it in style with a new set of Eagle’s rosewood grips.For More Info: www.eaglegrips.com

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I t’s time to adopt a no Toro Cacastance on illegal immigration. Ipropose the following be imme-

diately adopted.There will be no special bilingual

programs in the schools.There will be no special ballots for

elections and all government businesswill be conducted in our language.

Foreigners will not have the rightto vote — no matter how longthey’ve been here.

Foreigners will never be able tohold political ofce.

Foreigners will not be a burden tothe taxpayers, therefore, they are not eligible for welfare, food stamps,health care or any other governmentassistance programs.

Foreigners may invest in this country,but it must be an amount equal to40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

If foreigners wish to buy land theiroptions will be restricted. They will not be allowed to own waterfront property asit’s reserved for naturally born citizens.

Foreigners may not protest againstour government. There will be no

demonstrations, no waving a foreignflag, no political organizing and no“bad-mouthing” our president or hispolicies. Violations will result inimmediate deportation with no appeal.

If a foreigner illegally enters thecountry they will be hunted down andsent directly to jail.

I know these new rules soundharsh but they happen to be the immi-gration laws of Mexico and if we’regoing to be good neighbors and haveconsistent policies we need to moreclosely align our immigration laws.

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A lthough this is a situation which could be prominentlyfeatured in the Toro Caca section of Insider Rumina-tions , I nd it has gone even further and reached alevel even a whole prairie full of Brahma bulls onExlax couldn’t compare to. I regret being forced into

the position of issuing of an American COP Magazine Fatwa.That’s right, I hereby call for a law enforcement Jihad on the USAttorney’s Ofce of the Western District of Texas — speci-cally, Johnny Sutton, the US Attorney down there. Now don’tget me wrong here, I in no way wish any harm come to the guybut enough is enough. He needs to have the eas of a thousandcamels infest his crotch or maybe something worse — like sendhim to federal prison with a snitch ticket.

Sutton is the guy who decided to prosecute Border PatrolAgent Ignacio Ramos and fellow agent, Jose Alonso Com-pean, with what we now hear was urging from not only theBush Administration but the Mexican Government too. Nowwe nd Sutton also pushed his minions into prosecutingEdwards County Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez for viola-tion of an illegal alien’s civil rights. Now that’ll make youscratch your head won’t it?

Sutton charged Hernandez with violating “under thecolor of law” the civil rights of Maricela Rodriguez-Garcia,a Mexican national.On the night of April 14, 2005, Deputy Hernandez was onroutine patrol when he observed a speeding Suburban run ared light. The deputy stopped the vehicle and made hisapproach on the driver’s side. The driver slammed the truckback into drive and peeled away, almost running over thedeputy’s foot. Hernandez red several shots — one of whichblew out the rear tire. Okay so maybe he watched too manymovies but you can’t argue with success. The vehicle stopped,and disgorged its cargo of illegals into the sagebrush. MarcelaRodriguez-Garcia, one of the illegal aliens, stayed in the car.Speculation was she was curled up over the wheel well. Shewas hit by one of the bullets — it shattered some of her teeth.She was treated and released from a local hospital. According

to procedure, Deputy Hernandez reported the incident to hissupervisors and they called the state to investigate.

A few days after-wards, the Mexicanconsulate sent a letter tolocal and federal lawenforcement ofcials inTexas demanding a fullinvestigation. The USAttorney’s ofce charged Deputy Her-nandez with violating the civil rights of the woman notingbecause the agent’s life wasn’t in danger; he shouldn’t haveshot at the vehicle. His defense attorneys argue he was doinghis job and believed his life was in danger. By the way, thestate cleared Deputy Hernandez of any wrongdoing.

The deputy’s boss, Sheriff Donald G. Letsinger saidHernandez “followed the letter of the law” in defendinghimself in the April 2005 incident and questioned whythe government brought charges. “This is a ne youngman, and I just don’t believe he committed the wrong of which he was accused,” he added.

A jury from a pool notorious for its sympathy toward“undocumented worker’s rights” convicted Hernandez.Sutton’s goons asked for seven years, apparently stilldrunk with success in getting Ramos and Compean 10 and11 year sentences. The Judge sentenced Hernandez to oneyear and one day — far below the prosecution’s request.

If I worked for the Border Patrol, I’d be looking atnew employment options. The US Attorney’s Ofce of the Western District of Texas couldn’t care less if Mex-ican military units cross into our country and shoot at ouragents; they apparently don’t care if our folks are shot atby drug dealers and mules and they put every imaginableobstacle in place to keep Border Patrol from pursuing justshort of issuing the drug dealers and illegals spike strips.

If it were up to me, I’d indict Sutton for treason andfailing to register as an agent of a foreign government.

COPJIHAD

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