Chiron

We were on the B side of the range yesterday. Eight hours- shooting, shooting while moving and pivoting, moving in a tight stack with live ...

Another one for the "Combative Twilight Zone Files" today from training. (hmmmm... that would make a hell of a book, wouldn't ...

I did some classes for the South Coast Writer's Conference and I've been letting it settle for a week. There was a fair amount of ...

Today was a mix. Lots of paperwork. Good interactions with officers and inmates. An epiphany. A call-out. The epiphany : I've always w...

"What I saw was couple of DUMBASSES who didn't have the tactical sense god gave an animal cracker." - Mark Jones "You do...

You can't walk towards something without walking away from something else. Every choice that you make removes other choices from the ta...

There is an old Persian tale about a man whose wisdom was tested by Allah. He was told to cook the best meal in the world and the worst. F...

In the middle of  a day with nothing planned (!!!) it seemed like a good time to go over some old stuff.  My students may not know that I ta...

Talking with Vinnie in the locker room at the end of a wild, busy shift: "This one big guy, the guy DC called on, for a second I though...

An interesting problem last night- inmate refusing an order.  Not an english speaker.  Signs (not symptoms- an important distinction, especi...

A few years ago, friends of family or family of friends (names, locations etc. withheld) attempted to recruit me for their survivalist cell....

It seems that sometimes when much is going on, there is less time to write about it. As far as the need to write, to get stuff out of my sy...

Forty minutes into the first shift on line and I'm putting cuffs on a big guy. By the end of the day: fights averted, mental health iss...

A really pressing need to get away, be alone, let some of the dreck and contradiction and just slime of living in society seep away. So no ...

It's about time for a short series on the things that people just don't get when they are talking, thinking, training or analyzing a...

  Probably in the last ten years I've had the opportunity to be at the center of three things that have been done extraordinarily well. ...

As part of a project I am trying to put together a manual for agency instructors on this new way of teaching.  Most of it draws from a previ...

Sometimes it's not what you think it is. You spend years training, researching, planning, visualizing and then sometimes the rubber hits...

There was a short space years ago, assigned to a relatively small unit of about ten officers and only me and my friend were not going throu...

One of the things that is far more rare (and thus precious) than it should be is the ability to get to the edge of what you know and stop th...