NewsletterJuly 2, 2014
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Let Them Shine
Fitness Tip
What I Learned From 25 Years of Police Work
Understanding the OODA Loop

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Let Them Shine 


Rather than feeling threatened, leaders should recognize talent, hard work & creative energy

 

By Dale Stockton 
Law Officer Magazine

"We eat our own," he said.

I clearly recall my former chief making this comment several years ago. Law enforcement has a tendency to embrace the negative and minimize the positive when it comes to our own people, he was saying. This would seem out of place in a profession that claims to encourage personnel to improvise and empower them with autonomy.

While at the ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) conference, I had lunch with a trainer who's been in law enforcement for almost 30 years, having spent 20 of those years patrolling one of America's most crime-ridden cities. He's earned his stripes. Now approaching the big "R" in life-retirement-he was noticeably negative about his agency and his current role. He clearly felt he'd been relegated to a position of irrelevance. As we talked, he showed me a small booklet entitled 48 Laws of Power and said he wished he'd understood the first law when he began his career. "What's that first law?" I asked.

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Fitness Tip 


 

First responders often have limited workout time, so it's important to get the most out of workouts by starting with an appropriate warm-up. Using only static stretching, or lift specific exercises like push-ups prior to a bench press, as a warm-up may not increase muscle temperature and improve performance as well as exercises in this video. read more >  

 

What I Learned From 25 Years of Police Work  

  

Follow these six tenants for a successful law enforcement career.


 By Craig Medon

Reprinted from Police Magazine.


 A couple of months before I retired as a patrol officer from a suburban Detroit police department, I took on the challenge of training a new recruit. During that training, I passed on to the recruit some of the most important lessons that sustained me through my career and kept me motivated to cross the finish line to retirement.


 I'd like to continue to pass along these lessons so other officers can benefit from what I've learned. Here are six core tenants to follow.
Do your job to the best of your ability. We've all heard the saying that it's not about steering the ship in calm waters, it's about steering the ship during rough seas. Regardless of what's taking place around you, strive to perform at your best. I've also learned that taking shortcuts can come back to haunt us. 
Understanding the OODA Loop


 The key to acting more quickly than your adversary is to make it an unconscious response.

 

by Derek Stephens
Reprinted from Police Magazine


 

The more you study law enforcement training, the more you are likely to see the term "OODA loop." This term was coined by U.S. Air Force Col. John Boyd to explain the dynamics of fighter combat and why some pilots succeed when others fail. Boyd concluded that the outcomes of aerial engagements were often determined by how quickly a fighter pilot can process through the OODA, which meant to observe the enemy, orient to the stimulus presented by the enemy, decide to take action, and then act on that decision. Boyd added "loop" to signify that the process was continuous as long as combat was engaged.

 

Today, Boyd's combat theory is being applied to military engagements, to business strategy, to litigation, and of course to law enforcement operations and individual officer defense.  

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