NewsletterNovember 6, 2014
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Training To Die?
Fitness Tip
Workaholics and the Doomed Pursuit of Perfection
Ferguson's Unasked Questions

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Training To Die? 


by Lt. Jim Glennonj


 

Pretend that there is no minimum standard or lowest, yet acceptable, score. Pretend, just pretend, that how you train today may be the difference between life and death tomorrow. Would the arbitrary minimum standard established by your agency ensure a win when faced with an adversary hell-bent  and-laser-focused-on killing you?


 

To some that first paragraph might sound like a clich�, and to many it may be, but it is still an accurate description of both training programs and personal philosophies by too many law enforcement officers around this country.


 

I am beyond blessed in so many ways, and one of those blessings is the opportunity to interact with more than 10,000 law enforcement officers every year as an instructor and owner of Calibre Press. Several years ago, at a Street Survival Seminar, an officer recounted a harrowing experience he had that involved a gun-battle with a very violent felon. He won the fight but at the end of the story he told me this: "I realized afterwards that all the training in my entire career was actually teaching me how to lose a gunfight." That comment stuck with me, as I held a belief for years that there was a serious lack of realistic training in our profession.

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Fitness Tip 


 

Despite limited equipment, combination lifts such as the "Medicine Ball Blast Combination Lift" can be used to perform interval training which can increase lactate threshold, ultimately resulting in an increase in performance. Combination lifts combine multiple exercises to make one exercise made up of multiple movements. For a video of how to perform, click here >

 


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Workaholics and the Doomed Pursuit of Perfection  

  

by Dorothy McCoy


Power is my mistress; I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. --Napoleon


The workaholic is in a committed relationship with his IPad, IPhone and laptop. You see him or her sitting in airports, impeccably dressed and keyboarding or animatedly arguing with their cell phones. They appear frazzled, as if someone has just trampled all over their shiny Gucci loafers or high heels pumps. A workaholic's career is the core of his or her self-concept, not "what he or she does." Needless to say, they take their work very seriously.


I have seen this "work is God" mindset in police officers, especially if they are recent academy graduates. Their all-consuming zeal for law enforcement usually declines through the years and they become more mainstream. This is not the prognosis for most overachievers. Workaholics share much with individuals who meet the criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). This is not the same diagnosis as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), the life-limiting condition made famous in James Brooks', As Good As It Gets, starring Jack Nicholson. OCD individuals may have compulsive behaviors such as checking many times to be certain the front door is locked before leaving for work. As you can readily understand, these behaviors can interfere with the OCD sufferers' relationships and career. Whereas, the defining features of OCPD is a tendency to be perfectionist, inflexible, and preoccupied with orderliness.

 

Ferguson's Unasked Questions

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By Heather Mac Donald


In the Missouri city and elsewhere, the media clings to predetermined conclusions.

The fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old named Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, this August triggered weeks of riots and looting, as well as nonstop media coverage. The press quickly developed a formula for reporting on the "unrest," as the media still call such violence: select some aspect of Ferguson's political or civic culture; declare that feature racist, by virtue of its being associated with Ferguson; disregard alternative explanations for the phenomenon; blame riots on it. Bonus move: generalize to other cities with similar "problems."


Some examples: Ferguson's population is two-thirds black, but five of its six city council members are white, as is its mayor. Conclusion: this racial composition must be the product of racism. Never mind that blacks barely turn out to vote and field practically no candidates. Never mind that the mayor ran for a second term unopposed. Is there a record of Ferguson's supposed white power structure suppressing the black vote? None has been alleged. Did the rioters even know who their mayor and city council representatives were? The press didn't bother to ask. But this "problem" is disturbingly widespread, in the media's eyes: MOSTLY BLACK CITIES, MOSTLY WHITE CITY HALLS, announced a New York Times front-page story on September 29, complete with a sophisticated scatter-graph visual aid.


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