NewsletterNovember 5, 2015
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Presumed Compliance
Fitness Tip
Innocent Suspects' Response to Interrogation
2 Tactics Agencies Should Employ in Post-Ferguson Policing

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Presumed Compliance
Preparation-true preparation-is the only way to be a cop


About two decades ago I realized that the only way I'd ever be able to defend myself is if I understood four things:

1   What did I fear?
2   How do I conquer those fears?
3   How do 'real' attacks occur?
4   And, how do I defend against those real attacks?

The "truth" I discovered was never in bigger muscles or accumulating techniques.

The truth-yours and mine-was in understanding behavior, psychology, biomechanics and violence.
Sounds so simple, right? So tell me, why has this obvious process eluded most defensive tactics instructors as well as virtually every self-defense and martial art system?

DT trainers must realize that it's only during their class that an officer is supposed to learn how to protect himself and control a hostile subject. If that process fails, someone may die. If half the techniques taught don't really work, then half the training time is wasted. And, sadly, most of what is taught doesn't address the realities of serious, aggressive resistance, which is the only time an officer is in real danger. Many street tragedies could be avoided. Presumptuous training strategies and tactics are partly to blame.

Suffice it to say, there are problems with the training process. However, there's a far bigger problem than the DT curriculum. The real problem is you, the officer.
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Fitness Tip 

 

 
Prevent pain and injury in one of the top three injury areas for first responders by performing the four simple shoulder exercises shown in this video.  
Innocent Suspects' Response to Interrogations  
 
January - February 2012  

(Please Note: If you wish to print and share an Investigator Tip with your colleagues, the John E. Reid 'credit and permission' statement following the article must be included.)

The process of interrogation is reserved for suspects whose guilt is reasonably certain. This assessment may be based on a combination of forensic or testimonial evidence implicating the suspect in the crime, circumstantial evidence revealing the suspect's opportunity, access, motive and propensity to commit the crime, or the suspect's behavior, e.g., going into seclusion following the crime, catching the suspect in a known lie, etc. 

At John E. Reid and Associates about 80% of suspects who are interrogated provide a corroborated, trustworthy confession.1 We believe that many of the remaining 20% of suspects are guilty of the crime but simply resistant to legally permissible interrogation tactics. However, some of those suspects were deemed by the investigator to be innocent of committing the crime resulting in the termination of the interrogation. This web tip addresses the typical behavior of an innocent suspect during an interrogation.
 
2 Tactics Agencies Should Employ in Post-Ferguson Policing  
 
 

As an old beat cop once said to NYPD Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt, "You have to walk softly, but carry a big stick"

It has been one year since Ferguson and police are still suffering after some of the most maliciously inaccurate reporting of any officer-involved shooting in history. Since that day, animosity toward police has been nursed by some in the media and activists like an ember in a camp fire on a television survival show. It has been stoked into a bonfire until every cop in the nation is being singed by the heat.

Whether the animosity is pent up, stirred up, or conjured up, this heat exists. Officers have died because of it and it is getting as dangerous out there for the average beat cop as it was in the late 60s and early 70s.

Now is not the time to double down, but to double up. Here are two ways:

1. Two-Officer Squads
It is time to re-visit two officer squads. Not every squad in the nation, mind you, but there are identifiable times and locations where an officer will be instantaneously in over their head the moment they exit their squad alone.

Some of the problems that a one-officer unit would face during these times and in these locations could be prevented by having two officers immediately on the scene rather than one. This is happening in some venues, but it needs to be more widely considered.
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