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Force Encounters Analysis online is a practical and understandable course, based on unbiased scientific evidence pertaining to officer-involved use of force (UOF). The course's primary goal is to assist LE professionals in applying ground-breaking concepts revealed in human performance research when engaging in force encounters, and when investigating, reconstructing, recalling or otherwise analyzing a UOF incident.
FITNESS TIP - from The Cooper Institute
Most anyone will tell you that performing rope exercises continuously for even just a few seconds can take your breath away. Performing 15-second intervals of exercises like those in this video provides an effective, vigorous intensity workout comparable to other forms of interval training..  

INTERVIEW TIP from John E. Reid & Assoc.
Good vs. Bad Liars


Earlier this year the nation was transfixed by the trial of Casey Anthony, a young woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee. During the course of the investigation Casey was interviewed on several occasions and she told many confirmed lies. The recorded interviews showed an apparently distraught but credible woman who revealed no specific cues of deception while fabricating explanations to account for her missing daughter. She explained away incriminating circumstantial evidence and blatantly lied to specific questions concerning her daughter's disappearance with ease and confidence.


Casey was described by experts as being "comfortable" lying. While her detached affect, inappropriate attitudes and uncorroborated explanations accounting for Caylee's disappearance certainly raised suspicions, she exhibited minimal nonverbal or paralinguistic symptoms of anxiety, fear, guilt or decreased confidence normally observed when a person tells a significant lie. In detection of deception jargon, Casey would be described as a "good" liar.


The average person is not a good liar. Typically when someone tells an important lie they will reveal symptoms such as averting eye contact or altering their posture. They may engage in grooming gestures like dusting imaginary lint from their clothing or fidgeting with an article of jewelry. A person guilty of wrong-doing usually displays particular attitudes like being unconcerned ("This is not important to me), unhelpful ("I have no idea what happened and have no information to help you"), unrealistic ("I don't think that fire was intentionally started") or guarded: (Q: "Tell me everything you did last Friday night." R: "Nothing at all."). The bad liar may qualify his response ("to the best of my knowledge") or delay his response when answering a direct question.

STREET CRIMES TIP - from StreetCrimes.com
Courtroom Magic

Courtroom Magic - a legal technique that police officers can use in court to possibly develop a street source. Here's how it works:

Prior to court getting started, approach your prosecutor and ask them if they have any cases that they know will be dismissed today due to victim or witnesses that did not show up and have no interest in pursuing the case. The prosecutor knows this case is going nowhere.

Explain to the prosecutor that you are trying to make the offender believe that you are the one that's helping this case go away for him. Locate the offender and ask him/her to talk to you outside of the courtroom. Once in the hallway, introduce yourself and let them know that you might be able to help them out in this case if they are willing to cooperate with you either now or in the future with any useful street information. Little do they know, the case will be ended today with or without your intervention - That's the beauty of this tactic.

Once they understand what you are telling them, tell the offender to reenter the courtroom, sit in the back and wait for his case to be called. Say to them "I'm going to go talk to the prosecutor now". Walk up to the prosecutor, have a brief conversation so that the offender sees you talking to him/her. Ask them to nod in approval as you are talking to them. All the while your subject is going to be observing this and will buy into the fact that you are really working to get him off on his case. .
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