What Signal Are You Sending?

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN WHAT SIGNAL ARE YOU SENDING? We need to talk about the hats, bumper stickers, tattoos, and t-shirts. I once came across an email from a Sergeant Major in an elite counter-terrorism unit to his guys. It started: “We have...

Public Relations: You’re doing it wrong.

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN PUBLIC RELATIONS: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG There was a recent Deputy-involved shooting in Arizona in which the suspect was killed and the deputy was wounded. A pro-LE media outlet published an article that said the...

Shoot or No-Shoot?

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN   SHOOT OR NO SHOOT? We had an interesting critical thinking debate at SWAT training recently. Suppose you are serving a search warrant in which crucial evidence could potentially be destroyed, and an entry is...
Fight Club with Craig Douglas

Fight Club with Craig Douglas

EPISODE 21 FIGHT CLUB WITH CRAIG DOUGLAS Craig Douglas, retired cop chats about fighting when weapons are involved Craig Douglas is a retired SWAT and undercover narcotics cop who started a company called Shivworks, specializing in close-range and entangled...

K9s and Decision-Making

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN K9 Story of the Day My K9 partner and I recently worked with a team of Officers to arrest a man who ran from a stolen car with a 10-inch hunting knife on his belt. No one was more surprised than me when he crashed through...