by Scott Savage | Apr 20, 2020 | Critical Incident Response
How using the Contain-Point-React (CPR) concept can be a foolproof way to respond to a suspect who is barricaded or otherwise isolated and how you can save lives. CPR saves lives but so does CPR. Let me back up a bit. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is what we use...
by Scott Savage | Mar 30, 2020 | Critical Incident Response
According to a 1964 hit song by the Rolling Stones, “Time is on my side, yes, it is.” How true is that statement for law enforcement officers? Is time always on our side? We have all heard the assertion that it is repeated over and over but is it really? In this...
by Lloyd MacKinnon | Nov 13, 2019 | Critical Incident Response, Officer Safety
My patrol officers and I responded to the city park on a report of a homeless person acting strangely, which is a common call we receive. Upon contacting this man, we could immediately see he was mentally unstable. Whether this condition was something he had been born...
by Scott Savage | Jul 20, 2019 | Critical Incident Response
Law enforcement is under more scrutiny than any other time in history. It’s the decision-making of patrol officers that tends to get the most attention. After all, it’s an officer’s decision to fight, chase, shoot or otherwise engage that makes headlines. One way of...
by Scott Savage | Apr 15, 2019 | Critical Incident Response, Officer Safety
Thinking of de-escalation as a verb, an action the police can do to a suspect, fails to account for the two things required of the suspect for de-escalation to be successful. No doubt “de-escalation” is a buzzword in law enforcement and in the media. It’s usually...
by Scott Savage | Oct 18, 2018 | Critical Incident Response
“Man with a Knife” can mean very different things. In this article we’ll take a look at a way to evaluate threats during a critical incident response. Individual law enforcement officers and incident commanders alike must routinely evaluate suspects. They...
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