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
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 must decide if a suspect is a threat and if so to what degree....
by Scott Savage | Oct 18, 2018 | Critical Incident Response
Every day, law enforcement agencies respond a particular type of critical incident that is both high frequency and high risk. It is one that there can be seemingly no good way of handling because it is ripe with tactical dilemmas and worry of liability. With the best...
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