Chris Magnus: Lawmakers must listen to law enforcement on dangerous gun bills
Posted on October 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
My former Chief, Chris Magnus, makes the case, HERE, for not de-regulating scilencers or expanding reciprocity of concealed carry permits as part of an effort to protect police officers and ensure we are able to respond to active shooters.
— Brian Lande
Chief Kenny Miller discusses Polis’s T3 training.
Posted on September 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Chief Kenny Miller, of the Petersburg Police Department (VA) discusses Polis’s “Tact, Tactics, and Trust” training as part of a broad intervention to lower violent crime in Petersburg. Watch his press conference with ABC8 news here.
— Brian Lande
Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime | Nature Human Behaviour
Posted on September 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5
Nature has published an article that challenges the conventional wisdom that proactive policing has a direct impact on lowering crime.
— Brian Lande
The Coordinator
Posted on September 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
The Coordinator
The Coordinator is a much needed text for law enforcement officers. The book is one of the few guides available that tries to codify how officers can manage their encounters with individuals in emotional or psychiatric distress while maintaining a safe environment and tactically advantageous posture. More than that, the book teaches reaching across cultural and social divides that make it difficult for officers to be able to coordinate the action of the individuals they encounter during their patrol shifts.
Police encounters are of course human encounters like any other but where the situations officers find themselves in are high risk, high consequence.” In this sense, police work cannot simply be like “social work on the street.” What authors Amdur and Hubal call “coordinators” must manage high stakes interactions in unfamiliar settings and take an active role of maintaining control and exercising leadership within these situations. Amdur and Hubal emphasize a variety of perceptual and cognitive skills to develop to help officers make sense of the unfamiliar, develop their pattern matching abilities, detect anomalys, and maintain self control in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty. Of the action based skills Amdur and Hubal emphasize, error repair is perhaps the most important. Social interaction will and do go wrong. They are inherently unstable and filled with noisy information. Error detection and repair is the key to getting an encounter back on track from the inevitable misunderstandings and mistakes that will occur.
Officers who read this book will respect that the goal of the book is to solve a problem they struggle with regularly, how do officers “remain prepared for something going terribly wrong at any moment, while still maintaining the intention and ability to help?”
You can purchase the The Coordinator here at Amazon.
— Brian Lande
Use of Force Policy Training featured in Chicago Sun Tims
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
Polis basic Use of Force Policy training for Chicago Police Department featured in Chicago Sun-Times.
—Brian Lande
Chicago’s ABC7 features Polis Solutions’s Training
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
http://http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=2440451
Polis’s training has been featured in Chicago ABC7’s coverage of Chicago Police Department’s new Use of Force Policy Training. Although the segment does not mention Polis Solutions by name the piece describes the training,
“Officers watched video of real situations outside of Chicago, wrote down impressions, actions at several stages of the scene, then discussed options and opportunities to de-escalate and adhere to the department’s new priority sanctity of life.”
We are delighted that our training is being well received and having a positive impact on a large department like Chicago PD.
You can watch the video at ABC7’s here.
— Brian Land
Polis Use of Force Training Featured in Chicago Tribune
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
On Friday, the Chicago Tribute featured an article on the Chicago Police Departments new Use of Force Training. Although Polis Solutions is not mentioned directly, the training material is prominently featured in the article, Chicago police lay out ambitious annual training plans for its 12,000 officers. The training featured is the initial four hour course Polis developed.
— Brian Lande
Polis Solutions Featured in Scientific American
Posted on September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
Brian Lande and Jonathan Wender’s research and training company, Polis Solutions, has been featured in Scientific American article, Stress Training for Cop’s Brains. Jonathan Wender writes in the piece,
“We need evidence-based, human performance training that starts in the academy and continues across every career phase, so when you’re tired, scared or stressed, you still do the right thing.”
Jonathan also argues that police are judged for there errors along moral, emotional, and political dimensions but not the same types of evaluations we make of other professions, such as medicine or aviation. When a doctor makes an error the explanation is not immediately or automatically considered to be moral or political, but likely an human performance error of judgement or perception.
Detroit Cops Have to Work 2-3 Jobs to Make a Living.
Posted on February 26, 2014 Leave a Comment
Detroit Cops Have to Work 2-3 Jobs to Make a Living.
Should cops, who already do a difficult and dangerous job, have to work an additional job or two in order to make a living? Are there consequences to having the public officials tasked with protecting citizens and guaranteeing civil liberties have divided attentions and loyalties?
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