Part 2 of a 2-part series When the smoke clears II: More legal tips for after your shooting Sponsored by: 10-8: Life on the Linewith Charles Remsberg In Part 1 of this series, we tapped the experience of John Hoag, a prominent law enforcement union attorney who has represented more than 40 officers in deadly force situations, for advice on legal “first aid” you should tend to after a shooting, to protect your best interests. Part 2 continues with his guidance: CLICK POST TITLE TO SEE ENTIRE ARTICLE

Part 1 of a 2-part series from Force Science News The story is a frequent staple of the evening news. An officer shoots and kills a minority subject who turns out to be unarmed. Protests explode, and the familiar litany is again asserted: Racial bias by the cops underlies many of these inflammatory events. Now a new study by a member of the Force Science Research Center’s national advisory board confirms what law enforcement officials have argued all along: Such controversial shootings aren’t about race. What really prompts an officer to pull the trigger in circumstances that are rapidly evolving and uncertain …Read more […..]

Police Driving:Safety Behind the Wheelwith Capt. Travis Yates PoliceOne Exclusive: How we die — the untold storyHow do law enforcement officers die? Most of you are probably thinking you know. Unless you’ve been sleeping for the last decade, you’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it: guns and cars, with collisions leading the way for the past several years. I fear that we have somehow minimized these collisions by calling them “accidents” and throwing our hands in the air as if we can’t do anything. Whatever we are doing, it’s not working. More officers died in 2007 in vehicle …Read more […..]