Frontline Debriefs: LAPD SWAT Tactics
LAPD SWAT has had four major shootouts in the last four months. I do not recall there having…
Frontline Debriefs: Newhall Incident Revisited
Virtually from my first day in the LAPD Academy in 1976, I was instructed in all matters relative…
Frontline Debriefs: Deadly Force Shootings
If you have not seen the Clint Eastwood-directed movie Sully, you need to. What does an emergency passenger…
Frontline Debriefs: The Minefield of Social Media Sharing
In the beginning, there was word of mouth, which gave way to clay tablets, which in turn progressed…
Frontline Debriefs: Righteous Debriefs
In “D” Platoon of the LAPD in the old days, we conducted what I would term “righteous debriefs.”…
Frontline Debriefs: “Master” Gunfighters
Are there “master” gunfighters? The simple answer is no. The explanation is a bit more complicated. There is…
Frontline Debriefs: Why Train?
Imagine all those who have wished they had trained harder just before everything was taken from them. When…
Frontline Debriefs: Cheap Gear Failures
I have a dozen or more pieces of ill-fated equipment that have failed students in the past. This…
Frontline Debriefs: Witness Interviews
Individuals who are neither police nor military have their own unique perception and interpretation of events. This is…
Frontline Debriefs: Back-Ups
The rationale behind a recent growing trend simply escapes me. On a number of OIS cases I’ve worked…