Police officers use guns, medical people prefer drugs, and pilots choose airplanes. Not always of course, but with enough frequency that leadership should always be alert to this data and act with some foresight about recognizing and reducing known risks. Suicide is only inexplicable if you ...
Historically, people carrying weapons or wearing armor seldom use arm gestures because their weapon or armor provides sufficient body protection. Police officers wearing guns infrequently cross their arms as they too feel instinctively protected. Half Hugs When we were children our parents or carers emb...
From 2016 through 2021, there were more than 45,000 suspected ghost guns reported to the ATF as having been recovered by police from potential crime scenes. How do people usually make ghost guns? Ghost guns can be made using a 3D printer or assembled from a kit. The weapons can be ...
. They were allegedly participants in the boogaloo and militia movements, andpolice said they had ghost guns. Fixes are in the making. Several states havetaken preliminary stepsto restrict ghost guns, and in May the Department of Justice proposed new rules and regulations that would make it much...
In the United States, police rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after officers use physical force. Whether they do can depend on a system that operates after the initial attention passes: medical examiners and coroners who decide ...
Data on the shootings of police address the number of officers killed or shot nonfatally, the number of officers who might have been killed but for the protection of soft body armor, hit rates and fatality rates, accidental deaths, the use of deadly force against police in smaller ...
The president’s efforts have focused on pushing out funding to help police do better at getting guns off the streets, sending in some federal agents to help beleaguered departments. The Justice Department is also prioritizing gun cases that come from the "iron pipeline" on Interstate 95, where...
Swatting is a common but dangerous prank in which one person calls the police to report an emergency situation at another person’s home or place of business, causing the police to swarm the location, often with guns drawn. This sort of fake emergency is considered an instance of giving ...
If Police Storm In, Take Cover And Make Sure You Are Not A Threat In some instances, law enforcement officers will storm a building to end a siege. They might use stun grenades, also known as flashbangs, along with gunfire to attempt to disorientate and incapacitate the captor. If a res...
We set up some guns and in just a few minutes we began to take a little fire and then another chopper got there and we dragged the bodies to the other chopper and got out of there (calling in artillery fire on the downed chopper). ———- Writing this has been a comfort to me. ...