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He said, “I don’t know, put them at the dirt berm and shoot next to them maybe?” I explained why that was not a good idea. And thanks to Clint, I can now show him the article to back me up. Make sure you continue to not be afraid to address these kinds of important issues. Name withheld by request Back Where? I read Roy’s column about being “Back in the Saddle” (Insider, March/ April 2009) and wanted to say hi. I recall reading his stuff since the early 1980s and now I’m glad to see he’s the editor at COP. I’m sure he’ll keep the ball rolling there and I’ve always enjoyed his to-the-point attitude. Which is why I like your magazine! Foster Alberts Canadian LE Officer Via e-mail Thanks Foster, and I’m glad to see our friends “up there” are getting Amer- ns o i t p O l tha e L s s e om L c . e r o t erS c i f f O @ AÊ completeÊ lineÊ ofÊ aerosolÊ projectorsÊ inÊ threeÊ differentÊ formulationsÊ forÊ everyÊ situation.Ê AndÊ theÊ pouchesÊ toÊ keepÊ themÊ secureÊ andÊ readyÊ forÊ action. CallÊ 800-852-6088Ê orÊ visitÊ onlineÊ @Ê OfficerStore.com 8 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=9http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=9ican COP. We’ll continue to help those of you on the streets by keeping you posted about good gear, tactics, ideas, tips — and we’ll continue to make sure you know what’s ridiculous too. That’s the fun part! Roy tactic, but have never done it or seen it done. How effective is it when using the .223? Can any of your writers expand on this tactic? Deputy Jason Etheridge Via e-mail Jason, I’ve had the opportunity to not only witness this sort of thing, but actu- Defend ‘Em? I thought Mr. Clough’s article (In Defense of Defense Attorneys, March/April 2009) was going to be some drivel about public defenders and how hard their jobs are, with hand wringing and such. I was surprised to read a well-balanced article about why we do need good, ethical defense attorneys, even though many of us in law enforcement still hate it when one “uses” the law to get a client off. Mr. Clough’s article helped me to understand some of the reasons they “win” at times. Officer Carl Robertson New Jersey It did give us some idea, and I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot through glass if I had to — but you’d be sure to damage your hearing I’ll bet. ally fired a few rounds through a windshield from the inside. A good friend had access to a junkyard in the country and the owner didn’t mind if we did a bit of informal testing on cracked windshields. What we found (wearing leather welding jackets and goggles and face shields) was the rounds all easily penetrated. The muzzle blast and noise were stunning though. Depending upon the load (standard ball 55-gr. FMJ or Federal’s Tactical .223 we used at the time some years ago), performance on the target varied. The FMJ ball had some fragmentation issues but still made good holes in a target about five yards in front of the hood. It was hard to tell, but it seems there was also some variation in impact from our point of aim. The Federal Tactical held together better. We used a 20" Colt AR and sat way back to clear. While not a comprehensive test, it did give us some idea, and I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot through glass if I had to — but you’d be sure to damage your hearing I’ll bet. I’m not sure how these short-barreled rifles perform though. Maybe a reader out there has some experience with this and can write in? Let us know at editor@ americancopmagazine.com and we’ll print what we learn. Roy Shooting Windshields The photo in the article about the Spike’s Tactical rifle (Spike’s Tactical ST-15 SBR, March/April 2009) shows an officer posing as if he’s going to shoot through the windshield. I’ve seen training like this and read where it’s a viable Likes Us Great magazine! A bud told me about your online edition and since I have a wireless Internet card for my laptop, I can read COP during those long graveyard shifts and not have to WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 92009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=10http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=10At SIG SAUER, we will always be indebted to you for your service to our country. As a small token of our appreciation, we are offering a special rebate program* on new SIG SAUER pistols and rifles. For more information, visit our website at: http://www.sigsauer.com/LawEnforcement/IndividualOfficers.aspx For questions concerning the program call (603) 418-8190 or email publicsafetysales@sigsauer.com *Offer available to all first responders and active or retired law enforcement officers. SIG SAUER, Inc. 18 Industrial Drive, Exeter, NH 03833 USA 10 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=11http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=11“Glory is something that some men chase and others find themselves stumbling upon, not expecting it to find them.” – Petty Officer Marc Lee RETURN FIRE worry about my squad mates stealing my issue! Oh, I read it for training, not for pleasure — right. Officer Rory Atchinson Oregon If you haven’t checked it out, go to www.americancopmagazine.com and browse the online edition. It’s searchable so you can find an article from any past issue, and allows “hot links” on Web sites. Roy And … First off thank you for an excellent magazine. Each issue gives food for thought. I have the honor to be the Training Officer and Firearms Instructor for a branch of Brink’s Inc., the armored car company, and the subject of plastic/toy/ colored guns has come up in our training. Just as police officers are expected launches a powerful, less-lethal inflammatory agent at 90 MPH that instantly stops an assailant. See it in action at www.pepperblaster.com PepperBlaster™ THE MARC LEE GLORY KNIFE Model 150 BKSN BENCHMADE.COM ©2009 BENCHMADE KNIFE CO. OREGON CITY, OR, USA MODEL SHOWN: 150BKSN This kind of training is not only cost effective, but it’s safe and allows a student to leave training with the same number of holes as he/she started the session with. to make very fast decisions under stress, our messengers, when out on the street between their truck and a customer’s location, are in a similar situation. They may have to make a life and death decision. If it’s pointed at them, and the bad guy will not respond to orders to stop, the messenger’s job is to “stop the action.” If anybody thinks a “plastic gun” would somehow intimidate or save him, they chose the wrong armored car messenger to approach. Clint Smith’s column (Plastic Practice, Realty Check II Jan/Feb 2009) preaches to the choir. The use of it should be shouted from the rooftops. This kind of training is not only cost effective, but it’s safe and allows a student to leave training with the same number of holes as he/she started the session with. Thank you again for publishing these two articles, and an excellent publication. Chris McDonald Branch Training Officer Denver Armored - B0175 fits most brands of 1911 pistols. Installation takes one minute without tools. Adjustable sight is included. .22 LR Conversion Kit offers premium 1911 night sights, magazines, grips, performance parts and refinishing in the high-tech KimPro II ¨ process. 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Getac recommends Windows Vista® Business __ V100 Rugged Convertible ticle by Dr. Williams (Shooting With X-Ray Vision), I now know I’ve been right for many years regarding roundplacement in order to stop an attack. Having had EMT and flight-medic training I knew the conventional paper targets were incorrect and had us all shooting in the wrong place. Anybody familiar with human anatomy knows this. Thank you for making this known to more officers. However, the problem remains in current training, still using the basic paper target. As shown, the back of a target using this information would leave the shooter low in “qualification” scores. Most of us out there may shoot twice a year. If we use this concept the scores would be low — maybe careerending low — and most of us don’t have the opportunity to shoot enough so we can qualify one day and train properly the rest of the time. We need a strong movement within the law enforcement world to produce a proper target. Thank you for a true “cop’s” magazine. Thank you for the real stuff! Sgt. Rick Hochmann Santa Anna PD, Texas More Pink Ponderings Whether you job involves restoring power, knocking down a blaze or putting away bad guys, Getac’s rugged V100 convertible laptop is ready for practically any challenge. Getac, Built to Survive. www.getac.com __ It is a big deal, treat it as a real gun. I’m not in police work of any type, however I have a conceal carry permit. I feel anyone facing an officer with a gun is subject to being shot. Sherrill Smith Salem, VA Toro Caca In response to Paul Markel’s editorial (Toro Caca: Priceless or Ridiculous, Jan/Feb 2009), I started my adult life in Carter’s Army (1975-78) and intended to make a career out of military service. Being sent to do my duty armed with an M16A1 baseball bat helped me realize I couldn’t “play the game” for 20 or more years. I had hoped things had changed, at least while we’re engaged in the War 4:04:21 PM on Terror. It seems our troops need our prayers even more than I realized. Thanks for a fine publication. Cpl. Daniel Branscome San Manuel Indian Nation Dept. of Public Safety AmericAn cOP Tm welcomes letters to the editor. We reserve the right to edit all published letters for clarity and length. Due to the volume of mail, we are unable to individually answer your letters or e-mail. in sending a letter to American cOP, you agree to provide Publishers Development corp. such copyright as is required for publishing and redistributing the contents of your letter in any format. Send your letters to return Fire, American cOP, 12345 World Trade Dr., San Diego, cA 92128; www.americancopmagazine.com; e-mail: ed@americancopmagazine.com. Optional 1200 NITs display / Magnesium alloy casing / Convertible tablet screen / Intel® Core® 2 Duo processor / Full-size keyboard / MIL-STD-810F and iP54 certified © 2009 Getac Inc. All rights reserved. GETAC is a registered trademark and Built to Survive is a trademark of GETAC Inc. FMG HALF VERT 315.indd 1 3/13/09 * 12 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=13http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=13G2G GOOD TO GO GEAR STrEamlighT POlySTyluS SUZi HUnTinGTOn They did it again. Streamlight has introduced the Polystylus Pen Light and captured the cDiF, no, not chicks, but cops Dig it Factor. The light is an ultra-slim, tough fiberglass polymer penlight weighs in at only 1.4 ounces, that’s with the three AAAA batteries in it, and is 6.68" long, perfect for your shirt pocket. it uses a high-intensity LeD with a 100,000-hour lifetime. You’ll burn out long before it does. The Polystylus is available in four LeD colors: white, blue, red or green. You detective or surveillance folk can use the red or green LeD to help maintain your night vision while on a detail. Patrol officers will find the blue LeD helpful in examining someone’s license during a traffic stop. The white LeD is an all-around useful back up light. The lights are constructed of a fiberglass epoxy body to resist bending or flexing. They’re designed for rugged, heavy-duty use, so even your partner, mongo, won’t destroy it. They’re also water, muck and gunk resistant thanks to the O-ring sealed polycarbonate lens. But here’s the best part: they’re only around $25 for any one of the lights, or you can be reckless and get all four interchangeable heads in a combo pack, for only $10 more. www.streamlight.com Meprolight® night sight sets are available for most popular brands and models of pistols, revolvers and tactical rifles. They are tough, 20% brighter than other night sights and backed by the strongest warranty in the business. Meprolight night sights in both fixed and adjustable versions are offered in a variety of contrasting colors. Their brightness and quality are unequaled. Pistol Sight Sets AR-15 & Clones Quick to install, Meprolight night sights for Colt, Bushmaster, DPMS and others ensure a positive aiming point in low light. SUZi HUnTinGTOn While i’m not exactly sure why anything that eliminates odor is tactical, nonetheless, there are times when it is, indeed, tactical to not stink. The boys from “Blue Wonder” (now working closely with PointBlank Body Armor) have developed this secret recipe that, yes America … kills odor! And if you’ve ever worn body armor during a hot summer you understand the meaning of “vestusordorus” — Latin for: You stink to high heaven. recently, at a trade show i bumped into Ken Gibbs and Will Thompson, modern day mutt and Jeff, the head honchos of Blue Wonder. What a couple of goofs, but i really like them. They walked up to me and immediately said, “here, smell this.” now i’ve been around long enough to know when a man says that, he’s not about to have you smell something nice. Sure enough, i was right. They had sprayed a paper towel with full-strength ammonia — pew. Then they sprayed their Tactical Odor eliminator on the same paper towel and, poof, the smell was gone. not just covered up with some other scent, but gone. i remembered the number of times i had to endure the nastiness of some idiot i was transporting to jail who had either barfed, crapped in his pants or was just your ordinary stinky bum. Some of my work mates had never introduced their vest covers to a washing machine or were trying to stretch one uniform through the entire week — ew. i sure could’ve used this stuff then. i now have a bottle of the stuff and i’m waiting for my sister to come for a visit with her poopy-diaper-maker of a son. maybe i can just spray his butt with it? Anyway, Tactical Odor eliminator is really good stuff — it really does work. i don’t exactly know how and the boys tell me it’s proprietary, but i’ve smelled it for myself. maybe it’s voodoo magic? www.pointblankarmor.com WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM TacTical OdOr EliminaTOr Meprolight reflex sights provide a bright, dependable 24-hour aiming point without using battery power. 3X magnification is available. Distributed by Optical Systems Call or write for free catalog. Kimber, Dept. 241 One Lawton Street, Yonkers, NY 10705, call (800) 880-2418 or visit www.kimberamerica.com Kimber and Kimber 2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=14http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=14Ó SPECIAL WEAPONS For a single, precise shot to resolve a situation, it has to be fired from a special weapon. Enter the Savage LE Series. Special weapons. Exceptional accuracy. savagearms.com 14 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=15http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=15G2G SUZi HUnTinGTOn i’ve been a Spyderco-carrying girl since i was a little baby cop in the mid-1980s. i originally carried the Police model, all stainless steel construction and one of the first clip knives i’d ever seen. i was new to knives back then, but i was already on my way to addiction. The serrated blade seemed to saw through anything. But that early clip style, where they had stamped the clip from the handle, leaving a channel behind, was a pants pocket “ruinator.” next came the Delica, the pink Delica to be specific. And along with that knife started my relationship with Joyce Laituri, Spyderco’s marketing manager. Here was another girl who obviously had the knife-gene. She’s the one who made sure i got a new pink Delica (despite it being discontinued) after a rather unfortunate incident between my knife and a toilet in a public restroom at mission Bay — the toilet won. it’s a long story. Over the years Joyce has kept a steady stream of Spyderco knives coming my way. She recently let me play with their new c125 Khukuri, designed by ed Schempp. i really liked the blade shape on this one. it’s curved about 45 degrees in the locked position and has a deep, drop-point belly. it’s not a knife you’d typically think of for police work, but it felt good in my hand and i can see it will be a good choice for police use. The Khukuri is 4 3/8" when closed, with an overall length of 7 11/16". The blade, which is VG-10 steel, is 3 7/16" long; all this in a Foliage Green G-10 handle with a liner lock. The clip can be mounted for either a left or right-hand, tip up carry. if i was still a cop i could see myself using this knife. i bet it would be a very effective seat belt cutter and the angled blade would make scraping registration tags from license plates a snap. The price is around $229. www.spyderco.com SPydErcO KhuKuri rOY HUnTinGTOn Sometimes cheap is good, and when it comes to the Kel-Tec P-32, it’s good. At about $300 at full boat retail, it’s tiny, reliable, really pocketsized, and led the pack in affordable tiny semi-potent pocket rockets for years. They have a big-brother, P-3AT in .380, but frankly, some people have trouble managing recoil in a .380 that tiny and light. A polymer frame keeps it at about eight ounces fully loaded, so this thing is feathery! We’re showing the P-32 because it was the first of the breed, and this very gun is one i’ve had since they were first introduced, hence the wear and tear visible. i’ve carried it so much the holster in the picture is the second Thad rybka holster for it since i wore out the first one. it’s pretty much impossible to wear out a Tr holster, but i did. This was and is my “all the time” gun and is always a close second to whatever my “real” gun is at the time. Taking out the trash at night? into the pocket. Working in the garage with the door open? into the pocket. Sitting at my computer working on this magazine in the middle of 20 acres in the country with no sign of anyone within a half-mile? into my pocket. Get my drift? it holds eight rounds of just about whatever .32 you want to feed it and disappears in the palm of your hand. The DA-only feature is safe and reliable. is it the best gun to fight with? Absolutely, positively not. But … it just might give you the edge when you’d otherwise be utterly unprepared. As a cop back-up, or a secondary gun, it might work for you. Keep it clean, shoot it with a stiff wrist and it will work fine. www.kel-tec-cnc.com WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM KEl-TEc’S P-32 * 152009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=16http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=16HIGH TECH ROY hUNtINGtON CUttING EdGE WIdGEts — ANd OthER NEW stUff. Pelican 9430 KicK-Butt -Butt light The Winner Is on’t tell me you don’t have the flashlight gene, because I know you do. I’m always in the middle of a quest for the bestest, brightest, coolest, smallest, niftiest, makes-the-most-sense flashlight, regardless of any particularly good reason. I’m boggled into a stupor when someone says, “Oh? A flashlight? Um, uh, I think I may have one somewhere” then produces one of those barely glowing 99-cent, plastic, dime-store flashlights. How can you not have a flashlight, and probably have at least one in a pocket somewhere? Gads … it’s, it’s … un-American. I’ve been known to stand on my back deck at night — overlooking about six acres in our back “yard” — and shine flashlights into the dark in a constant contest of “which one is really best?” And I can never decide. “Hey Suzi, aw, c’mon, don’t roll your eyes, is this one just a bit brighter? Can you see that little rock better with this one (shining a light) or this one (shining another)? I could never decide who was the clear winner — until now. But it does have some, shall we say, “personal portability problems.” The Pelican 9430 Area Lighting System may just be the ultimate “keep it in the patrol car trunk” light. D T he 9430 is the master of all sorta’-portable lights for cops. You need to keep the term “portable” in an open-minded manner. This isn’t a “carry it on the belt” light, but more of a “keep it in the trunk for those times when you need to light the snot out of a place” lights. With about 2,000 (!) lumens of light, it not only wins the “light up Roy’s back yard” game but does a fair job of lighting up a grove of walnut trees about 300 yards away. And yes, we could see the little beady eyes of the furry woodland creatures way out there. Even Suzi didn’t roll her eyes too much. It’s got a built-in charging port and gives you a run time of up to 15 hours on the “low” setting, which is hardly less bright than the “high” setting. The light itself is a maintenance-free LED array that will only burn for some 50,000 hours. That’s only 5.7 years, so remember: if you leave it on 24 hours a day for six years, you might have to replace the light. The head rotates 360 degrees and is on an expandable mini-mast so you can pretty much aim this baby anywhere you need the light. There’s other goodies like a low-battery indicator, waterproof switch and a lock on that extension mast. Light a crime scene? No problem. We tried it in a pitch-black basement room and, well, you can see the results. aimed it in a room in our basement with all the lights off as if I’d have to light up a crime scene — and it did. I lit-up my tractor in a perfectly dark barn, and I could have rebuilt the engine with just the 9430 lighting things up. I also did a “could I carry this and use it as a flashlight” test and, well, it didn’t do so well in that test. But it might just be me and I need to work on upper-body strength. I’m thinking with enough duct tape I could probably rig a handy shoulder/waist/arm/wrist holder. Click, wham! The sizzling beam flashes into the front seat of a miscreants car as they shrink back, shocked and awed. “May I see your driver’s license please? Hell yes I can see it! Ha! Double ha!” They want this thing back and I’m trying to figure out a way to keep it. At about $800 it seems like it’s a lot, but if I amortize it over 20 years, that’s only, um, uh, er … $3.30 a month for a flashlight. Hell, that’s cheap. Hey Suzi … For More Info: www.pelican.com W WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 The Test I 162009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=17http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=17THE RUGER LCR THE EVOLUTION OF THE REVOLVER. Patent Pending Friction Reducing Cam is a next generation design in fire control systems with an optimized cam that results in a smooth, non-stacking trigger pull. Patent Pending Polymer Fire Control Housing holds all the fire control components in their proper dimensional relationships, reduces weight significantly, and helps reduce recoil. ® ™ Introducing the NEW Ruger Lightweight Compact Revolver (LCR), a 13.5 ounce, small frame revolver with a smooth, easy-to-control trigger and highly manageable recoil. Packed with the latest technological advances and features required by today’s most demanding shooters, it is the latest in the HARD-R™ family of products from Ruger. Monolithic Aluminum Frame which supports the cylinder and barrel is an aerospace grade, 7000 series forging treated with a black synergistic hard coat and is extremely lightweight and durable. High-Strength 400 Series Stainless Steel Cylinder is extensively fluted (reducing weight) and is treated to an advanced form of Ruger’s Target Grey ® finish for excellent durability. L I G H T W E I G H T C O M P A C T R E V O L V E R LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LCR ONLINE AT WWW.RUGER.COM/LCR www.ruger.com ©2009 Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=18http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=18CORRECTIONS BEHIND THE FENCE. BRIAN DAWE COpS OR NOT? tional officer will spend more time with convicted felons in two years than the average police officer will in a career — and 95 percent of us do it without any firearms. Correctional officers are outnumbered 60:1 — or worse — in most cases. Walk any tier, cellblock, chow hall or recreation yard and you’ll know very quickly just how badly we’re outnumbered. We maintain over 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States — some of whom are the most deviant criminals — yet many people still question the legitimacy of this profession. Are correctional officers law enforcement officers? Should they have the right to carry? Anyone who’s ever worked behind he walls of our nation’s prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers would find these questions unfathomable, and absurd. If we’re not law enforcement officers — what are we? B ad guys get locked up. Then who deals with them? We do — correctional officers, that is. But are they any less dangerous? We have powers of arrest while in the performance of our duties and are authorized to use deadly force. Forty thousand of us get assaulted, and nearly a dozen are killed in the line of duty every year. Police catch them, but we have to keep them. The average correc- Here Come Da Judge 95 percent of corrections officers are not armed. ccording to the U.S. Department of Justice — “Law enforcement officers include but are not limited to, police, corrections, probation, parole and judicial officers” (42 U.S.C. 3796). We’re now recognized and included on the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. We’re covered under the nation’s benefit programs for law enforcement officers killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty and several states have enacted similar legislation recognizing the vital role we play in law enforcement. So, we are law enforcement officers, right? Uh, er, if only it were that uncomplicated, and why is it so important at this point in our history? Thanks to the diligent work by the Law Enforcement Alliance of America over the last decade, HR 218, known as the “Right to Carry” law was enacted in August 2004. This law allows for active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed weapon across state lines while off duty as long as certain certification requirements are met. There’d been some questions about the law’s limitations; however a recent decision by the courts upheld the intent of the legislation as written. Yet, only 13 states convey some level of WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 A Brian Dawe is the Executive Director for The American Correctional Officer (www.americanco.org) and the American Correctional Officers Intelligence Network (www.COIntel.net). He can be reached at ACOIN1@aol.com or by calling him at 307-883-9707. 182009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=19http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=19peace officer status upon their correctional officers — Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah and Wyoming — and most of those states don’t confer full peace officer status to their officers on and off duty. This law’s an important tool for correctional officers so it’s important all members of my profession be afforded full peace officer status in every jurisdiction. The Awful Truth Over recent years we’ve seen an increase in the number of officers being assaulted or murdered off-duty as a result of their job behind the walls. The Internet and cell phones have made it easy to track down and find nearly anyone you want. Gangs and terrorists have national and international communications networks and they’re getting more sophisticated every day. According to the National Gang Task Force’s 2005 Threat Assessment report prison gangs are now ordering hits on correctional officers on the street from behind prison walls. An officer was murdered during a robbery in a mall parking lot when his attackers discovered he was a correctional officer. Another was gunned down at home, in front of his family because he’d placed a gang-banger in segregation the day before while on the job. An officer was shot while sitting on his front porch after a gang member recognized him from state prison and another officer was badly beaten outside a diner by an ex-con who recognized him. And these aren’t isolated incidents. We are law enforcement officers in every sense of the word. It’s time our nation took notice and politicians realize we put our lives on the line everyday to protect our communities. We should be afforded the appropriate respect and dignity that goes with such a sacrifice. Most importantly, we should be provided the tools needed to protect ourselves. All correctional officers must be afforded full peace officer status. Legislation should be enacted in every jurisdiction in the nation to address this issue. We must be allowed to protect our families and ourselves from the very people we protect society from everyday. * WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 192009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=20http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=20CARRY OPtIONs fROM hOlstERs tO hAvERsACks. MARK HANTEN T he recent attacks in Mombai are a clear reminder — terrorist threats are still a reality in our world. I’m a firm believer this type of coordinated multiple shooter attack is much more likely than a dirty bomb, or Chem/Bio attack. A couple of years ago, I was at a paintball field and there was a contingent of Middle Eastern folks chanting Muslim prayers in the parking lot in their camies. They were less than friendly and seemed to be training for something. Some of the 9/11 terrorists got their flight training nearby, so I called a couple of the local Feds and let them know about our paintball crew. I’m not really sure how it turned out, but it stuck with me. The one thing we can be sure of is more attacks are inevitable and we owe it to the public, our families, and ourselves to be prepared. Over the years, we’ve all seen a significant change in the philosophy of police training for active shooter attacks. One thing that hasn’t changed is when these attackers are motivated, the only way to stop them is to go find them, corner them and shoot them. Of course, we try to solicit their surrender, but for the truly motivated ones, we are the ones who must stop them. Thankfully, the weapons many patrol officers are currently carrying are substantially upgraded from what most of us had just a few years ago. Now we need to make sure we have the rest of the gear to stay in the fight. Two pieces of gear I really like for the patrol response to an Grab It And Go! Rifle Bandolier active shooter situation are the Rifle Bandolier and S.T.R.I.K.E. Bandolier by BLACKHAWK! I know, I’m assuming you have a patrol carbine at your disposal, and hopefully it’s equipped with a very quick and simple single point sling like SOG Armory’s ONE-Point Bungie Sling. The BLACKhAWK! S.T.R.I.K.E. Bandolier offers a wide range of options for outfitting your active shooter response rig. n an active shooter response, you’ll already have most of what you need with you. You’ll have your handgun, flashlight, cuffs and radio on your belt, so what you really need is your rifle and more bullets. That’s exactly what the Rifle Bandolier is all about — more ammo. It carries four 30-round AR magazines and two handgun magazines in an easy-to-throw over your head satchel you can grab in seconds. It’s the ideal grab-n-go ammo carrier. 20 I ome plain clothes assignments may have you in the field without a duty belt when the call comes out, so you may want a little more than ammo when you go charging into battle. The S.T.R.I.K.E. Bandolier offers versatility so you can WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 S The S.T.R.I.K.E. Bandolier2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=21http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=21here is the BLACKhAWK! Rifle bandolier with a full load of essential equipment (AMMO). outfit yourself appropriately considering your situation. The S.T.R.I.K.E. Bandolier is a configurable bandolier allowing for the attachment of any MOLLE gear pouches you may need. With BLACKHAWK!’s S.T.R.I.K.E. CQC Platform, you can easily add a handgun holster to the rig, or you can add any MOLLE or S.T.R.I.K.E. radio pouch, flashlight pouch and whatever configuration of ammo pouches suit your fancy. The big plus here is the wide range of options available to configure your ideal setup. More Later While these bandoliers offer great options for carrying critical additional gear into the fray, they’re just bandoliers. And for those of you without carbines, you might try BLACKHAWK!’s Shotgun Bandolier for use with your patrol shotgun. In an upcoming issue, I’ll address a couple of options for vests and plate carriers, which offer the ability to carry additional gear as well as offering the ballistic protection that could save your hide in a knockdown-drag-out gunfight with motivated terrorists. For More Info: www.blackhawk.com; www.sogarmory.com WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM   21 *2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=22http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=22pRIVATE sECURItY Ed PAlUMBO IssUEs ANd tRENds ON thE PRIvAtE sIdE Of lAW ENfORCEMENt. LesS safe c omments by the main authors of the principal blue ribbon commission that studied the 9/11 attacks, seem to indicate we’re still in trouble. The United States is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House failed to enact several strong security measures, according to Chairman Thomas Kean, former governor of Jersey. Along with (former) Congressman Lee Hamilton, Kean agreed, as a whole, people are no longer paying attention. Priorities have shifted. Several members of this commission went so far as to say the U.S. is less safe than it was before 9/11. Since the commission’s final report in 2004, the U.S. has enacted the centerpiece proposal creating a national intelligence directorate. This is the typical U.S. government solution to ANY problem — build a bigger and more expensive government. But we’ve stalled on other ideas, including improving communication among emergency responders and j n the sub-continent these days, the en vogue phrase is “post 26/11,” deployed to reference significant consequences of the Mumbai hotel terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008 (we would phrase it 11/26). Hundreds, maybe thousands of articles appeared in almost every Indian newspaper the morning after the deadly attacks against that nation’s premier business destinations, describing all that was known to be wrong before, and all that would change in the “post 26/11” world. India is a wondrously literate place with so many newspapers; it’s easier to categorize them by language. There are 13 Hindi language dailies alone. 26/11 sounds suspiciously like our own “post 9/11” appellation, still applied to a whole host of ideas, programs, initiatives, conversations, centered on a base assertion — hope, more accurately — that things would indeed have changed, and for the better. To be fair, some things have gotten markedly better, as we’ve not had a major terrorism incident in our homeland since 9/11, but how much of this is just luck? Viewed from a private security management perspective, we hope the people of India have somewhat better luck in their post 26/11-world than we’ve enjoyed in ours. Much of the post-9/11 fervor for greater and smarter and more efficient security programs — public and private alike — has dissipated. O shifting federal terrorism-fighting money so it goes to states based on risk level. There’s clearly a fading sense of urgency. One can recognize in India now the same language we spoke just after 9/11, as it’s applied politically and within academic, media and corporate cultures, describing a new willingness to broach any and all solutions. Risk management has become a major priority after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks (which killed 179 people and have been blamed on Pakistan-based militants). Previously, security was not a priority, whether from the government perspective of national security concerns, or for many private entities. Now, though, companies are making it a priority and are conscious they need to allocate more time and money to it. Well, so far. Both the Taj Mahal and Trident hotels, scenes of horrific violence, have hired the same Israeli security firm to provide such specialized security services as psychological profiling, maritime security, and counter-terrorism training by former armed forces officers and intelligence experts. This same outfit recently established a joint venture with an India-based security firm to provide security to the Continued on page 62 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 222009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=23http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=232009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=24http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=24OFFICER sURvIvAl JOhN RUssO Contact and Cover W e’ve been trained in the art of contact and cover for three decades now, since its creation in San Diego following the fateful Grape Street Park incident. On September 14, 1984, San Diego PD Officers Tim Ruopp and Kim Tonahill were murdered near Balboa Park, by that coward Joselito Cinco. Yet after all this time, I still see officers violate GEttING hOME IN thE sAME CONdItION YOU WENt tO WORk IN. We Do It For A Reason If you were covering this officer, where would you be looking? You can maintain concentration on the stop, but keep an overview of your surroundings. e all know the big no-no’s: two officers, each searching suspects at the same time; one writes a ticket while the other searches a car; a single officer searching the car while the suspect is left alone at the curb. Let’s be honest too, these are things we’ve seen and probably done ourselves and knew them to be obvious “not to dos.” How about the not so obvious? Like being the cover officer on a pedestrian stop and spending all your time focused on the suspect your partner is dealing with. This is one we hear about far too often. Remind yourself to watch 360 degrees. Threats have a way of coming from where you least expect it, so look around you at areas you may not have thought of. While on this point, how far away are you looking? We often forget bad guys have long guns too. Don’t limit your scanning to right around you but rather as far as you can see. Also, look up and down. Bad guys hide under cars and climb onto rooftops. What about traffic hazards? We get so worried about someone shooting us we forget about the bad driver who veers into us as we handle our business on the sidewalk. W You Know The Rules the basic tenets of contact and cover. It seems each new generation of officers finds ways to convince themselves, “it won’t happen to me.” Let’s honor the memory of our fallen officers by learning from their great sacrifice. N ow and then we get an incident where multiple officers are dealing with a violent suspect. It’s easy for each officer to feel they need to focus on the suspect due to his level of violence. But it takes a calm, confident officer to recognize the situation and step back to handle scene security. Remember, however, to communicate this to your fellow officers. Speaking of communication, how many contact and cover errors result from a lack of it? Too often officers assume their partner knows what they’re doing or dealing with and are then surprised when they fail to act/react to something. Don’t put each other in this position. If you’re worried about tipping the suspect off to your tactics, come up with a series of code words or phrases. Remember, officer safety is like building an engine. You have a plan, put the pieces together, and then start fine-tuning it until it works the way it should. As any car buff knows, it always needs a little extra tweaking. Your officer safety should be the same way: you were given the plan and put the pieces together in the academy. Now for the rest of your career, you just need to keep fine-tuning it. This is what makes you a winner, not just a survivor. Stay safe and go home a winner. DON’T JuST Jump IN * Contact and Cover: remember, one officer makes the contact and one officer covers. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 242009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=25http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=25LOSE SIGHT FOR A SECOND AND YOU’RE OUT OF THE FIGHT 4 PM. STOLEN CAR. You need to see everything. everything The shine of a knife, the glint of a gun. You need to see their hands. Good thing your sunglasses aren’t just sunglasses. They’re Revision Hellfly. Made by the leader in ballistic eyewear for the military worldwide. And Hellfly is made for you. High impact protection, state of the art optics, 100% UV and wraparound lenses to keep you covered on all sides. All under one ounce. So you’re ready for the worst, ready with the best. That’s Revision Ready. PROVEN UNDER FIRE* “Any situation can turn bad, quick… Why take a chance with anything other than Revision. 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I looked down and saw my lower pant leg was shredded and bright red blood was soaking it. My W blowout kit was on my vest and I was able to get the tourniquet out. I put it on above my knee and cranked it down until the blood stopped flowing. My teammates were scattered around returning fire. I found my M-4, pulled myself up and got back into the fight. This incident happened to my friend. It took place on a road outside of Ramadi, Iraq, but it could’ve been just about anywhere. Before you shake your head and say, “that couldn’t happen here” let me Paul didn’t lose his leg when he practiced, neither will you. 26 emember the ABCs of first aid? In case you forgot, here’s a very short reminder; Airway (open it), Breathing (ensure they’re breathing) and Circulation (is there a pulse, are they bleeding). This isn’t about First Aid ABCs — this is about severe wounds, the kind of wounds that make you say all sorts of profanity in your rush to save a life. During severe trauma situations where a major bleed is likely, such as vehicle crashes, gunshot wounds, explosions, etc. failure to address these wounds appropriately and swiftly can prove fatal very quickly. If a major artery is severed a person can bleed to death in mere minutes — I don’t mean 10 or 15 minutes — I mean two or three. For many years conventional medical wisdom was a WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 R The LasT Resort? x remind you of the 1997 North Hollywood Bank Robbery. Severely wounded officers were scattered all around and bleeding out while the firefight raged on. While location is relative, the trauma is the same. A 7.62mm gunshot wound in Iraq or Afghanistan is no different than one in Detroit, Chicago, or L.A. Bleeding to death on the street in Miami is the same as bleeding to death on a dirt road in Baghdad.2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=27http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=27tourniquet should only be applied as a last resort after all other means had failed. First, you’d check the victim’s airway and establish they’re breathing. Next you’d check for bleeding. Upon discovery of one or more wounds you’d apply whatever bandages were available. If that didn’t work you’d apply direct pressure to a corresponding pressure point. If that didn’t work then you’d reluctantly apply a tourniquet. The old thinking was the application of a tourniquet would result in the amputation of a limb. It’s what I learned in basic first aid as a young Marine in the 1980s and then later in the police academy. I don’t know. Pick your poison — bleed to death or lose a limb. The U.S. Army finally conducted a study on the use of tourniquets. What they found was soldier’s who received advanced medical treatment — trauma surgery — within two hours of the application of a tourniquet, suffered no permanent damage. That’s great news for you and me. Do you work within two hours of a trauma center? If you do, then you should have a tourniquet in your gear bag. Better yet, you should actually carry it with you. Tourniquet Solution Along with dispelling the belief tourniquets were bad, the Army tested numerous commercially made devices. One of those is the C-A-T by North American Rescue; they’re one of only two brands of tourniquets issued to every U.S. Army soldier going into combat. C-A-T is short for Combat Application Tourniquet. I have personal experience with these and they’re the ones I use when teaching military students. They’re easy to use and effective. You can put them on yourself with one hand — pretty important if you’re the one in need of the tourniquet. The C-AT comes in black or bright orange and there’s an all blue trainer. The best part is they cost less than $30 and take up little space. At the very least you should have one in your first aid kit — even better — have it on you. Think of it like your armor; you never want to use it, but you’re damn glad it’s there when you need it. * For More Info: www.narescue.com WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 272009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=28http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=28RESERVES PERRY W. hORNBARGER dEdICAtION ANd PROfEssIONAlIsM thAt GOEs BEYONd PAY. WHO’S IN T Silver Badge: here’s silver on the chest of a full-time sworn officer. CHARGE? B Make a Decision his question comes up occasionally, when in reality, it never should. Unless you happen to have the formal training and the street savvy of a veteran officer who’s out there five or so nights a week, the regular officer is always in charge. Does this mean the average reserve officer can’t perform the job adequately? I certainly hope not. Does this mean the regular officer always knows the right way to get the job done? Not necessarily, but they still hold the responsibility for their decisions and the actions taken on a call. A wise street officer will use whatever knowledge is at hand to help him make a decision. Just because a reserve officer may not have had the formal training — and presumably hasn’t been in a coma for their entire career — they may have seen this situation before and can offer some sound advice. The wise old reserve officer who’s been out there for 20 or 30 years just may be the go-to guy. ut deciding who’s in charge is something that needs to be understood up front. Arriving at a call is not the time to decide. Having said that, whoever’s not in charge should still do their job; providing good cover (read Russo’s Officer Survival column in this issue about Contact and Cover). Recently on the Internet I watched a tragic video. It showed two officers being killed by an assailant who seemed to be nothing more than a by-stander. I don’t know the details of the clip, but it seemed there must’ve been some misunderstanding of who was in charge. I watched the clip over and over, and Patches and names: what do the colors mean? Who is a thought, “what if I was that second officer, would I “regular” and who is a reserve? Is silver tops — or gold? do the right thing?” We should always try to second The public has no idea. guess ourselves and do a mental post-action review — and if we’re smart enough — learn something from it. One end up in the same situation. Remember, even if you’re not of my greatest fears as a unit commander is wondering if one in charge, you still have an important job to do: watch your of my people wouldn’t do their job as a cover officer and partner's back. W 28 hen our unit switched from a special police unit to an auxiliary unit in 2004, we changed uniforms to the same uniform as every other county officer. Only the badges and patches are different. With the old “different” uniform, required by state code, all the supervisors wore the standard rank insignias — Captain, Lieutenant and Sergeant. With the new uniform, Uniformly Confusing the department took our rank insignias away and changed from the standard rank structure to position designations. I went from Captain to Unit Commander, Auxiliary Lieutenant became Squad Leader, you get the idea. While this was a source of discontent among my staff, we all realized the average person doesn’t necessarily look at the patch or badge; they saw the same uniform and rank insignia and most people, with or with a military back- ground, recognized that. I understood why the department felt the need to do this. I commented to our department liaison on more than one occasion that “the last person I want to be confused with on a call is the person in charge.” I still stick by that quote today with the understanding I am an Auxiliary Officer and my job is to assist the officer on the street do his job by doing what I can and watching their back. * Perry W. Hornbarger is the Unit Commander of the Chesterfield, VA Auxiliary Police Unit. He can be reached at hornbargerp@yahoo.com. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=29http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=292009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=30http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=30EVOC ANthONY RICCI sURvIvING IN YOUR MOBIlE OffICE. his isn’t about stealing overtime shifts, sorry. Not that extra “green”. Along with operating Advanced Driving & Security Inc., I am currently the Rider Coach Trainer for Rhode Island’s Rider Education Program (RIREP). As part of my duties for this program I was tasked with helping the Providence Police train several of their officers on the Vectrix Personal Electric Vehicle. Like many departments Providence was looking to save on fuel costs while enhancing their ability to reduce crime. Major Steven Melaragno of the Providence Police Think ExTra “GrEEn” For 2009 T he company was founded in 1996 with one objective — to provide clean, efficient, reliable and affordable inner-city transportation. Okay, so that’s about four objectives, but after a decade, the engineers and designers worked to create a 100-percent electric vehicle that not only had style, but performance. The result was the Vectrix VX-1, a zeroemission vehicle — no gas, no oil and no compromise. This highway and freeway-legal vehicle tops out at 62 MPH and accelerates from 0-50 mph in 6.8 seconds. Okay, so it’s not intended as a pursuit vehicle but those stats are pretty impressive for electric power. That’s the equivalent to some 400cc motorcycles. Think of the additional law enforcement benefits too. No gas and oil means it can be used indoors, great for patrolling large stadiums or any special event. It’s virtually silent as Detective Derek Siconolfi of NYPD points out, “it allows you to easily sneak up on somebody, giving you the element of surprise”. It also allows the rider a unique rapid-deployment capability. This actually worked in Providence where Major Melaragno told me one of his officers interrupted a drug deal in progress and was able to make the arrest. It’s excellent in traffic, parades, and can patrol areas not accessible to cruisers. Its quick acceleration and Department who lead this training effort explains, “we were looking at the Vectrix as a means to expand the boundaries of neighborhood foot patrols.” So I figured, not a problem. I can be a scooter tutor. I won’t lie though, at first I laughed at the officers who were selected for this project. I mean — they weren’t motor officers after all — just scooter puppies, right? Well, I had to apologize to them since I was quite surprised by the Vectrix. It’s not a scooter; it’s in a class of its own, offering many options for police work beyond fuel and cost efficiency. X T 30 Vectrix Matrix nimble handling make it easy and safe to navigate through heavy city traffic, and the Brembo brake system makes stopping an easy task. I tested the VX-1 prior to setting up the training class and I was impressed with the excellent handling due to the low center of gravity, rigid chassis and balanced weight distribution. The 515 pound machine is distributed Continued on page 50 Anthony Ricci is the owner and president of Advanced Driving and Security (ADSI). He’s been teaching cops to drive for over 10 years. www.1adsi.com. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=31http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=312009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=32http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=32STREET LEVEL JOhN MORRIsON sTRAIGhT TALK ON sUPERVIsION & LEADERshIP ON ThE FRONT LINEs — ThE sTREETs. John Morrison Editors Note: “Due to the many requests we’ve had, we’re proud to re-print John Morrison’s memorable words from our first issue on why we do this job.” This badge, this shield, this sharp pointed star – haven’t you carried it long enough? Too long? Why carry on? Y ou eat your dinner out of a greasy paper sack with a clown’s face on it at 0300, absent-mindedly wondering how much of that crap is sticking to your thought you were through too at that child-murder scene when you found the kid’s doll where it fell behind the dumpster, and your guts went cold with the knowledge it would never be played with again, not by that little girl, oh, no. Never. You’ve fought ex-cons, ex-priests, ex-linebackers, an ex-cop gone over to the dark side, and, you’d swear before God, exhumans. You’ve been shot at and missed, shit at and hit, spit on by scumbags and cursed by cowards, pissed on by politicians and pissed off by people who call themselves “your superior officers.” You’ve fought for your life, fought for your buddies, fought to keep your sanity intact and your family whole, and fought the almost overwhelming urge to reach out and squeeze a neck ten years overdue for a throttling or bust a nose that’s been stuck much too high in the air for far too long and too arrogantly. You’ve come home from life-sucking long shifts, nights that put the “grave” in graveyard shift, scraped your nails until they bled and scrubbed your skin ’til it shone, and found sometimes there’s something — something — that just won’t wash away. So why the hell would you carry on? coronary arteries. You couldn’t count the cups of bad, burnt coffee you’ve started on hot, then returned to finish cold after a call that could have been better handled by a shaved ape than by a ten-year veteran with two units to go on a bachelor’s in criminal justice. You hose wino-barf off your boots in a closed gas station, shaking your head at the odor rising from the back seat. Oh, yeah, you know that smell, all right — the stench of booze-laced human feces — know it with the same familiarity you know the smell of fresh fear, stale sweat, bodies in various stages of returning-to-dust; burning rubber, burning dope, burning flesh. Sometimes when people say, “I’m sure you’ve seen it all,” you’re thinking, “and even worse, I’ve smelled it all.” You’ve stood on the porch side of a screen door so grimyopaque with dirt and fly-specks you couldn’t see a thing, moved closer to hear whether that was a cry for help — then jumped back when an 11" butcher knife stabbed viciously through, slicing off the shirt button just above your belt buckle, reminding you why you wear body armor in 110-degree heat. You’ve reached in pockets on searches and found chewed gum, snot-filled rags, broken glass vials, unexplained rolls of crisp new fifties, two mummified fingers though your suspect still had all ten of his own, an equally mummified turd the Babbling Man claimed was his “pet,” and uncovered hypodermic needles — the hard way. You thought you were through cleaning up at that multi-fatal accident scene when you saw the lump on the pavement and it took you a long ten-count to realize it was a man’s testicle. You You’ve learned justice doesn’t come from courts — not often enough to make it more than an occasional fairy tale come true, anyway — and the only two kinds of real justice left are street and poetic. You’ve learned virtually everyone above and below you in the social spiral violates the law regularly, then perjures themselves about it with impunity. You’ve learned truth can’t be bought, but lies can be paid for. You’ve learned losing a fight doesn’t mean losing your fighting spirit, and in this life — our life — every time you see the sun rise it means you’re a winner. You know the difference between a hard guy and a tough guy; that “hard” is all on the surface, brittle and thin, but “tough”2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=33http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=33in pain. Men like me; not these kids. The motorcade rolls, hissing on the same pavement that soaked up that young cop’s blood. White gloves are raised in a slow, final salute. Pipers blow a mournful, haunting dirge, and someone, weeping, is gently handed a folded flag. Backing away — in more ways than one — we stand in the wind and smoke in silence. Goodbye … Why? Why carry on? It’s How We’re Wired “I’ll have your badge” couldn’t lift your badge, much less bear it with honor. You’ve learned citizens spend decades screwing up their lives, then expect you to solve their self-created problems in 15 minutes; that they’ll let their children run wild and become monsters, then call you to control them. You’ve learned you can only expect humans to be human; that is, scared, scarred, confused and irrational, and you can never, ever expect those humans to be humane. You’ve learned new definitions of “friends;” that some may stand behind you when times are hard, but the ones who really count will stand beside you when things go deadly-dark and terminally serious — and sometimes, those truest of true friends are those you hardly know, and share only one thing with: you both wear the badge, and you both carry on. You’ve learned no matter how high you stack the deck or how heavy you load the dice; no matter how welltrained, weapons-skilled, fit and prepared you are, there are some bullets with your name on ’em, and others addressed “To Whom It May Concern;” that you can lose and die, dropped like a box of rocks in a gravel parking lot; and it has nothing to do with good and evil, right or wrong, just winning and losing. If you roll the dice often enough, they’ll run against you. Dice are cruel that way. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM And when they turned against your partners, you learned to say goodbye. Oh, God, yes, we’re good at saying goodbye. This life offers the cheapest, ugliest deaths and the most opulent, gaudy funerals. Dress uniforms are pulled from You can’t be a cop just because you need a job. You can’t be a peace officer because it’s a steady paycheck and benefits. Not a real cop; not a true peace officer. You can’t do it “to help people,” or “for the nobility of public service.” That’s a load of crap. Those are just excuses, and they wear thin, turn pale. You don’t enforce the law because “it is necessary to the security of a democratic society,” or because you burn with fervent belief in The Rule of Law. Screw the law. You don’t cleave to the truth on the witness stand while all others lie their asses off because you fear punishment for perjury. Screw fear; piss on punishment. No cop ever sprinted across a bullet-swept parking lot to scoop-and-drag the crossfire victim of a gang turf battle “for love of his fellow citizens.” To hell with that. You do it for love and law, all right, but it is love of courage, duty and honor; for a law, but that law is your code, and that code is one of courage, duty and honor. Your code demands you enforce and obey the law; to protect and serve without fear or favor; to run into danger when others flee; to stand and deliver where others falter and fail. And you do it because you can’t help it. It’s stamped in your genes, burned into your DNA like a bar code. In another time, another place, you would have been samurai, knight-errant, warrior-monk, Minuteman. You may not be happy as a modern American cop, but you’d be miserable doing anything else. If any of this doesn’t ring true for you, then get the hell out now and go sell insurance or install cabinets or something. They can be honorable trades, and you can be a good citizen, but not a real cop, not a true peace officer. If wailing sirens are playing your song; if you nodded and muttered, “damn right …” when you read these words, then you’re one of us, and American COP will stand and deliver with you. Because we’ve been there, and done that — because it’s who we are and how we’re wired too. “ I’m sure you’ve seen it all2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=34http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=34Clint Smith Photos: Robbie Barrkman Photo : Heidi Smith In Clint’s hands, the Noveske proved to be a reliable platform. Federal 40 grain Nosler Vshok CorBon 55 grain BlitzKing CorBon 53 grain DPX M193 Ball M855 Ball 100 yaRd 5-ShoT gRoupS (inchES) 3/4 1/2 1 2 1 1/2 34 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 KKK KKKK KK KKKKKK KKKKK KKKKK2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=35http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=35The "Light" Patrol Rifle N4 KKKKK KK KK Noveske ontrary to popular belief, a heavy rifle is no more accurate simply because it’s heavy or has a long barrel. Thinking a 16lb. AR platform will “save my life” is also not always true. Like it or not — street cops are more like infantrymen than they’re willing to admit. They carry new gear for a while, but if it’s not used every day it ends up in the trunk. Even worse is when administrators have cops carry rifles in car trunks. That way, when they’re engaged in a raging gun battle they have to retrieve said rifle from the trunk — great. Remember the FBI vs. Platt and Mattox shoot out? I rest my case. We know as soon as a cop gets killed all the training improves for a few months until, in theory, whatever tactics or equipment issues involved are addressed. Or, more likely, until they become bored or lazy again. Sometimes we even put the need to wear fancy, detective-type clothes above wearing body armor. In that Armani suit, is it better to look good than be good? Deep down we know better. KK KKK KK KKKKK KKKKK KKK K C WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 352009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=36http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=36noveske n4 n42009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=37http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=372009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=38http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=38KKKKK KK Photo : Heidi Smith Noveske N4 rifle has solid design elements making it a reliable patrol rifle. We also know this damn AR riflething is heavy because a crap-load of “stuff’ is so often stuck onto them. This excess of equipment is an attempt to compensate for a lack of skill. The mere possession of a patrol rifle by a police officer does not equate to competency — it simply means the cop has a rifle. Competency has yet to be determined. The Real Problems A rifle needs to be lightweight so cops will actually carry it. Whether using iron sights, scopes, lasers, tasers and the like, cops must also be able to see the target well enough to hit it. And finally, cops need to be able to hit the target. It sounds simple enough, so what would we actually need on a rifle to be able to accomplish these three tasks? After all the years of complaining about AR platforms getting heavier, someone — John Noveske — has made a light rifle that really works. Even better, this rifle is outside the custom rifle forum and therefore won’t break the bank. Most AR’s are parts-guns of a sort, but this one isn’t. It’s not assembled from junk stuff either. The upper and lower are made for each other from the beginning, and yet the cost is well within a standard rifle price range. I think John might be onto something here. John Noveske, the man behind Noveske Rifle Works, recently spent time with me here at the ranch and explained the new N4 Light Carbine and how it’s put together. I reviewed the low profile configuration bearing a 10" free-floating hand guard an- Lights from SureFire and Streamlight were tested with the Noveske. Photo : Heidi Smith 38 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=39http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=39Photo : Heidi Smith The Noveske “proof” mark confirms the rifle upper and lower were crafted as one unit. chored with six Kong-like screws and a 1913 rail for attachments. The N4 has the low profile gas block system under the hand guard, and the 1913 rail on top sports a flip-up front and rear sight system. The 14.5" cold hammer-forged barrel with a 1-in-7" twist is permanently fitted with a Vortex flash hider. The spot weld modestly shows so there can never be a question it’s WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM KK KKKKK Continued on page 52 39 on to stay — keeping it legal under the short barrel length NFA rules. Instead of all the goofy M203 mounting bulges like an M4, the N4 barrel is slick — and tough. It’s the same quality barrel used for the M249 machinegun, chrome lining steel and all. The N4 also mounts a solid Vltor butt stock and a rendition of the old Duck Bill pistol grip (from Tango Down) that keeps the trigger guard from gouging your middle finger of the firing hand. The Vltor stock and hand guard are both set up to take the QD100 quick-detach sling swivels and allows everything from a standard carry strap to a Vicker’s-type tactical sling. So there’s an example of a light rifle. I mounted a Leupold 3x9 30mm scope for targeting, and the groups and ammo were fired from a bench rest position. I was testing the N4 — not me — I already know the N4 shoots better than I do. It appears the better the ammunition the better groups, and that of course makes2009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=40http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=40Suiting up your SurveillanCe vehiCle nick adams An “Ed Stock” action figure keeps a keen eye open, while this officer — on a deepcover surveillance — shows how an experienced cop can handle a difficult situation. C ops admire certain achievements; the guy who makes the most arrests, seizes the most dope or manages to pull over ANYTHING on management. But in my book, there’s one guy who truly achieves greatness — the guy who can take his car and make it his home. Let’s face it we live in our cars, and nowhere is this truer than plainclothes guys on surveillance. You may be sitting in the same vehicle for 20 hours straight. You may not make it home for three days. The smell in your car and the back of your gym locker may be indistinguishable. I learned long ago you can suffer through a surveillance — or you can thrive through it. Here’s all you need. The Basics Whatever vehicle you’re assigned, make sure the heater and air conditioner work. This may require you buy a 12-pack of beer for the vehicle maintenance tech, but it’s money well spent. Lights and siren are a plus. If you have a car-mounted radio, try to get it mounted under the seat and hide the microphone. Nowadays, if you can get a dash-mounted GPS, they’re a godsend, especially if your 40 surveillance takes you into areas you don’t know. Next, you need your basic car emergency kit — like any other vehicle. Make sure there are a spare tire, jumper cables, lug wrench and jack, and maybe even a tow strap. This kit may also include an extra quart of oil and some brake fluid, depending on how big of a piece of shit your unmarked car is. I usually throw in a couple screwdrivers, WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=41http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=41Can you say ‘Porta Potty?’ If you’re going first-class and have a van with a curtain, well, here you go. Ladies, are you paying attention? pliers and a folding shovel. Getting stuck in the mud, even in the city, isn’t uncommon. What’s Up Doc? Be prepared for any medical emergencies; surveillances have a nasty way of going south — fast. Have a first-aid kit or medical bag with you. It doesn’t have to be huge or complicated; you’re not going to be operating on anyone’s spleen out there, but you just might need something to plug a bullet hole and keep pressure on it until you get the person to the hospital or the ambulance arrives. Do you have a tourniquet or a quick-clot agent? It’s only your partner’s or your life that might depend on it. Something as simple as aspirin or Ibuprofen is often overlooked. It’s good for that headache you’re bound to get trying hard not to fall asleep, or the aches and pains caused from sitting for long hours. Heck, it might be needed for that wicked hangover from the previous night. No Lace Chonies Clothing is one area where most officers under-prepare. Make sure you have at least one change of normal clothes including shoes, socks and underwear. Do you have cold weather clothing with you? Your surveillance might start on a warm, sunny day but it can get really cold when night falls — or you may have to follow your target into an area with a cooler climate. Keep a jacket, warm hat and gloves available. Speak- Nope, it’s not just an empty bottle, it just may be your savior at o-dark thirty and you can’t get out of the car to winky. We prefer Gatorade bottles for the, um, uh, bigger opening. ing of night — do you wear glasses? Did you remember to bring them? Put all these things in a small travel bag along with some deodorant, a toothbrush and toothpaste — you know, basic toiletries. When you haven’t been home in a few days, a shower at a truck stop or a friendly local P.D. and a change of clothes can make a huge difference to your outlook on life. Get a zip-up garment bag and put a sports coat, white shirt and a tie in there. You never know when you’ll get called to court at the last minute. I’ve testified wearing jeans and cowboy boots before, but at least I had the jacket and tie so the judge let it slide. Now here’s a real lifesaver. Have an old duffel bag with a set of torn, stained BDUs, a ratty T-shirt and old sneakers. Why, you ask? If I ever put them on, I know when I’m done wearing them they’ll be going directly into the trash. Sometimes a surveillance ends in a search warrant and I’ve found myself crawling through dog poop — Some “accidentally” left beer (and don’t be chintzy here with “white label”) at the police garage may help to assure some, um, cooperation from the staff there so you get just what you need when going out to fight crime. Bribery? You bet. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 412009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=42http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=42get back to business, then you’re on crack. Yet for some reason, evev ery cop I know carries an extra box of bullets. The only time I have ever used my box was to reload my magamaga zine after a shooting contest at a road sign on a slow midnight shift. Other Stuff Of course there are a few tools surveillance demands: pen, notepad, binoc’s, radio charger, phone charger, digital camera and night vision if your department has some. Finally we come to the specialty items. These are the items normal uniform cops probably don’t need. These are the things that elevate a basic investigator into a sursur veillance king. It used to be tapes, then CD’s. Now it is an MP3 player, preferprefer ably you can hook directly into your car’s speakers. A bottle of No Doz in the glove box can be handy, but I prefer copious amounts of coffee. If you want to be the envy of everyone, find one of the coffee cups that plug into your cigarette outlet. If you want to be a God, Two critical items: A GPS to get your sorry-lost self back on track and goodies to keep your fighting energy up. Note the “Help Me” icon on the screen — might come in handy. please let it only be dog poop — under the world’s nastiest single-wide looking for the stash, so I speak from experience on the need for throw-away clothes. ‘Nuf said. It’s All In The Bag Next comes the go-to-hell-bag. The Border Patrol calls it a tricky bag, while others call it a patrol bag or a raid bag. As a plains clothes guy, you probably have your pistol and a badge somewhere on you. Most of the time, that’s all you need. But the likelihood of helping serve a warrant on any given day is pretty fair. You ought to have more than just a badge around your neck before you kick in a door. In my raid bag I keep a raid belt with holster, magazines, cuffs, collapsible baton and a flashlight. It also has my vest that is marked “Police” on the front and back. I have a Kevlar helmet I never wear, but they issued it so I carry it around. Honestly, I don’t know why. My raid headgear is usually a ball cap. Then there are gloves, clear plastic glasses (don’t laugh, you get something in your eye and see how much help you are), spare batteries, extra cuffs, belly chains and leg irons. The last are handy if you have to transport some idiot and you’re by yourself. Some guys will also throw in elbow and knee pads. Finally you need spare ammo. But let me qualify that! You need spare ammo inside of magazines. Spare ammo inside of ammo boxes is useless. If you think there will be a pause in the gunfight long enough for you to waltz back to your car, bust out a box of bullets, load up your empty magazines and 42 Gunsite’s kit is more than band-aids and iodine. From a tourniquet and QuikClot to airways, chest seals, gloves, wound dressings and a quick-look instruction card, this may keep someone alive until the cavalry gets there. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=43http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=43A raid vest is a good idea, but so is a well-thought-out first trauma kit like this one from Gunsite. Called an “Advanced Trauma Kit” it’s available from their pro-shop. www.gunsite.com figure out how to make an espresso machine portable. Always keep water and some snacks hidden. I recommend nothing that will melt or crush easily. Power bars are good. I usually have an MRE just in case things get really desperdesper ate. An extra $10 or a debit card for a trip through the drive-through beats everyevery thing else. An empty Gatorade bottle under the seat is critical. If you have the eye on a fixed surveillance, you aren’t going anywhere. When nature calls — nature calls. Gatorade bottles have a wide mouth and are easy to hit. McDonald’s cups work in a pinch, but after you have had the bottom fall out of one and had to sit in a puddle of your own urine for six hours, you will endorse plastic bottles. The voice of experience. Oh, and I always keep a large foldout map to put across my lap when I have to use the Gatorade bottle in a crowded parking lot. Apart from occasional performance anxiety, it works like a charm. And you won’t get lost. Ladies? You’re on your own here. Next comes the little DVD player or PlayStation Portable (PSP). Hey, if you don’t have the eye and you are a block away, you’ll have plenty of time to hit pause before jumping back into the surveillance. A little book light and stack of old American COP magazines can also pass the time. Finally, throw in a football or a baseball and glove. If you are a dedicated surveillance team, sooner or later you and your crew will sit around in a park or empty parking lot waiting for the call to go someplace and start following someone. Playing catch while you’re getting paid is even more fun now than when you did it for free. Finally, no matter how easy you make your life, always tell the boss it was “hell” and the only reason you keep doing it is to support the team. Don’t let him see you smile. * Bring extra ammo, loaded into magazines, not tossed in your gear bag in boxes. If you need it, you need it now. Note the .375 H&H — hey, you never know. Don’t scrimp on glass either. Hours spent with your eyes to a pair of binocs or scope will quickly tell the difference between good quality optics and junk. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 432009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=44http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=44Mark Hanten t a h T y l i m a The F The probes work just like the “big” police TASER units. Not the “confetti” tags. The C2 will give you and your loved ones added security and peace of mind for those times when you can’t be there to protect them with your 1911 — and they’re not able to carry theirs. I ’ve had some unpleasant experiences in my 47 years, but right near the top is taking a threesecond blast from a TASER in a class put on by certified TASER instructors. Being TASEd is encouraged by many instructors so the students can better understand the effectiveness of the TASER and know, firsthand, just how powerful of a tool it can be. Even though it’s very controlled in the classroom, most people have seen enough YouTube videos about TASERs to know they don’t want any part of it. I wouldn’t have either, but I was planning on teaching my fam- ily how to use the new TASER C2 and I really wanted to know if I could fight through it at all. Simply put — NO — I couldn’t, and the way I see it, no one can if it’s properly deployed. It isn’t a matter of fighting through pain. It’s a completely physiological response where the person being TASEd loses control of his nervous system and can’t control his muscles. TASER International calls this Neuromuscular Incapacitation (NMI). When someone standing is TASEd properly, he falls down. When he falls, he’s so incapacitated he can’t even put his hands out, so basically, he falls flat on his face or back depending upon where his momentum is headed. The only residual “injuries” from the TASER might be a couple of small burns from the entry and exit of the electrical pulses — but the fall — that’s another story. How's It Work? In a nutshell, upon activation, the TASER C2 launches two barbed probes, which remain connected to the device by lightweight insulated electrical wires. The probes are launched by compressed nitrogen gas. The wires are 15 feet long, allowing for the deployment of the probes from up to that distance from the intended subject. Simultaneous with the launching of the probes, the TASER C2 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 2009 Both the LED and the laser are excellent features of the C2 Taser. The laser alone will stop most confrontations before they get started. Crooks hate that little red dot dancing around on their chest. 442009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=45http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=45— r e h t e g o T TASEs r e h t e g o T s Stay His and hers C2 TASERs are shown here in Electric Blue and Fashion Pink. Other designer colors are available including Desert Camo, Leopard and Metallic Pink to name a few. After deploying the probes, the C2 can still be used to “Drive Stun” an assailant like a conventional stun-gun type device. transmits electrical pulses along the wires into the body of the subject. The electrical pulses will penetrate up to a total of 2" of clothing (up to 1" per probe) and overstimulate the central nervous system of the subject, causing overwhelming incapacitation — and then they fall down. It’s Electrifying Fifty thousand volts is a lot of juice, but WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM as any electrician will tell you, “It’s the amps that kill you.” The static electricity released when you get shocked after walking across the carpet in your socks is measured in the ten of thousands of volts too, but it doesn’t kill anybody either. TASER International has spent a boat-load of money testing this technology to ensure it will not inadvertently kill the subject who it’s deployed against. They have a lot riding on it and so do you — there’s an attorney attached to the barbs every time you fire it. In a few isolated cases there have been highly publicized fatal encounters. In each of these encounters, there have been other factors involved — here’s the no-brainer — most often related to substance abuse. As for heart patients, modern pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators withstand external electri- cal defibrillators at least 800 times stronger than the conducted energy pulses of the TASER. These devices are a very safe alternative to deadly force when you either can’t carry a gun, or can’t justify deadly force based on the level of threat you’re currently facing. And, they make perfect tools for you to carry off-duty. So, TASERs work. In fact, they work so well, I think we’ll see a significant spike in their use as defensive tools as people start to realize TASERs are available to them, are relatively easy to use, and are more effective than ever imagined. For years now, TASER International has developed their products primarily as law enforcement tools. They’ve been so successful as a force-option to police officers, it only makes sense to share this amazing technology with citizens who want to take some level of responsibility for their own protection. In most places in the United States, TASERs are legal Continued on page 60 452009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=46http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=46The "Real" Geek Squad (Part II) It’s not corny — a new breed of cop exists who are comfortable riding the Internet highways and byways on the prowl for cyber-criminals. It’s Saturday morning TV only for real, and they keep our country safe. The FBI FBI’ ’s ’ s Internet Crime Complaint Center Jon Holloway Cartoons: Chris Ruiz The gateway to crime? Computers around the world can link, conceal identities and offer ways to entice people into getting involved in schemes they might not normally think about doing. o there you are, an Internet warrior fighting the good fight against cyber crime. Time for an equipment check: Glock 21 with Surefire X300 light, Spyderco Gunting and Emerson Persian folding knives, 21" ASP baton, Peerless handcuffs, Streamlight Scorpion flashlight, all present. Where’s that M-4 and black SWAT body armor? Okay, got it. Are four magazines full of 5.56mm tactical rounds going to be enough? Calm down there, Neo. Before you and Morpheus go and rappel down the side of a building to combat the evil Cyber Ninjas who are threatening America and the future of life, as we know it, you have a lot of hard 46 S work to do. Cyber investigations, like any police work, involve mountains of paperwork and a multitude of investigative tasks — both before and after those few satisfying moments when the cuffs go on. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is set-up to receive, process, and analyze individual consumer complaints of crime victimization where that victimization occurred via the Internet. In addition, the IC3 receives industry data regarding victimization and fraud schemes, input from academic and industry experts regarding the latest cyber crime methodologies, and has analysts who actively research and seek out information on cyber crime activities. The IC3, a W WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=47http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=47IC3 A triad consisting of the FBI’s IC3 unit, your own agency and perhaps resources from around the world can combine to combat Internet crime and scams. YOUR Agency cooperative effort between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) develops potential cases for investigation and refers these cases to law enforcement agencies throughout the world. The IC3 can take some of the burden of taking Internet fraud and other Internet victimization reports off the shoulders of local law enforcement. The IC3 can also assist investigators with current investigations, both those referred to the investigators by the IC3 and those already initiated by the investigators without any IC3 involvement. The World T nat. white Collar Crime Ctr. Comprehensive The IC3 asks any agency initiating an investigation based on an IC3 referral to advise the IC3. The IC3 serves as a facilitator and will put agencies working the same investigation, or investigations with the same subjects in contact with one another so no resources are wasted and no “blueon-blue” situations occur. Secondly, the IC3 will support an investigation “cradle-to-grave.” If you’re law enforcement, regardless of department or agency, and open an investigation based on an IC3 referral, the IC3 will do a more in-depth analysis for you than was done in the initial quick referWWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM he National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) is a non-profit organization providing a myriad of free services for law enforcement. The NW3C provides training, investigative support and research to agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic crime, cyber crime and terrorism. Funded for over 30 years by the Department of Justice, the NW3C serves over 2,900 law enforcement member agencies located on four continents. The NW3C provides direct support to its members through investigative and analytical services, case funding, research and technical assistance. In addition, members have access to state-of-theart training on financial investigative techniques, financial analysis, intelligence analysis and cyber crime. Membership in the NW3C is free. To see if your organization qualifies for membership, call Membership Services at (804) 273-NW3C. For more information on the NW3C, please review the web site, www.nw3c.org. Other Contact info: J.P. Meade, Mgr. Investigative Support Services (ISS), jmeade@nw3c.org; Barbara Shanes, Membership Services Supervisor, bshanes@nw3c.org. 472009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=48http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=48aw Enforcement Online (LEO) is a global virtual private network provided by the FBI to all levels of the law enforcement, criminal justice, and public safety communities and is an “anytime and anywhere” system for secure dissemination of Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) information. The LEO system provides its membership, free of charge, a secure internet-based communications network. LEO is used to support investigative operations, to send notifications and alerts and provide an avenue to remotely access a wide variety of law enforcement and intelligence systems and resources. Users of LEO will have LEO e-mail accounts assigned and can use this e-mail system to converse with their law enforcement peers. In addition, access to various information and special interest groups (SIGs) is provided on the various LEO Web pages. SIGs for financial investigation topics, gang investigations and others exist. If you’re law enforcement and wish to contact the IC3 with a request for assistance or analysis, please visit the IC3 SIG on LEO at https://www.leo.gov/http://leowcs.leopriv.gov/lesig/ic3/. While on this Web page, click on the link LE.IC3.gov, and you’ll be directed to a page that allows you to fill out your name, department or agency, and what kind of assistance you require from IC3. If you’re law enforcement and don’t have a LEO account, please go to www.leo. gov, click on the link allowing you to download an application for a LEO account, print the application, fill it out, and fax the completed application to LEO per the instructions contained on the application. LEO allows you to access a great deal of good information, to communicate with your peers and request assistance from the IC3. l law Enforcement online ral package. They’ll continue to update you with information as it’s received, will prepare charts and other analytical documents for your court presentation, query databases and conduct analysis on subjects and victims you discover during the course of your investigainvestiga tion, and do everything else possible to assist you in your investigation. All you have to do is let the IC3 know you’re working such an investigation and ask for IC3 assistance. In addition, the IC3 will assist by performing “search requests” in regard to cases you may be workwork ing which were not initiated by an IC3 referral. It’s often helphelp ful, if you’re dealing with a known confidence trickster or scammer, to have his or her data checked, as the IC3 may be able to pull up several more victims in its complaint database and bolster your case. Several FBI Supervisory Special Agents (SSAs) are assigned to the IC3. In addition to administrative and susu pervisory duties, the SSAs develop and direct investigative initiatives. When large-scale cyber crime problems are identified at the IC3, initiatives are craftcraft ed to address these issues. For example, in the last year or so I spent some time in various cities in the United States and Eastern Europe in order to address a major organized cyber crime problem originating from Eastern Europe. What started as a multi-million dollar loss in automobile auction fraud soon snowballed into an initiative involving multiple investigations in several cities in the United States and in two foreign nations. This targeted an organized crime group that’s been found to deal in auction fraud, identity theft, credit card scams, malicious software and other cyber crimes. Using a traditional organized crime model and “following the 48 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=49http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=49money,” the IC3 was able to take information from foreign law enforcement, the IC3 complaint database and other sources to link multiple cyber crime groups into one major cyber crime organization. To date, multiple subjects have been arrested in Europe and many investigations are still ongoing in the U.S. and abroad. Investigative Pals The working relationships the IC3 has developed with information technology companies and other industry allows for the comparison of industry data to law enforcement data and the IC3 complaint database. In addition, National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) analysts conduct proactive searches for scammers, detect lists of compromised credit cards on the Internet, review “hacker” sites and develop other data. Due to the vast amounts of information available to NCFTA and the analytical capabilities contained at the IC3, trends in cyber crime are discovered and valuable intelligence information is often developed. IC3 compiles a monthly trend-analysis report identifying new scams and Internet crime schemes. It’s then disseminated throughout the FBI, other federal, state, local and international law enforcement via Law Enforcement Online (LEO). It also goes to business and industry via Like Sherlock Holmes used to do, following the money trail usually leads to the criminals. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM Continued on page 54 492009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=50http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=50EVOC Continued from page 30 over a 60" wheelbase, which made it very easy to maneuver. The Vectrix has good ground clearance even during an aggressive lean; I didn’t scrape the side-stand or any other parts. It comes standard with a 30.5" seat height, but can be lowered 2" when ordered with the customized seat, new for the 2009 model. Although it doesn’t compare to my Ninja in performance, it’s better than anything I’ve been introduced to remotely resembling its class — and runs at a fraction of the cost. Penny Per Mile CrossBreed Holsters LLC. ARE YOU TIRED OF UNCOMFORTABLE HOLSTERS? 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The patented regenerative braking system redirects energy back into the battery pack, which helps extend the range by up to 12 percent. The onboard charger plugs into any standard 110/220-volt electrical outlet and fully charges the Vectrix in only 2-3 hours. Officers in Providence were able to get an entire 8-hour shift from one complete charge. Major Melaragno said “it was excellent for community relations, people loved that it’s a zero-emission vehicle. It’s a real conversation starter.” “The Vectrix motorcycle, if driven the same amount as a cruiser, would save the (Kentucky) University almost $10,000 (its approximate cost) annually if gas averaged $3. Eastern Kentucky University’s police cruisers use an average of 2,521 gallons of fuel annually and require $2,300 in maintenance, not counting unforeseeable repairs. It is an ideal fit for our college police force,” Chief Mark Merriman said, “because it will allow us to continue our community-oriented approach to policing that facilitates more Will you be interaction with the student body, faculty and staff.” if he show The Vectrix VX-1 is now being used by many law enforcement departments and other fleet operators all over the world: NYPD, Penn State University Police Department, Amherst College Police Department, Glasgow, Scotland A RE Y Airport Police, London AA (Automo- A RE bile Association) and even a taxi serW vice in Paris, France. So get ready, the wave of the future is here and we’re going to see some different vehicles entering the police market. I’d love to see Vectrix come out with a beefed-up suspension system allowing the VX-1 to be taken over curbs and down stairs. * 50 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=51http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=51Dave Douglas iEvac Fire Escape Mask lmridge Protection Products was formed as a result of the September 11, 2001 disaster and national wake-up call. This small company located in Boynton Beach, Florida provides safety products for Law Enforcement, Fire Services and the public. They were first featured in COP a few years back with their “All-Ready Complete First Aid System.” It’s a cop friendly, ready to go, prepackaged first aid kit with instructions tabbed and located with the necessary medical supplies for just about any given emergency medical situation we might run into during a shift on the streets. Elmridge now offers a fire escape mask that should be standard issue at every LE facility. No fighting to don this iEvac Fire Escape Mask, it conforms to the k.i.s.s. principle. Target — First Responders Rising terrorism — domestic or foreign — will visit us once again, of this we can be sure; and law enforcement facilities have a great big target painted on them. Police facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other mid-east countries and around the world seem to be the target of choice. The idea of attacking the first responders is part of the terrorist’s playbook. We need to be ready. The danger of post explosion fire is real and present and we need the equipment to allow us not only to survive the initial attack but also to extricate LE personnel from a smoke laden structure. We all know it’s not the fire that’ll kill you — it’s the smoke — and this mask provides the opportunity to get out of that bad situation and live to fight on. Scott and MSA offer fantastic products for fire fighting and SWAT use, but they cost an arm and a leg and really don’t make sense for very limited law enforcement use. At around $170 per unit the iEvac Fire Escape Mask can sit on every desk in the squad room, the detective’s desks and admin personnel’s work areas. It’s Even Dave can’t stand himself after a bean burrito — thank God for his iEvac mask. designed as a one-time use piece of equipment with a 5.5-year shelf life. That seems like fiscally sound insurance to me. The iEvac Fire Escape Mask’s one time use dual filter system protects against many toxic gases including carbon monoxide, smoke, hydrogen cyanide, chlorine, ammonia, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride and more. It also filters out harmful particulates such as soot, fumes and aerosols. It contains a HEPA filter that removes more than 99.996 percent of sub-micron particles such as anthrax, smallpox and radioactive particles. It’s the first hood certified to the American National Standard for Smoke Escape Hoods, ANSI/ISEA 110-2003 – Respiratory Protective Smoke Escape Device. The iEvac Fire Escape Mask is easy to don and has the adjustable head harness on the outside of the hood allowing a good fit of this one-size-fits-all system. It has twin cartridges for easy breathing and high visibility reflective strips. It allows an unobstructed field of view and can be used with eyeglasses, beards and long hair. One thing to remember, this is a one-time use piece of equipment. It’s not designed for building entry or re-entry or for use in oxygen depleted environments. We live in a different world today than the one we were used to ten short years ago. Law enforcement agencies throughout the country team with homeland security experts to develop contingency plans to keep their city and our citizens safe. We can’t forget to plan for the safety of our first responders as well. It’s truly an unfortunate necessity. * For More Info: www.elmridgeprotection.com WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM 512009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=52http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=52NOVESKE N4 Continued from page 39 sense. The trigger had a bit of crawl in it, but even over the brief time I fired it I could feel it start to smooth out. Check out the chart to see group sizes and such. Practical Use I simply sighted in the rifle and then ran range drills, to include a small steel plate at 200 yards. Candidly, even with my old eyes I pounded the stuff way beyond making me happy. I have emphasized, turning a light on in a fight might not be healthy, but may be required to confirm the target. That said, a good light would be a valuable asset. There are many choices, sizes, weights and prices. You’ll figure out which ones are your favorites and which ones work best for your work conditions. Here are some lights I use — and have personally tested to make sure they work. The TLR-1 is a small, compact white light in a solid aluminum casing. The TLR2 is the same as the TLR-1 but also has a laser-sighting device. Both lights are also transferable to handgun rails for dual use. A TL-3 light has an easy off-andon mount. The light is quickly changed should there be a problem and interchanges with any TL-2 light system. This is a very cost-effective system and is simple. The M6 Scout Light is a very powerful light for its size. It’s a personal favorite of mine simply because of size and weight, but I don’t use or like the wire remote switches. The M951 is a big light, but it puts out big light, and can be set-up with a remote wire switch if you like. Be sure to secure the wire so you don’t rip the thing off at a critical moment. SureFire’s M910 is an even bigger light putting out, well, even bigger light. It does lots of stuff and has LED navigation lights on board so you don’t light up the planet while trying to sneak around. It’s the biggest and heaviest of all of these lights. The Noveske N4 rifle solves the lightweight and sighting system questions. The only problem remaining — and it all falls on your shoulders — is actually hitting the target. Not even a gold plated, diamond encrusted rifle with flawless optics and lights will make up for a lack of ability. Your shooting abilities only come with practice; and skills development to include safety, off-set of sights, manipulation and mechanics need to be part of that practice. The rifle is simply a mechanical device. It’s only as good as the police officer running it. Could practice make perfect? I don’t know — but why not try it and see. * For More Info: www.noveskerifleworks. com; www.vltor.com; www.streamlight. com; www.surefire.com. 52 WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • MAY/JUNE 20092009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=53http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=532009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=54http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=54INTERNET CRIME Continued from page 49 the FBI InfraGard program, and to international law enforcement via FBI Legal Attaches. In addition, the IC3 issues periodic public service announcements regarding new Internet scams and schemes on both the www.ic3.gov and www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com Web sites. Some consumer safety information and information on various cyber crime schemes are contained on both of these sites, with the latter site being operated solely as a consumer awareness and education platform maintained by the IC3. Public service announcements are also posted at the main FBI Internet site, www.fbi.gov. The IC3 does not conduct or direct investigations. It can and does refer potential investigations. It’ll assist you in your investigations by conducting analysis and providing information on general trends in cyber crime. Personnel at the IC3 can help you make decisions regarding your cases by giving you facts, analysis and other assistance. SSAs and senior analysts can offer advice on how to work certain cyber crimes. The IC3 has a good working relationship with many business and information technology firms and has access to information from these firms that may assist your investigations. The IC3’s success isn’t determined by how many investigations we manage because we don’t manage any investigations. We have no desire to take over your investigations. Our success is measured by how many complaints we receive, how many investigative packets we send out, how many investigations are opened based on our referrals, and how many requests for assistance we complete. We want you to get indictment and arrest statistics. We want you to be successful. We want bad guys to go to prison. We want to put the brakes on Internetbased crime. You will make the arrests. The IC3 is only a support entity, ready to assist you in your vital work. The unit’s in West Virginia, it’s funded by the federal government, and it really is here to help you. Contact us via Law Enforcement Online (LEO), and we can begin to work together. * Jon Holloway is a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has over 16 years of law enforcement experience. 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The saddle Rest, from special Operations Technologies, gives you a fast and stable platform just about anywhere. he market place is absolutely flooded with illumination gear that until a couple of years ago, were just called lights or flashlights. In the last five years these lights have taken a quantum leap forward in all versions and applications, from handheld to weapon-mounted. Always the innovators, INSIGHT Tech Gear has been a leader with their tactical illumiith the marked increase of precinator, and now they offer many versions of laser, light sion rifle use over the last ten and combination systems. The one I use everyday is the years — thanks to the war on iSee LED light. It can be used with a removable clip that terror and the like — there’ve grips surfaces up to 1" thick or can be free standing. The been lots of improvements in the weapons bright, dual LEDs are mounted on an arm with a full and equipment used for this specialized 180-degree arc. task. 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Somebody’s going to TASE me and steal all my money. Let’s make them illegal!” Sure crooks can get TASERs — just like they get guns, knives, clubs, vehicles and an untold number of other implements they use as weapons. It’s highly unlikely there’ll be much of an increase in the use of TASERs for illegal purposes. For one thing, TASER International has taken a couple of significant steps to help prevent this, requiring a background check be conducted on anyone attempting to activate a TASER C2. Anyone with a felony conviction won’t be able to activate the device. They also use Protective Anti-Felony Identification (AFID) Tags. Every TASER cartridge contains a bunch of these confetti-like AFID tags, which contain the serial number of the cartridge deployed. This allows law enforcement to determine the registered owner of the cartridge if it’s used in a crime. But there are already significant legal penalties in place for illegally using TASERs in most places. Poking Your Eye Out One of the most impressive aspects of the TASER C2 package is the quality of the video instruction provided on the included DVD. The instructions are clear, concise, and offer a significant amount of direction concerning the care and use of the TASER C2. Overall, they’re fairly simple to operate and the video offers a lot of important information. Yes, you need to train with it. In fact, most agencies require officers to complete mandated TASER training before allowing them to carry one. And for Pete’s sake, don’t ever point a TASER at a cop because they’re trained to use deadly force if necessary to avoid being TASEd. Training should spill into your personal life too, especially if other members of your family will be carrying one. Remember that attorney attached to the barbs? south florida police, fire and security expo 2009 stunning The TASER C2 can also be used like a “stun gun” type device to shock someone by touching him directly with the activated device when the cartridge is either out of the device, or has already been deployed. This technique is called “Drive Stunning” and is an effective deterrent, but it doesn’t provide the overall NMI associated with a true deployment where the probes spread several inches apart on the subject. Another important option is the laseraiming device. The C2 is offered with or without the laser “sight.” I wouldn’t consider getting one — or giving one to a loved one — without the laser. Not only are the lasers very accurate for probe-placement, they serve as a huge deterrent. In every case where I’ve personally used a TASER for enforcement purposes, it didn’t require an actual deployment. 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It gives you 165 of those Lumen-things and runs 1.5 hours on two of those lithium batteries we all hate to buy. There’s even a “find me” glowing light on the rear button that’s also a battery life indicator. And all for around $80. Who’d a thought? www.bushnell.com Square Light? Losing Your Head ccording to the UPI, the head of a new local police commander was left in an ice bucket at his police station in the Ciudad Juarez area. A Mexican paper reported Martin Castro Martinez was one of 15 people killed execution-style in 24 hours. Castro Martinez was abducted four days after he became police chief. It was evidently a message from a drug cartel. Go figure. Things may be tough in the states at times, but at least we don’t usually see this sort of thing with our police chiefs. But then again, there’s some chiefs … nah, just kidding. A 420 small Pry T 50% 86% 94% he name is just right. This new goodie from BLACKHAWK! is a bit longer than a foot and guaranteed to rip, break, rake, snort, poke, pry, chop, dig and … well, you get my drift. It’s powder-coated, and the checkered plastic rubber handle is secure and comfy. It’s made of good-old D2 tool steel so is tough as a Russian T-34 tank. Nothing fancy here to mess up its ability to do its job. I like this lots since it doesn’t violate the simple-is-good rule. A bit pricy at first glance at $199, but it’s one of those “if” you need it, you really need it things and you’d probably gladly pay 200 bucks for it then! So do it now. www.blackhawk.com * 692009-04-15T15:52:12+02:00http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=70http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanCop/ACMJ09/?Page=70ROY hUNtINGtON INsIdER RUMInATIOnS “One of many tough assignments i had to deal with.” The CyCle W e’re seeing it again. Budgets are getting cut, equipment upgrades ignored, new armor left un-bought, practice ammo gone, new gun bids shut down, old beat-up beat cars asked to go one more year, training time cut or eliminated — you know the drill. If you’ve been around more than a few years, you’ve seen it happen. It’s happening again, and it gets people killed. I joined the San Diego PD in the late 1970s. Vests were still relatively new technology and we didn’t even have to wear them. Ammo was lead .38 Special, the SWAT team was something we hardly ever heard anything about, much less used for much. We handled most of the stuff ourselves. Our armor usually consisted of the cotton of our duty uniform shirts, backed up by 18 rounds of .38s on our gun belts. San Diego policed with a small town mentality — but was a big city — and we were about to be reminded of it. In the early 1980s, officers suddenly started to get killed. When the dust settled, seven San Diego officers had been murdered on duty. Suddenly, money “appeared” for new body armor, training, ammunition upgrades, more portable radios, mandated twoofficer beat cars in some areas, upgraded communications technology, an air-support unit, K-9s and the list goes on. One moment there was no money, then suddenly money was being thrown at this “problem.” City officials had been warned more cops needed to be hired, new technology needed to be adopted, training needed to be updated, etc. but hands were wrung and heads shaken. “Maybe next year.” Then the cops started dying. So, did we learn from it? Actually — yes. Since those days, with very rare exceptions, training has been exemplary on the San Diego PD. Money is spent — even when it hurts — and vests are upgraded, cars are purchased, new radios bought, training mandated and made current to meet new threats and crimes, and an “advanced officer training” routine is maintained INsIdERRUMInATIOnS with all officers mandated to attend three day training blocks regularly. Officer deaths have been kept at a minimum and crime in San Diego remains at an all time low in spite of frighteningly low numbers of officers. But will the thousands of agencies across the country remember these kinds of lessons? I doubt it. Hands will be wrung, heads will shake and the “maybe next year” comments will be heard. If a miracle occurs — and I want a miracle to occur — no cops will get killed because of a lack of funded training, poor ammo, outdated body armor, police cars with 150,000 miles on them or radios that don’t work when they need to. But if your agency is one of those thousands slashing budgets as we speak, keep your head screwed-on tight and your brain working overtime. It’s time for oldtime police work. Don’t rely on technology to bail you out of something — it might not be there for you. And that training you hardly paid attention to in the past? Dig deep and try to remember, refresh, re-read, buy the video and do what it takes to stay current. Remind yourself what “Contact and Cover” is and do it. And read John Russo’s Officer Survival column in this issue about that very thing. But we’ll try one more time to make those in command understand the problem. Once, when I was about to buy a cheap socket set, an old guy standing next to me in the store said, “I know it’s hard, but be prepared to spend more than you want to on something, but never less than you should. You’ll never regret the investment in better quality, even though it hurts a bit at the time. In the long run, it always saves time and money.” And lives. Are they listening? 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