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How To Assure “Fair, Neutral & Fact-Finding” Officer-Involved Shooting Investigations (Part 2)

Part 2 of a 2-part series A foremost authority on police psychology, Dr. Alexis Artwohl, has designed a protocol checklist that can help assure that an investigation of an officer-involved shooting is fair, neutral and fact-finding in nature. Part 1 of this series [Force Science News Transmission, sent 4/1/06] explored the first dozen of her...
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“Fraught With Perils”… But What’s Better? Experts Speak Out on New IACP Suicide-Bomber Guidelines

Part 2 of a 2-part Series Counter-terrorism expert Robert Bunker, PhD, won’t take questions about the provocative recommendations he wrote for 2 recent publications from the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police about would-be suicide/homicide bombers and how police officers can best preemptively kill them. Through an assistant, he declined to address inquiries from Force...
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Suicide Bombers: What New IACP “Training Keys” Say You Need To Know

Part 1 of a 2-Part Series If you encounter a subject you reasonably believe is a would-be suicide bomber, a recently issued and unusually aggressive set of guidelines published by the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police recommends that you: –shoot to kill the suspect, –deliver your round(s) to his or her head as the...
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Study Reveals Important Truths Hidden in the Details of Officer-Involved Shootings

Ideas for research projects can germinate from the least likely moments, as when a student asked Firearms Trainer Tom Aveni if he’d ever visited the ACLU’s website. He hadn’t (“Why would I even want to go there?”), but out of curiosity he did. There in a section dedicated to “police abuse” he read a statistic...
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Are Cops Wild In The Streets? New Study Says No Way!

To hear some of the media and activist police critics tell it, American cops are “out of control,” running rampant in an “epidemic” of unjustified use of force. But in an ongoing study that has been underway now for more than three years, Dr. Darrell Ross, an associate professor in the CJ department at East...
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