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ARE WE SCANNING FOR THREATS?
Or performing a choreographed ballet?
CAN YOUR DEPT’S PURCHASING SYSTEM GET YOU HURT?
Low bid may not be what you need.
MODEL 19 Smith and Wesson’s classic magnum police revolver.
A TOUGH TACTICAL TOOL The Lasermax LMS-1202 light & laser unit.
HOW NOT TO GET ARRESTED
An easy to follow formula for staying out of jail.
WOOLRICH ELITE SERIES 150-year-old tactical gear?
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Mark Hanten
SIG freezes the competition with its new guns.
By any yardstick, SIGARMS has been kicking butt in handgun sales to federal law-enforcement agencies. It’d be fair to say they’re dominating that market. The first in a series of recent contract victories was announced in August of 2004. Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded SIG a five-year contract for up to 65,000 pistols which includes the P226 and P229 Rail pistols with the new DAK trigger system in 9mm and .40 S&W. The P239 pistol is also part of the contract in double action only (DAO) configuration. The contract is the plum of recent federal handgun procurements and is valued at a cool 23.7 million dollars.
Subsequent to this, SIG won a $4.2 million contract to provide P229R/DAK pistols in .40 S&W to the U.S. Coast Guard in September 2004. Then, in December 2004, they won another federal contract for 5,000 9mm SP2022 polymer framed guns to the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command at the Rock Island Arsenal. Then in February 2005, they were awarded a contract for another 3,600 guns in the same configuration as the Coast Guard to U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). In all, four major federal contracts in six months — they just keep rolling in!
WHY? If I hadn’t recently had the opportunity of trying out the DAK trigger system, I’d be asking myself that too. But I have, and it answered a lot of questions for me. The DAK is a major improvement on both the double action/single action triggers and the DAO triggers at SIG — and cures the only weak point in an otherwise rock solid, dependable handgun.
Read about the SIG Ice Guns in the Jan/Feb issue of American COP.
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“Discipline: From the Latin disciplina – teaching, learning. Punishment. Training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character. Orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior. To train or develop by instruction and exercise, esp. in self-control.”
– Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
Go back up to the definition of discipline and read it again. Note that “punishment” is only one word, a single slice of the broad spectrum of true discipline. All too often, police disciplinary processes are a simple formula consisting of (1) determining that a violation has occurred, (2) assessing a given level of punishment, and (3) imposing that punishment. The reasons this happens are simple. Doing so is far less demanding than engaging in thoughtful, perceptive analysis. Rote, unimaginative response is less psychologically stressful for the supervisor. Neat, simplistic findings and punitive actions are more easily reviewed, approved, then filed and forgotten by higher-ranking administrators, who are distanced from the human effects. Finally, always popular and poorest of all excuses, “because we’ve always done it that way.”
Little attention is given to whether or not the violation was the result of an “honest mistake,” resulting from a well-motivated attempt to carry out a duty; something which would have been acceptable or even commendable had it just turned out positively.
The officer’s actions you are currently dealing with may be far more routine and even mundane compared with those faced by, let’s say, a New Orleans PD sergeant mired in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But they share three things: First, the need to determine the context of the act; second, the need to determine whether discipline, if imposed, necessarily includes punishment, guidance, or both, and third, the need to style your delivery of that discipline to achieve the desired result.
John Morrison served in combat as a Marine sergeant, and retired as a senior lieutenant from the San Diego Police Department, having served there as Director of Training, Commanding Officer of SWAT and division executive officer. He has taught, written and lectured widely on training, tactics and leadership. Contact him at StreetLevelOne@yahoo.com. |
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And his basement was his dungeon. Cops in Royal Oak, Michigan, chased Robert McClain from the scene of a traffic accident straight back to his home and right to his basement door. Good thing the hot-footin’ officers did a tactical stutter-step there, because when they opened the door, a barrage of medieval weaponry came flyin’ up at them, including swords, chains and a huge war mallet.
“I got a thousand years of power!” Robert’s voice boomed outta the darkness, “Come and get me!” Peering down, they saw Robert, completely outfitted in chain mail armor, long leather gauntlets and a crusader’s sword. I’m pretty sure one cop was thinkin’ something like, “A thousand years of power? How ’bout fifty thousand volts of technology?” — then he stepped up and Taser’d Robert, dropping him like a box of old Camaro parts.
We just want to know if the Taser hit that chain mail, and if so, did those officers get a light show like stuffing a crumpled ball of aluminum foil into a 7-Eleven microwave?
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Dave Spaulding
Since the early 1980s, the words “survive” and “survival” have been as much a part of cop lingo as handcuff, citation and emergency lights. We’ve been bombarded with the phrases Street Survival, Officer Survival, the Will to Survive, Survival Mindset and Ultimate Survivors. The message Chuck Remsberg and Dennis Anderson, founders of Calibre Press, sent law enforcement was loud and clear. Due to their efforts, many cops who probably would not have lived to see their retirement did. They’re probably responsible for saving more law enforcement and military lives than any two men in history — and neither ever wore a police uniform. I’m truly proud to call them my friends.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, survive means “to remain in existence.” Sorry, but that’s just not good enough for me — or my students. I want them to go home unharmed, unscathed and ready to do it all over again. To me, survival is not what I want to instill in my student’s long-term database. I want them to be winners. I want them to prevail, which according to Mr. Webster means “to be victorious, to succeed.”
What does it take to prevail in any confrontation? It’s impossible to cover every potential life-threatening event, especially since most situations are outside our control. But, if we limit our discussion to the cop on the street and the confrontations they’re likely to face in the line of duty, then we can prepare. It involves developing a combative mindset — an awareness and willingness to do whatever it takes to come out on top, unhurt and ready to protect and serve another day. |
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I think everyone must have a spot in their patrol area where when you get an alarm you just know it’s going to be a good one. So, you get the call and as you cautiously approach the rear of the building four armed men jump out of a van that just blocked you in from behind. Back up, as always, is miles away and you are severely out gunned. Now what?
Trainers try to educate cops how to avoid situations like this all the time. However, if you wear a badge you’ve become a target — vulnerability comes with the turf. A misunderstood safe haven is your vehicle. How much protection does it really provide? It’s not much.
It’s important to train officers to shoot from inside the vehicle, through and around the windows or deploy from the vehicle to adequate cover while shooting. We still see quite a few cops immediately take cover behind the vehicle door — and that’s not a good thing.
Cars are not good cover. A 180 grain .40 S&W round will defeat most cars doors with a high percentage punching through both sides. The 7.62 X 39 AK type steel core bullet can penetrate a car from end to end. Practice exiting the vehicle quickly and if you have the luxury of a two officer car, practice covering each other’s exit and getting to real cover — away from the vehicle.
More Things To Know About Bullets And Glass in the Jan/Feb issue of American COP
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