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Thanksgiving is Over...Let's get consistent!

The holiday is over, you've over-eaten, not worked out, neglected sleep and done everything else wrong.Forgive yourself!Being consistent to family, friends, co-workers and you means applying discipline over a period of time. ...

November 28, 2025 • 13:42

Domestic Disputes - 13 minutes of How to Manage Safely and Effectively

We've all heard in training that domestic disputes / assaults can be soooooooooo high risk.  Then we get on patrol, ride 10 of them a week, and complacency sets in.  We're arresting husbands in front of wives and brothers in front of ...

November 25, 2025 • 12:53

Less Lethal Weapons - Follow-up to Previous Weapons Episode

The obvious follower to the weapons episode - LESS LETHAL!From pepper spray to super socks, from tasers to flashbangs.  Let's discuss a great variety of less lethal weapons - weapons not designed to kill a person - and how to...

November 21, 2025 • 19:30

Weapons - How to Make Choices on What to Carry and How to Carry it!

Your agency likely tells you what to carry as far as weapons - rifle, pistol, shotgun.This episode is designed to get us thinking about the options we DO have, and to get management thinking about how choosing the correct weapon s...

November 18, 2025 • 17:23

Knock and Talk - How to Go to Someone's Door and Create More!

I have harped on the 4th Amendment to the point that we're all ready to throw up.  So let's do it some more!An episode on Consensual Encounters released last month, and it's a gamechanger.  Knock and Talks are simply an ...

November 14, 2025 • 35:19

Fan Mail

early 1970’s as a third grader sitting in the back of a police car, watching my father, who had paranoid schizophrenia, being handcuffed, my dad telling us the cops weren’t who they were claiming to be, provided the front row seat into what a chemical imbalance looks like. To their credit, the officers took him into custody, and checked in to a mental health facility.. no we talked about it back then, there was a stigma of shame associated with anybody that spent time in a mental health facility. To put it in context, my father was a loving man, a boxer, who to put it simply suffered from a chemical imbalance. As you mentioned, he turned to drugs to escape this condition, unfortunately, this led to him taking his own life. Thank you for bringing this topic to the forefront. Semper Fi..

Cincinnati, Ohio