Editor's Note: This article is also discussed in Ayman's Podcast: Project Sapient--check it out here. I was born in Monrovia, Liberia in the early Continue Reading
The Tactical Tango and Psychological Ambush… a Lost Art
A few years ago, I investigated a credit card theft. The defendant, call him "Mr. Big," worked as a mechanic for a family-owned car dealership. The Continue Reading
The Public is the Police… the Police are the Public
Principle number 7 in Sir Robert Peele's Policing Principles, who is known as the father of modern policing, states to maintain at all times a Continue Reading
Why You Want Cops to Have a Warrior’s Mindset
Editor's Note: This article is also discussed in Ayman's Podcast: Project Sapient--check it out here. Over the past several years, the term "warrior" Continue Reading
I’m not Liberal, I’m not Conservative, I am Reasonable
These days in America, if you have an opinion (no matter what that opinion may be), you are quickly labeled and ridiculed. It could be the most Continue Reading
This Happens When Knee-Jerk Reactions Become Law
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on July 21, 2020. ___ Ex-Mayor of Minneapolis Betsy Hodges recently wrote: "I remember clearly one officer, Continue Reading
Police Training… or Lack Thereof
I've been a cop for over a decade and have seen the decline of quality training made available to police officers. Don't get me wrong, some of the Continue Reading
A Cop’s Proposal: Instead of Defunding… Refocus Policing
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on June 11, 2020. The new viral phrase going around, “Let’s De-fund Police.” You have political leaders Continue Reading
Reaction vs. Reflex
Battle drills, battle drills, battle drills…The Ranger Handbook defines battle drills as a collective action rapidly executed without applying a Continue Reading
There is a Difference between Behavioral Profiling and Racial Profiling
I took a college course some years back. At that point, I’d been a police officer for about 3 years. The course centered around the issues of Racial Continue Reading
Quiet Intensity
Briefing done Operation is a go Put on my kit Radio check Light checkWeapons check I load a magazine, bolt released, bullet in the chamber A sound Continue Reading
When One of Us is Murdered
It’s so frequent these days. It’s on the news nearly every day. An officer was shot and injured, an officer was assaulted, an officer was ambushed, an Continue Reading
