Colorado Deputy stabbed

"Rio Blanco County Sheriff Si Woodruff is in the hospital after he was stabbed in the parking lot of Pioneers Hospital Thursday while trying to make an arrest."

For full story, follow the link: http://m.9news.com/localnews/article?a=14441657&f=1269

The Wolf necessitates the Sheepdog

With all the rampant second-guessing, liberal arm-chair quarterbacking and general disdain of our LEOs based on lack of understanding and education, I felt compelled to throw this together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2rhMLz7mzc&list=UUviq-IlQRsf1pTsZy4mciEw

Fitness?

Force Science News #262‏
I. Tests on controlling resistant suspects show need for fitness scrutiny

Researchers at a police college in Norway have confirmed what intuitively seems obvious: an officer's fitness level correlates significantly with his or her ability to control resistant subjects during arrest.

"[O]ne of the most critical and stressful physical tasks" of police work is "getting control of a struggling suspect," writes Thomas Dillern of the Norwegian Police University College, who led the research team. Indeed, "the apprehension of a strongly intractable subject...is described as the most commonly occurring maximal physical exertion in the profession," Dillern says, sometimes resulting in serious officer injury or death.

Yet "the relationship between general physical fitness and the ability to cope" with that challenge has been "scarcely examined," Dillern states, until the study by his team.

Their conclusion: All things considered, the data "emphasize the need, and the justification, of implementing monitoring of physical fitness" throughout an officer's career "to ensure the police are capable of performing their job" as they age.

NOTE: Don't miss the sobering observations about the study from Force Science Executive Director Dr. Bill Lewinski near the end of this article.

PHYSICAL RIGORS. Dillern and his researchers selected 19 male volunteers who had completed three years of education at the Police University College, including "mandatory courses related to physical training and arrest handling." After such variables as age and body mass index (BMI) were recorded, the subjects first completed four physical tests and then, within two weeks later, executed takedowns and self-defense tactics against a struggling or aggressive opponent, simulating a resisted arrest.

The physical capability tests, graded on a scale of 0-60 by experienced observers, consisted of:

• a bench press, in which the officers lifted as much weight as they could for one rep, to assess maximum upper-body strength;
• controlled chin ups from a fully extended hanging position, as many times as they could until exhausted, to measure upper-body strength endurance;
• a standing long jump, to evaluate explosive power, and
• a 3,280-yard run without spiked shoes on a standard track-and-field course, testing aerobic capacity and reflecting the exertion that might occur during a foot pursuit.

Dillern explains that large-muscle strength in the upper body is important "especially [for] the pushes and pulls during the apprehension of an intractable subject," making the "the performances in the bench press and the pull up tests...the most influential factors affecting the arrest handling performance." However, to maintain a balanced stance while struggling with a resister, "a higher strength and power capacity in the lower extremities are beneficial" as well.

DEFENSIVE CONTROLS. The arrest-handling tests again consisted of four elements: a one-on-one takedown; a two-officers/one suspect takedown; a struggle in which the officers might have to counterattack an attacking opponent with kicks and punches; and a self-defense exercise in which the volunteers had to free themselves from a variety of strangleholds.

Each of these tests had four levels of difficulty, ranging from little or no actual movement by the suspect role-player up to full-sparring, aggressive and threatening behavior. The officers had to successfully achieve and sustain control of their suspect with empty-hand techniques to the point of handcuffing at a given level before moving up to the next. They were scored according to how far they advanced.

"To the best of our knowledge," Dillern writes, "this is the first study to examine [the fitness] relationship by the use of a real struggling subject to assess the arrest performance."

STRONG RESULTS. "[W]e found a large correlation between police students' general physical capacity and their ability to handle a simulated arrest test," the researchers report. Namely: "[A] higher physical fitness affects the outcome of the arrest situation in a positive manner."

The study also documented a negative correlation between age and both the physical tests and the arrest tests. Dillern terms "disturbing" this finding that as age increases, performance decreases.

An officer typically "spends much of the working day carrying out low-intensity activity, and the occupation is therefore mainly described as sedentary," he writes. However, regularly emerging episodes...are often occurring and can be stressful, critical, and even life threatening for both the officer and the surrounding civilians.

 "Even if the major part of the job can be executed independent of a police officer's physical fitness, some tasks still demand a certain level of fitness to be handled, and if the officer is not capable of managing these tasks, it can be questioned if he or she is capable of doing the job at all.

"Consequently, to ensure that officers are capable of performing their job, some minimum requirements of general physical fitness ought to be upheld."

SOBERING OBSERVATIONS. The Force Science Institute was not involved in the Norwegian study, but based on related research FSI has conducted, plus his own professional experiences across a career in law enforcement training, Dr. Bill Lewinski offers some sobering observations on certain of the group's findings.

"The results of the physical capability tests are remarkable," he told Force Science News. "These were the averages among the study subjects: bench press--235 pounds; chin-ups--15; long jump--8 feet 4 inches; time for the roughly two-mile run--11 minutes 53 seconds. The average participating officer weighed 181 pounds and stood just under 6 feet.

"In all likelihood, fewer than 10 per cent of officers upon graduating from any academy in North America would be able to match these performance standards. And from a fitness standpoint, that is when officers tend to be at their absolute peak.

"In one survey of 226 US officers with time on the job, only a minority felt they could 'very well' perform such relatively simple tasks as completing 21 push-ups, negotiating an agility obstacle course, performing 36 sit-ups, sitting and reaching 16 ? inches, and bench pressing their own body weight. And these tests are far less demanding that what the researchers in Norway used.

"In the study of physical exhaustion conducted by the Force Science Institute a few years ago, we found that the average officer's pulse rate hit 180 beats per minute within 20 seconds of all-out exertion, such as would be experienced in a struggle with a resistant suspect. That represents a dramatic stressing of an officer's physical system and capabilities." For more about this study, go to:  www.forcescience.org/fsnews/176.html .

Lewinski suggests that officers reading about the Norwegian study measure their own ability against the physical capabilities tests those researchers used, as cited earlier in this article. "The message for many officers," he says, "will be: 'Get to a gym! Do it now! Don't wait!' "

The Norwegian study, titled "Arresting a Struggling Subject; Does the Forthcoming Police Officer's Physical Fitness Have an Impact on the Outcome?", is reported in full in The Open Sports Sciences Journal. Click here to access it without charge.

For the entire article, click here: https://bay168.mail.live.com/default.aspx#tid=cmrgEA5lkk5BGaiQAhWthT9A2&fid=flinbox

 

cutting demo vid

For those of you who were in class today, here is the video of the pork cutting demo I told you about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvEbVcU6WQk

what people hate

From Brian Willis….

In my seminars on the Pursuit of Personal Excellence and What's Important Now? I talk about change and people's resistance to change. I even use the following quote:

Most people hate two things:

1.They hate change.
2.And, they hate the way things are.

In a recent Gapingvoid Art blog post Hugh MacLeod put a new spin on resistance to change for me. MacLeod says, "People don't resist change. They resist being changed…..People want guidance - they don't want to feel controlled."

A powerful insight into the resistance around change. When you view the resistance from this perspective you realize that in order to effect a cultural change in an organization it is critical to provide people with tools, strategies, tactics, goals, and a clear understanding of the 'Why'.  (Watch Simon Sinek's TED talk How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Simon Sinek for an explanation of the importance of starting with 'Why'.)

One of the simplest and most effective change tools you can give people is an understanding of Life's Most Powerful Question - What's Important Now? Embracing the power of this simple question allows you to gain greater clarify regarding the choices, challenges and decisions facing you every day. You will very quickly be able to determine what is really a priority and then reestablish focus and commitment to what is important. I am continually amazed at the stories and feedback I receive from people regarding how they have applied this simple, but powerful question to inspire excellence in both themselves and others.

What's Important Now? - Embrace Life's Most Powerful Question. Make it part of your life and your success rituals, and share it with others in your life.

Dallas police kill knife-wielding teen attacking his family:

Dallas police kill knife-wielding teen attacking his family:

Read full story here: http://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/articles/7452597-Dallas-police-kill-knife-wielding-teen-attacking-his-family/

Pain and Fear

Interesting read this morning:

Pain and Fear:

Both originate internally.

Pain can be viewed two ways:  

1. The body awakening and telling us that something is wrong; fix it.
2. You are getting better; pushing yourself and getting stronger/faster.

Either way, it is a tool that you can use to drive and motivate yourself to do more; improve your situation; or fix something.

Fear is a choice we make. We decide, based off of our experience and perceptions, whether to be afraid or not. More importantly, we choose how to use that fear.

Both Pain and Fear are internally driven tools that we have complete power of how to use them; discard them; or succumb to them.

Misconception: Most people think that something externally is the source of our pain or fear; that something or someone else has that power over us. Not true! We choose how to respond to external factors.

That is why one person can go fetal and freeze when someone is mean to them while another (the warrior) simply sees a challenge or an opportunity to put into practice skills they train in. Why one person is terrified of a thunderstorm and another stands in the rain enjoying the raw power of nature. It is a choice.