As usual the topic of my Officer.com article started as a debate between the Editor and myself. I wanted to write a gloriously detailed article about the adventures of using a female urine funnel so I ...

ATLANTA |To equip social workers for dangerous confrontations, the state is giving them all judo training, "verbal judo" that is. The training has been used for years by police agencies since it was ...

ARCHBOLD — First responders from a variety of agencies are gathering at Northwest State Community College (NSCC) here today and tomorrow for a type of training aimed at de-escalation practices. The ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Emotions can run high when police a stop a vehicle, or when officers arrive at the scene of a potential issue. Anxiety. Fear. Frustration. A heart beats faster when a siren ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free online Verbal De-escalation (aka Verbal Judo) training in May via WebEx. Verbal De-escalation is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to ...

The lawyer’s art is often likened to a fencing match, a chess game, a battle of wits or a battle of wills. But in W. Lee Fjelstad’s view, the better comparison is to judo. Fjelstad will present ...

In recent years, many students across the nation have been traumatized by bullying and incidents of gun violence. Aggressive initiatives are currently underway by the U.S. Department of Education to ...

At the front of the classroom, officers acted out a familiar scenario. Police had just spotted a suspicious person walking on private property. “Good evening, sir,” Officer Sean Powell began the skit.

Dirty Harry won’t cut it in the 1990s. “This is modern America, not a Clint Eastwood movie. If you say to Americans in the ’90s, ‘Go ahead, make my day,’ they’ll do it,” barked cop trainer George ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free online Verbal De-escalation (aka Verbal Judo) training in October via WebEx. Verbal De-escalation is a PowerPoint presentation lasting one and a half ...