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Last edited by BobM; 05-31-2018 at 01:09 PM.
Training is cyclic, like most other things. Techniques are introduced, then forgotten and rediscovered. Many of the supposedly new highspeed techniques that are being branded as revolutionary by that ex-special operations operator type instructor are anything but. Example: the support hand forward on the handguard, in C-clamp fashion actually dates from the early 20th century. It was taught as an early form of CQB technique with the 1903 Springfield, circa 1907.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
I read "Officer Down! Code 3!" when I was in college. And "Police Tactics in Hazardous Situations" which was produced in cooperation with the San Diego PD.
"Street Survival" came out in the spring of 1980, just before I graduated college. I ordered my first edition after seeing an ad for it in "Police Marksman" Magazine. Back when they were storing the books in Chuck Remsberg's garage or basement or something.
(I miss "Police Marksman".)
I just got Ed Mirales' book on the FBI Miami Shootout of 1986 but I haven't read it yet.
The Newhall Incident of 1970 was something that was discussed a lot when I was in the police academy (1981) and I have both of the recent books on the incident.
Motorola Teleprograms produced a whole bunch of neat police training movies in the late 1970s. I wish somebody would bring those out on DVD.
Last edited by Jeff22; 06-15-2018 at 03:56 AM.
I got my first copy as a cadet in approx ‘90, and internalized it. Mutton cops, bell bottom uniform slacks, and campaign hats aside, there is still some good info in that book. If a patrolman memorized and actioned that book verbatim, they’d still be in good shape.
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Street Survival was the first "professional" book I read after I switched to LE from .mil - and I still pull it off the shelf and re-read it every now and then...