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An officer’s presence can not be faked nor worn falsely
as under duress it ever so subtly but always reveals and
communicates what is directly behind it, actual ability.
If their are any existing gaps or holes in your ability
to act out physically on what you stand on or say verbally,
it will show long before your structure is actually tested.
Your presence as an officer will have already failed you.
An officer’s presence is the first line and lawful
opportunity to influence the direction of any disturbance
or conflict will take. The officer’s ability to evaluate
and diffuse a volatile situation in the least confrontational
and safest manner possible for all parties involved is therefore
based on what they bring to it from the moment they arrive
at the scene….their level of self-confidence and clarity
of mind and mission.
Only functional ability and experience can ever truly define
and forge the level of calm, balanced and capable confidence
that translates into a strong, clear and level presence.
The Dilemma - The huge
riff in Officer responsibility with Officer response-ability.
The use of force by criminal justice and peace officers
has increasingly become the focus of national attention.
Never before has so much attention been directed to the
every day occurrences of controlling resistances of varying
degrees and intent.
Common sense should dictate that effectively establishing
a presence, reading your subject well, keeping a safe distance
and if need be, using the appropriate tool (radio, O.C.
spray, tazer, asp, etc.) at the appropriate time, should
indeed get you home every night if called to do so.
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Yet, ask any officer an he or she will tell
you a story or two of the errors and hard earned lessons of
some other officer being caught off guard and with little
else but panic frenzied adrenaline and white knuckle fear
and/ or fury to save them. Obviously not very tactical, technical,
nor legally defendable but precisely what their state funded
administrators and media stalked departments fear the most,
the exact makings for excessive use of violence or worst yet...an
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The reason being that though should and if work well on the
conceptual level and from the side lines, in reality and on
the field they can and usually lead to some very harsh realizations.
Simply put, discovering one's physical limitations by being
rushed, tackled, slammed to the ground, and being smack in
the middle of a fist fight with at least one firearm in the
mix is never appropriate and most definitely not the way to
do it.
Unfortunately, rookies are the first to tell you that within
days of graduation from the academy they had forgotten the
bulk of the Defensive Tactics they had been taught and worse
yet, knew they were inefficient and out dated from the instant
they were first shown. This futility continues on over the
years as experienced and seasoned officers are still prodded
through the same insufficient material but now in the form
of calendar marked refresher courses which to no one's surprise
are there to assure maximum legal protection for their departments
which tragically to this date, equates to minimal tactical
protection for their own well being.
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| Every year like assembly line parts never quite
getting to where everything is supposed to connect or actually
function they are pushed through daily with greater performance
demands by the public and subsequently fewer resources by
their departments to protect them from the very same public
they serve. Justice and Peace Officers are therefore forced
into the precarious position of ultimately being held liable
by both sides of this equation which consequently makes any
one action they take the very one action that could cost them
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Nevertheless there they go; each day and night, every day
and night with the dilemma of being trained to barely succeed
and yet expected to never fail. Each day, quite aware of what
they were trained to do but knowing instead what they must
do, they just put it all behind them and do their best to
get the job done and make it home before doing it all once
again.
This riff in responsibility with response-ability
can indeed be bridged.
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| The Solution The I.S.R.
Matrix LE
The ISR Matrix LE was created to pragmatically and quickly
patch the existing technical gaps in the Use of Force Continuum
and better equip our nation's justice and peace officers
with the most efficient, functional and legally defensible
training methods and tactics available for intercepting,
stabilizing and resolving the situations and challenges
they encounter on any given day.
The ISR Matrix LE intends to do so by addressing everything
from officer arrival, presence and communication to transporters,
takedowns, restraints, counters and the use of incapacitation
and deadly force in a manner both complimentary and evolutionary
to the standards and means currently in use by departments
nationwide.
In the most direct and clear of terms,
the I.S.R Matrix LE:
- Is built on, tested, and refined on performance and
efficiency under the full spectrum and levels of resistance.
- Works with and does not replace what an officer already
knows and has available to them.
- Is simple and sound in structure and adaptability.
- Is readily absorbed and made functional in a short period
of time.
- Interlaces with the tactics already in place within
departmental guidelines.
- Ensures firearm retention.
- Functions with the limitations and parameters set by
uniform and special unit gear.
- Works and evolves under the chaos, pressure, and duress
or real time conflict and its possibility to mutate unpredictably.
- Performs in equal and direct relationship with and in
response to conflict, resistance, and aggression.
- Enables and empowers officers with both the clear guidelines
and tactical means to handle any situation with the minimum
appropriate levels of force to overcome resistance as
it transpires and evolves.
- Readily permits rapid escalation and de-escalation of
force within every response level as it relates to the
resistance encountered.
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