- Fighting Complacency Reminder: Nothing We Do is Routine, NOTHING!!!
- Street Level Red Teaming: The Cop Killer
- Street Level Red Teaming: Assessing The Situation From the Adversarial Point of View
- Take A.I.M. and Prepare To Win Dynamic Encounters
- Don't Charge Police for Mistakes
- What is a Threat?
- Benefits of Conditioning Our Decision Making...The Boyd Cycle
- Superior Situational Awareness and Decision Making...Attributes And Skills of Full Spectrum Officers
- Earning "The Right to Lead" With Character and Courage
- JUSTIFIED: Are You Serious? The Balancing Act of Persuasion, and Reasonable Force
- Adaptive Leader Methodology: An Alternative for Better Outcomes
- When Do We Teach the Basics?
- Positive Leadership: Invest in People Building a Culture of Innovation
- Harnessing The Street Cops Wisdom: Taking Whole of Conflict...And Effective Full Spectrum Responses
- Beyond Active Response: An Operational Concept for Police Counterterrorism Response
- The Badge: Much More Than a Piece of Medal
- Wellbeing Check to Knife Attack: Anticipation-The Double Edged Sword and its Affect on Winning and Losing, Up Close and Personal
- Fast Transients, Manipulating the Tempo of Conflict: Disrupting and Confusing Our Adversary via Full Spectrum Response
- Leadership By Wandering Around!
- Defeat into Victory: Battling a Tough Climate with Faith, Perseverance and Lessons Learned
- Evolving Threats and the Fourth Generation Warfare Problem Here at Home
- We were ready, they weren't...40 Years after Newhall, Are We Applying Lessons Learned?
- When Violence Prevention Fails, Planning Must Enhance Strategy
- After Action Review: Is It a Tool Used to Learn and Become More Effective or a Tool Used to Punish?
- Maintaining Mental Calmness and Not Losing Our Cool
- Evolution of Strategy and Tactics to Ongoing Deadly Action "Active Shootings" and Operational Art
- Interaction, Insight and Imagination, and Initiative...The Building Blocks of Police Operational Art
- Coffee and Conversation: Is "Officer Friendly" a Factor to Consider in Engagements with Our Adversary?
- Coffee and Conversation: "Sharpening Our Orientation" and Reducing Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
- Coffee and Conversation: Police Make Mistakes But Seldom Admit Them! What's Reasonable?
- Coffee and Conversation: The Tactical Decision Maker: The Devil's Definitely in the Details
- Coffee and Conversation: "Self Awareness" The Forgotten Attribute of Decision Making
- Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: Walking our Talk to Officer Safety
- Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: The Inevitable Failure of Suburbia?
- Law Enforcement and the Utility of Force...Why Cops Can't Shoot Like the Lone Ranger?
- Tactics: Applying Methods to Madness
Police News
LESC Links August 17th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 5:45pm.Street Level Red Teaming: The Cop Killer
By Fred Leland
LESC Links August 2nd 2010
Submitted by Fred on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 9:58am.I have been off the Blog over the last month busy with both work and some vacation. Hope all has bee better than good with all of you. As I write this 101 police officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year. this is a 28% increase over last year. Not a very good statistic and one we should be striving to decrease. Striving with all we have to become more effective on the street.
LESC Links July 3rd 2010
Submitted by Fred on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 9:06am.Happy Independence Day!
Independence Day is about freedom and freedom is what we work hard to uphold in performing our duties. Always remember and never lose sight of that. Enjoy the holiday with your families and if your working out on the streets….BE SAFE!
LESC LINKS June 24th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 4:40pm.JUSTIFIED: Are You Serious? The Balancing Act of Persuasion, and Reasonable Force
Seattle police say they'll review police tactics and training after an officer was shown on video punching a young woman in the face.
LESC Links June 12th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Sat, 06/12/2010 - 9:36am.Adaptive Leader Methodology: An Alternative for Better Outcomes
By Don Vandergriff and Fred Leland
It was an honor and privilege to work on this article with my good friend Don Vandergriff. Our hope is you all get some ideas you can utilize making yourselves and your organizations more effective. ~Fred
LESC Links June 5th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:17am.When Do We Teach the Basics?
Don Vandergriff has put together another fine article and guide to making more effective decision makers.
LESC Links June 2nd 2010
Submitted by Fred on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 6:58am.Positive Leadership: Invest in People Building a Culture of Innovation
By Fred Leland
‘The basis of courage is individual initiative. If we cannot act alone, we cannot act together.” ~John Maxwell
LESC Links May 26th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 7:20pm.Understanding the Objectively Reasonable Standard
Police supervisors and training officers are clearly vested with the solemn duty to protect the safety of the men and women entrusted to their care. Sadly, the law enforcement profession suffers painful losses each year, some of which seem unavoidable given the inherent risks of police work.
LESC Links May 20th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 7:12pm.Stratfor: Setting the Record Straight on Grassroots Jihadism
In the wake of the botched May 1 Times Square attack, some observers have begun to characterize Faisal Shahzad and the threat he posed as some sort of new or different approach to terrorism in the United States.
LESC Links May 12th 2010
Submitted by Fred on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 7:35pm.AU: Workplace bullying – don’t be caught out in the crackdown
With all the activity surrounding the introduction of Modern Awards and the National Employment Standards under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (“FW Act”), employers should be mindful not to drop the ball with their other legal obligations, in particular those under occupational health and safety (“OHS”) laws.
