by John Riley | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Epic De-escalation Fail by Deputies results in fatal shooting of a young man suffering through a mental health crisis. It absolutely was avoidable. The incident occurred on June 10, 2022, in Clear Creek County, Colorado, and the body-cam video, dispatch audio and all...
by John Riley | May 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Your size and shape can and will escalate a situation! A point I make in my training seminars is to encourage students to be aware of how they appear and come across to another person, especially if that other person is stressed and agitated. Larger, wider, taller...
by John Riley | May 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Your appearance, the A in your ACE, will do more to effectively de-escalate a situation. A guy I know from church recently may have proved one of my main precepts: That your appearance can shape another person’s thoughts, feelings and actions without a word...
by John Riley | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
You spend 26 years of your life in the Marine Corps, crawl your way to the top, you’ve made it, and it only takes 15 seconds to escalate a situation and throw away an illustrious career. There is a video on Youtube from 2014 showing a Marine Command Sergeant...
by John Riley | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finger Pointing Escalates Into Trashing Of McDonald’s. High, VERY high, on the list of things NOT to do when interacting with an angry person is – Do not point your finger at them! This recent incident at a McDonald’s in Indianapolis has several...
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