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 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do “De-escalation” efforts always work? Absolutely NOT! There is NO such thing as a single word or phrase, some magical word or phrase, that will just “de-escalate” a person or situation! Yet the general public continues to convince itself,...
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 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
You go to training but are you “trainable”? What is your attitude? Your mindset? Do you already “know it all”? I was in the Army as an infantryman, and we would be out in the field pretty regularly to train, we’d play war games, and...
by John Riley | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Could a social worker have stopped Ma’Khia Bryant? A very large number of people have been reposting the attached image on instagram, and it is just further proof that just because a person has PhD or a Masters degree it absolutely DOES NOT mean they know...
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