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Deadly Force Encounters, Second Edition: Cops and Citizens Defending Themselves and Others Paperback – December 26, 2019
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The greatly expanded scientific research, stories, and analysis in this second edition, Deadly Force Encounters: Cops and Citizens Defending Themselves and Others, focus on the most infrequent but most challenging part of the police profession: the use of deadly force. This book is not about specific laws, tactics, or equipment, but how the science of human performance influences the people behind the badge. This knowledge is crucial for physical, legal, and emotional survival.
Citizens, armed or not, will benefit from the information to help them survive violent threats. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." If citizens use deadly force to survive, this book will help them prepare for the legal and emotional challenges of the aftermath.
Although the focus is about savings lives when threatened with violence, much of the information is relevant to people facing a wide variety of extreme events and everyday dangers.
All readers who want facts about violent encounters rather than myth and ill-informed hyperbole will find this book a useful reference.
Foreward by Laurence Miller, Ph.D., clinical, forensic, and police psychologist, and author of the upcoming book: The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters: Science, Practice, and Policy (Charles C. Thomas, 2020): "Already a classic, the second edition of Deadly Force Encounters expands and deepens the empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge base of police deadly force encounters for the challenges of the 21st century. Written by co-authors who skillfully combine in-depth scholarship with on-the-street experience, this is an authoritative guide that every law enforcement supervisor, policymaker, and rank and file cop should be familiar with and have on hand for day-to-day guidance. You won't just read this book; you'll deploy it as a vital work tool to make you safer, smarter, and more resilient in the complex and sometimes contentious climate of modern policing. In a field often plagued with subjective impressions, anecdotal mythology, and political agendas, this volume stands out as a science-based, practical guide to understanding, preparing for, enduring, and recovering from a law enforcement deadly force encounter with your safety and sanity intact."
Introduction
Chapter 1: Shootout with the Devil
Chapter 2: The Survival Triangle
Chapter 3: Community Policing
Chapter 4: Human Performance Factors
Chapter 5: Mindset
Chapter 6: Fear
Chapter 7: Responses to Handgun Wounds are Unpredictable
Chapter 8: Citizens: Force Multipliers
Chapter 9: Attention, Perception, and Memory
Chapter 10: Decision making
Chapter 11: The Survival Bias in Decision making
Chapter 12: Training
Chapter 13: Legal Survival
Chapter 14: Investigations and the Courtroom
Chapter 15: Short-term Reactions to a Deadly Force Encounter
Chapter 16: Traumatic Stress Reactions
Chapter 17: Police Officer Job Stress
Chapter 18: Organizational Stress
Chapter 19: Resiliency
Chapter 20: Impact on Families
Bibliography
About the Authors
- Print length546 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 26, 2019
- Dimensions6 x 1.23 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101650012195
- ISBN-13978-1650012193
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- Publisher : Independently published (December 26, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 546 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1650012195
- ISBN-13 : 978-1650012193
- Item Weight : 1.59 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.23 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #559,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #736 in Violence in Society (Books)
- #1,741 in Criminology (Books)
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About the authors
As a professional writer since 1978, Mr. Christensen has penned over 70 published books with six publishers, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for seven years. He has written on the martial arts, the paranormal, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, riots, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. Of late, he has been writing an award-winning police thriller fiction series called Dukkha. His short stories—OLD ED, BOSS, and Parts—are popular among fans of gritty action.
His books have been translated into five languages. Policing Saigon and On Combat are also published as audio books.
The Masters Hall of Fame inductee began training in the martial arts in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the years, he has earned a 1st-degree black belt in arnis, a 2nd-degree black belt in jujitsu, and in 2018, the American Karate Black Belt Association awarded Loren a 10th-degree black belt in karate. As a result of his tour in Vietnam and nearly three decades in law enforcement, Mr. Christensen's focus in the martial arts—writing, teaching, and training—has always been on street survival, not competition. He has starred in seven martial arts training videos.
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Dr. Alexis Artwohl is a retired clinical and police psychologist who provided traumatic incident debriefings to numerous public safety personnel and citizens in the Pacific Northwest. She co-authored two books with Loren Christensen, published research in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and the Law Enforcement Executive Forum, contributed chapters to books, and authored magazine articles. She has provided training to law enforcement since 1990 and applies the lessons learned from police combat to CCW training as well. Her website is www.alexisartwohl.com
I never set out to work with police officers or write any books. Early in my career, fate led me to connect with veterans and police officers. Inspired by their courage and resiliency, I knew I had found my calling as a clinical psychologist specializing in recovery from trauma. The officers themselves were the impetus for the book. I viewed my task as a traumatic incident debriefer as primarily that of a trainer: to educate officers about human performance research, especially performance under stress. They are the ones who asked me to start training their colleagues in the classroom. They also encouraged me to put the information into a book.
At the same time, my co-author Loren Christensen asked if he could interview me for a book he wanted to write about officer-involved shootings. I told him I was also considering writing a book to so we teamed up, and the first edition of Deadly Force Encounters was born.
The human performance factors we discuss in both editions of Deadly Force Encounters are timeless. They apply to people from all walks of life as they negotiate the perils of life on Earth. We hope you find insights that will help you with your journey. First responders, veterans, and citizens honored us by sharing their stories with us. There was room for only a few in the books, but everyone's voices echo throughout nevertheless. We thank everyone who steps up to the plate to make their community a better and safer place.
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Second failing is the authors not even mentioning the landmark research on explanatory self–atribution style by Martin Seligman, Ph.D. is another glaring omission in the chapter on resilience. Shame, Shame!
But overall, 97% of the book's content is gold; and at most, 3% is dross.
Well worth a careful read.
The best part of the book is that it is heavily supported by academic research, but written and organized considerably better when compared to trying to find the proverbial "needle in a haystack" when searching dry and poorly written academic journals.
Chuck J. Rylant
Author of "Shots Fired: The Psychology Behind Officer Involved Shootings."
One sucessful and likely intended effect is that it paints a very sympathetic picture of what happens in stressful situations and how there are many common sense assumptions and myths that are in error, the reality of what some of the officers go through as the result, and even an acknowledgement that PTSD is an actual thing that actually effects people, including police. I liked particularly how the point is driven home that post-shooting investigations can involved misguided second-guessing that often does not take certain realities into account.
However, one problematic effect I can only conclude is also intended is that the book has a decidely socio-political bent, which culminates ridiculously when the discussion reaches the work of E.O. Wilson. At this point, the authors' own bias against what is essentially a characture of the "liberal/Marxist/academic/ingrate civilian" who is beneath contempt rears it's ugly head. It's quite hard to imagine an editor didn't say, "Really, are you sure you want these paragraphs to read like this?" Resoundingly, the answer was, "Yes". I'll confine myself to two remarks about the disappointment here:
1. The authors seem capable putting science to work in order to susped judgement and bias to argue for considering complexity in analysis of such difficult situations, which is better for everyone.
2. The authors undermine their own credibility by letting their true colors bleed through the sensible narrative, with their own biases, which is bad for criminals, liberals and academics and good for cops. So much for reducing stereotypes, this book only enforces them.