Blue Canary: For Cops By a Cop - The War on Cops

The War on Cops

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05/31/23 • 16 min

Blue Canary: For Cops By a Cop

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There are a lot of people, including those in our profession that don’t like to hear the phrase “War on Cops”. They feel it will promote the Us vs Them mentality and broaden the divide between the working police officer and the public they serve.

In 2014 Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown after Brown violently attacked him. That’s right, contrary to what you have heard from the media, social justice pundits and professional athletes the investigation, evidence and grand jury all agree that Darren Wilson was Michael Browns victim and that the shooting was in self-defense.

This incident sparked a year of national protest focusing on police and police brutality and the public attack against police and policing in America.

In 2016 Heather McDonald, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a conservative political commentator wrote The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. In this book she coined the term Ferguson Effect and detailed that affect while looking at the history of anti-police movements and decarceration activism. This really jump-started the conversation on violence against police officers.

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This incident sparked a year of national protest focusing on police and police brutality and the public attack against police and policing in America.

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Welcome to the Academy

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Police Academy is more than just a funny movie starring Steve Guttenberg from 1984. It is the basis for law enforcement across the United States and most of the world.

Police academies are training schools for recruit officers that provide the basic instruction on how to do job of a police officer. They include but are not limited to classes in firearms, physical control tactics, emergency driving, criminal law, arrest procedures, traffic stop procedures, medical skills, and emergency responses.

To get a look behind the challenges faced by police academies today I spoke with two experts in the field. Major Nick Luce of the Indiana University Police Department and Director of the Indiana University Police Academy and Lt. David Livingston the Director of the Mott Community College Law Enforcement Academy in Flint Michigan. Both had some interesting things to say regarding police academy training and how things have affected the programs over the years.

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Training Tactics with Scott Savage

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Today’s policing is more dangerous than ever. Staying sharp and following proper professional and tactical procedures is the key to staying alive and I couldn’t think of a better guest to talk to about this topic than Scott Savage.

Scott Savage began his career in public safety at age 19, first as an E.M.T and then as a licensed paramedic working in a busy emergency medical system. In 1999, he became a police officer with the Palo Alto Police Department in California where he worked assignments including Patrol, Narcotics, and SWAT. Scott has spent the last seven years with Palo Alto PD as a Sergeant, where I served as the Incident Commander for critical incidents and regularly supervised the police response to in-progress situations. After a great career with Palo Alto PD, he joined the Santa Clara Police Department (CA) as an Officer and continues to serve there today.

In 2019 Scott founded the Savage Training Group which provides high quality law enforcement training across the United States.