And just about every time, once you start moving backwards, things just go bad, because then it puts an idea in the mind of the subject that you’re acting like a prey. And you often see the officer backing away. Lee Shaykhet: Well, when you look at the video, you can clearly see the results of prior training, because the officer in distress basically reverts to what they’ve been trained to do. What are your thoughts on how we can look at these videos? Hopefully in most cases these officers are okay at the end of the day, but we’ve seen, tragically, sometimes, not. There are so many videos that we can watch now and learn from them. Everyone has one of these, and there are so many videos of officers being assaulted, being shot, stabbed, all different manners of attack. So, basically, that’s exactly what I do.ĭoug Wyllie: We were talking earlier about what we can learn from mobile phones. And then, from there on, it’s somewhat of a no-brainer. And he also advised first, to acquire a winning hand, a good position. Sun Tzu said that most battles are won or lost before they get started. So that gives me an opportunity to control them or whatever action is appropriate at that time. Because that way, as you correctly pointed out, since they can’t see me, they can’t really do anything to me until they reacquire me as a target. I’d like to get in my favorite place, which is behind the subject’s back, or six o’clock position. What you want to do is immediately get out of the kill zone. So, basically, we’re behind to start with. Oftentimes the priorities in which the officer addresses this threat are somewhat backwards because we always try to do it quickly and to kind of get ahead of the subject, but because of the concept of the OODA loop, since they already made their observation, the orientation, they already decided what they’re going to do. I’d like to be positioned behind the subject, what you might call a six o’clock position. You are, what I would call, in a kill zone. In other words, if you stand in front of the subject, he can clearly see you, which means he can shoot you, stab you. As a matter of fact, if we’re going to apply OODA loop to this concept, the first O in the OODA Loop stands for observation. But in a law enforcement context, if you’re in a deadly fight, those ideas apply, correct? We talk about speed, surprise and violence of action in the military context. So, you get inside their OODA loop and you then have the element of surprise. You’re doing the absolute unexpected, the opposite of what they’re expecting you to do. For me, the thing that came to mind was you’re breaking the OODA loop of the subject. This is just one example of that, but a lot of problems get worse when we startbacking up and acting like a prey.ĭoug Wyllie: You talk about closing daylight and eliminating daylight. He’s used to, and he’s expecting – anticipating – you backing up. He does not expect you to come right at him. It’s also very surprising to the subject. And what happens in that application is that there is no room for him to turn the weapon onto you. You want to make contact and drive right through. And by collapsing this distance – actually, call the distance between you and the bad guy daylight – you want to see zero daylight. Now, the appropriate response would be a predator response, whereas, instead of going backwards, you go forward through the target. And you’re actually helping the bad guy shoot you. By stepping backwards, you would still be what you might call in a kill zone. The worst possible thing in the world you can do is step backwards. Maybe you knocked on the door, the door opens and here is this guy with a long gun. Unfortunately, when you begin to act like a prey, things go in one direction: from bad to worse.Ī good example would be you come up on a person with some kind of long gun. When you start going backwards, you begin to act like a prey. And oftentimes it’s too late to go backwards. A lot of different scenarios police officers learn in response to aggression used to be, and still is, unfortunately, to step back and to create distance or reactionary gaps.Īlthough there may be a time when this is appropriate, normally we operate in very close proximity to the subject. Lee Shaykhet: First, a little bit of an explanation about predator versus prey and how that applies to law enforcement applications.
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