Lots of folks are talking about the poor performance of the Broward County Sheriff’s deputies during the recent Florida school shooting. The problem of police inaction goes way beyond this single agency. It’s system wide and present in nearly every law enforcement organization. A friend of mine wrote the article below to help explain some […]
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Protecting Against Terrorist Vehicle Attacks
Here is a guest post submitted by Don Boal, lead investigator for Ron Borsch’s PACT organization. Don has a very simple and useful idea for protecting pedestrian areas from terrorist vehicle attacks. Thanks to Don for submitting the article! -Greg HOW TO PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY FROM TERRORIST VEHICLE ATTACKS FOR FREE By […]
Active Killers Using Fire Alarms to Facilitate an Attack
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Everyone is talking about the latest school shooting and looking for solutions. I’ve been writing about how to solve this problem for more than a decade. It isn’t easy. While the ultimate solution will be found in prevention efforts, those efforts are both difficult to institute and costly. While […]
Tasers and “Vulnerable” Populations
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you are a police officer or are interested in police use of force, you owe it to yourself to read The Vulnerable. It’s one of a multi-part Reuters news report on police Taser use. The Taser has rapidly become the “go-to” force option on most officers’ duty […]
Don’t Dig the Rig #15
Written by Greg Ellifritz Concealed Nation has a regular feature on its website called #DIGTHERIG. It consists of reader submitted photos about their individual chosen concealed carry weapon and holster choices. A huge variety of guns and holsters are featured. Real people carry each of these gun and holster combinations. Unfortunately, some of […]
The Firearms Manifesto Part Two…Expanding the Arsenal
After people choose their first firearm, become comfortable with the idea of owning a gun, and perhaps gain a little proficiency with their gun handling skills, they will often want to add more guns to their collection. What guns should they buy next? If you haven’t read part one of this series, […]
The Best 1911?
Written by Greg Ellifritz I will state this right off the bat: I’m not a 1911 guy. I was fairly fond of them at one point. That was back before I actually learned how to shoot. My first year working at TDI cured me of desire to carry one defensively. In the beginning […]
The New Normal in Police Tactics
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you are at all interested in police training (or in seeing how poorly trained many cops are), you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes reading this article and watching the two videos contained within. Video shows Florida deputy fatally shooting man who was in a […]
Lessons Learned from the Egyptian Mosque Attack
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week we witnessed one of the largest terrorist attacks in recent history. Members of the Islamic State attacked a Sufi Mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai region. The terrorists killed 305 and wounded 128 more in the attack. For details, check out this CNN article. To understand why ISIS would […]
Identifying Criminals from the Contents of their Shopping Carts
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week at work, I filed warrant paperwork for a shoplifter who had stolen items from a grocery store. I realized that we have been seeing the same things stolen from grocery stores for the last couple years and wrote up a quick post on Facebook alerting folks to the trend. […]
A New Active Killer Trend and Eight Ways to Counter It
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Within the past couple weeks, we’ve seen two active killer incidents with large body counts. Interestingly, the killers in both events started shooting OUTSIDE their target location. Reading about the shooting last Tuesday, I stumbled across the following quote: “Because there were a series of gunshots about a quarter […]
Don’t Dig the Rig #14
Written by Greg Ellifritz Concealed Nation has a regular feature on its website called #DIGTHERIG. It consists of reader submitted photos about their individual chosen concealed carry weapon and holster choices. A huge variety of guns and holsters are featured. All are carried by someone. Unfortunately, some of the choices are less than […]
CREDIT BRAVE ARMED CITIZENS
This is a guest post from Ron Borsch. Ron is a very experienced trainer and one of the leading thinkers and researchers regarding the topic of active killer incidents. He has some very relevant commentary on two recent active killer incidents. -Greg The two recent incidents I will discuss highlight the utility of the […]
Purse Carry, CCW, and Police Interactions
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’ve heard some true horror stories about traffic stop interactions between cops and people with concealed carry handgun licenses. To be honest, while I occasionally hear about CCW carriers doing stupid things from my cop friends, I hear far more stories from my gun students about police officers acting paranoid […]
Church Safety
This is a guest post written by long-time police trainer Ron Borsch. Ron has been a friend for many years and has done more research on active killer events than likely anyone else in the world. Ron is now semi-retired and looking to write a little more. He will be contributing a few articles […]
Forming a Church Safety Team
This is a guest post from my friend Ron Borsch, a retired police officer and well known law enforcement trainer. He has been doing some consulting in the field of church safety and has come up with some great ideas about forming a church security team. Check out his article and all the […]
The 2016 LEOKA Report- Studying the Cop Killers
Written by: Greg Ellifritz The FBI recently released its annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report. According to the FBI webpage: “The FBI publishes Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted each year to provide information about officers who were killed, feloniously or accidentally, and those officers who were assaulted while performing their […]
Equally Lumpy on Both Sides
It’s been awhile since I’ve shared the writing of Henry, the old man from Tennessee. After several of you have requested more from Henry, I decided to share this post. Henry has written several articles for my site in the past (look at the bottom of the post for links to his other articles). […]
Deep Concealment Options for the “Non-Permissive Environment”
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I enjoyed the days off from my police and teaching jobs by going to a couple of concerts. I really enjoy seeing live music, but I don’t enjoy the “security” ordeals at most live music venues. One of the venues I attended did patdown searches. The other used […]
Don’t Dig the Rig #13
Written by Greg Ellifritz Concealed Nation has a regular feature on its website called #DIGTHERIG. It consists of reader submitted photos about their individual chosen concealed carry weapon and holster choices. A huge variety of guns and holsters are featured. All are carried by someone. Unfortunately, some of the choices are less than […]