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Officer-Involved Shootings

The Officer-Involved Shootings topic page provides news about cops in deadly confrontations, as well as tactical tips and columnists’ perspective on how to handle such situations. Most police officers will go through an entire career without discharging their weapon in the commission of their job. But on a daily basis, every single officer thinks about being in a gunfight.
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News

Video: Suspect ambushes Ohio police with hail of gunfire

The suspect was killed in the intense altercation, both officers were treated for non-life threatening injuries - Full Story

News

Police shoot man in Utah police dept. lobby

Police shoot man in Utah police dept. lobby

A man entered the department, asked for an officer to come out from behind the partition, and pulled a gun before he was shot - Full Story

Columns

Staring down a would-be cop killer: Loraine Burger - Perspectives on Policing

Staring down a would-be cop killer: "He couldn't stand me looking at him"

Officer Dan Doherty looked on as Judge Jillian Abrahamson sentenced Myles Webster to 60-years-to-life in prison for the attempted assassination of the Manchester (N.H.) cop. - Full Story

Columns

A manifesto, a manhunt, and a murderous mess Doug Wyllie, PoliceOne Editor in Chief - 10-43: Be Advised...

A manifesto, a manhunt, and a murderous mess

Cops across California are looking for Christopher Jordan Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant and ex-LAPD po... - Full Story

Videos

Robbery suspect fires at cops, is killed

Read the full story: http://www.policeone.com/Patrol-Video/articles/5932786-Video-Robber-opens-fire-on-Fla-officers-is-killed/

Exclusives

The 'excited utterance' and officer-involved trauma

The 'excited utterance' and officer-involved trauma

In making 'spontaneous exclamations' or 'res gestae statements' following a critical incident, an officer is merely trying to construct a narrative that makes sense to a freshly-traumatized brain. - Full Story

Exclusives

You've been in a critical incident... now what?

You've been in a critical incident... now what?

Comparing some poorly-understood concept of real PTSD to a normal human reaction to a tragic event is a mistake of massive proportion. - Full Story

In-depth News

Calif. cop shot, killed by fellow officers during arrest

Calif. cop shot, killed by fellow officers during arrest

The Santa Maria police officer under arrest on suspicious of sex with a teenage minor fired his gun before another officer fatally shot him at a DUI checkpoint where he'd been working. - Full Story

Tips

Precinct invasion: 5 lessons learned from a bloody attack

At the IACP annual conference last fall, two separate panels were devoted to debriefing what happened... - Full Story Secure - Law Enforcement Only



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Officer-Involved Shootings Columnists

Bringing the Street to the Range Bringing the Street to the Range
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