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Crisis negotiating

Learn how drones and two-way communications devices are reinventing how law enforcement responds to incidents
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As an LAPD SWAT team leader and crisis negotiator, Jonathan explains how crisis negotiation skills help officers in tactical situations and everyday patrol
Communication with organizers before, during and after events can help head off problems
Effective crisis management and resolution rely on a different aspect of the situational awareness that keeps us alive
The man suspected of holding about a dozen people against their will Thursday remained inside a Mississippi boarding house
Officials say the woman fired a gun at a crisis-negotiation robot, hit it with a broom and threw a cover over it
Police are praising a dispatcher for persuading a gunman to surrender after he allegedly shot and killed three people, wounded two others and fired on officers
With 6 billion texts exchanged daily in the U.S., officers are increasingly being called upon to defuse violent situations through the typed word