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That’s the ‘why’ of the book. This is what I bring to the table:

For seventeen years, I was a corrections officer and sergeant working booking, maximum security, and mental health units. During that time, I trained corrections and enforcement officers^* primarily in force-related skills, like defensive tactics (hand-to-hand fighting and arrest techniques) and force policy.

Working direct supervision corrections (and especially booking) exposes a young officer to a wide variety of ‘difficult people.’ I was told early in my career that two years in booking would result in more experience with hand-to-hand fighting than a career in enforcement. I don’t know if that is true. I do know that I have instructed a group of enforcement officers with 180 years of cumulative experience and had more force incidents than all of them combined.

In the course of my duties, I spent more than a decade on the Tactical Team, much of that as the team leader. We were the ones who got called when no one else felt confident about handling the situation. I was trained (but did not serve) as a Hostage Negotiator. I was, for a time, the sergeant designated to handle problems with mentally ill inmates.