Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The hope is they’ll never have to use their training. But in a country where the once unthinkable is happening, local and federal law enforcement can’t take any chances. The Sacramento Bee reports that local and federal law enforcement conducted a training drill at the Westfield Roseville Galleria to prepare for the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Transgender people are disproportionately harmed by violence – so much so that the Justice Department is training law enforcement how to handle them as crime victims. The idea is to help identify hate crimes and build more trust with law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. “It’s clear that such a training is as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA has spent $1 billion on training airport security screeners to read body language. Trouble is, critics charges there’s no evidence that the training prevented a single act of terrorism, the New York Times reports. Scientific experiments show that people are terrible at spotting liars, and law enforcement is no exception….
By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a capital crime. Yet since 2010, some 20 people have been fatally shot by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. The head of the Border Patrol has taken the correct and necessary step of making clear to his agents that using…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Automatic spending cuts last year resulted in the elimination of more than 2,000 FBI jobs and a freeze on training for new agents. Now the FBI is ready to hire and restart training, the Washington Post reports. FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that he’s authorized the opening of 700 positions throughout…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s firearm training has begun focusing on close-quarters combat after a review found that most agent-involved shootings are within point-blank range, the USA Today reports. The new training protocol is a dramatic shift for an agency that has relied on long-range marksmanship training. After reviewing about 200 shootings during a 17-year…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com His department under federal oversight, Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck is to attend a 10-week course at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA., the Portland Daily Sun reports. “It’s a lifelong goal from a law enforcement perspective,” Sauschuck told the newspaper. The academy offered its first classes to 23 students in…
