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Tactical Philosophy 101

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When setting up my account, LinkedIn  asked me to find a "headline"...one that adequately captured the essence of my professional life. Nothing seemed to fit. That was, until I recalled a moniker jokingly given during hostage rescue training. It was a perfect paradox, representing the two contrasting aspects of my job:  Tactical Philosopher .  In the words of a friend, it labels me "a shooter who's a thinker and a thinker who's a shooter!" The words tactics and philosophy are divergent. Their ideas travel in completely opposite directions.  Tactics refers to the planning and implementation of a strategy. Philosophy gets to the underlying theory, concepts, and ethics of the situation. In short: Tactics asks How? Philosophy asks Why? And these are two critical, but wholly antagonistic questions. The framework of The Illinois Model. (Read  Tactics' Most Important Questions:  Why? and How?  for background on this theory.) So who and what

The Traits of a Universal Policing System - Applicable, Scalable, Adaptable.

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What is a universal policing system ? Well, nothing really exists of that nature outside our imagination. We have a vision of a Law Enforcement Operations System (shortened to LEOpSys , lee-OP-sis).  It takes into account the Before, During, and After aspects of any police incident: BEFORE: Policy, Training, Case Law. DURING: Intent, Decisions, Actions. AFTER: Reporting, Testimony, Evaluation. But there are several more aspects to this consistency of policing operations. This model must have wide application, scalability for size and scope, and fluidly adaptable.