Is the current model of US police training broken beyond repair?
NOTE: This is not an article about physical fitness training. It's an analogy on disruption, innovation, integration, and overall fighting the industrialized machine. Last week, I tweeted that I'm gonna do to police training what Greg Glassman & CrossFit did to the fitness industry. A few days later, I posted fifty tweets under the hashtag #MyPoliceAcademy - where I discussed what I changes I would make if given the opportunity to design my own basic police recruit academy. Together, they were bold statements, a lofty vision, and taken as insult to many. But this is no apology. In about 2006, I was introduced to CrossFit , a company that revolutionized the physical fitness industry. Its philosophy was to produce athletes with generalized fitness abilities, through complicated functional movements, high intensity, and the bare essentials of equipment. CrossFit's founder Greg Glassman entered into the fitness industry fighting corporate-sized gyms,