Let’s be real folks, When looking for an expert witness, be warned of C.V. embellishers, the resume ‘padders’ and the ridiculous certification claims. You need to verify them! Your expert witness should have courses that can be proven with more than just a generic certificate. They should have courses that are of a national and federal standard. Not a course given by an unknown (insert “tacticool” name) on a topic that merely sounds exciting but really is just kind of a joke (8 hours of Field...

Law Enforcement agencies are stubborn when it comes to their chosen arrest control programs they use.  The question is why?  Most of these ‘one stop shop’ type programs incorporate made up concepts.  Here is an example.  A ‘Use of Force Continuum’.  This is a concept that teaches recruits and sworn officers that, if a subject does this (level of resistance) then you the officer can do this (use of force).    With these programs, you get a few posters with a flow chart of use of force, quite...

Have you ever tried to teach someone else’s lesson plan and power point, on short notice?  Even if you know the material, in general, you will be ‘off your game’!  Your timing will be way off.  You might find that you’re just reading off the slides and even your stories that you use to give real world examples will be off cadence and sound almost hollow and uninteresting. This is what you get if you choose poorly and hire an expert witness that chooses to use A.I. to write their opinion...