The courses are well-known and popular in law enforcement circles. The Bulletproof Warrior is one of 15 sessions offered by Calibre and its parent company, LifeLine Training. “Nobody should be judging what he did yet without the evidence.” “Everybody’s going after this kid,” Glennon said Wednesday. Jim Glennon, a co-owner of Calibre who co-taught the seminar Yanez attended, said it’s wrong to link the course to the officer’s actions last week. We train officers to treat people with dignity and respect.” “We go to bed every night knowing that we did the right thing. “Our mission is to save everyone’s lives,” said Calibre CEO Lisa Gitchell. “Police training became very militaristic and it caused a lot of the problems that are going on in the nation,” said Michael Becar, executive director of the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, with offices in Idaho and Washington, D.C.Ĭalibre recently changed the name of its Bulletproof Warrior course after complaints from police departments about the implication of the word “warrior.”īut owners of the company accuse the media of routinely distorting its message, twisting it to say the company’s programs train officers to kill. Officer Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last week, sparking national outcry. The Houston Police Department, for example, won’t pay for its officers to attend the Bulletproof Warrior seminar, which is put on by an Illinois for-profit company called Calibre Press.Īnd the leader of an international police training association said he thinks some seminars like those offered by Calibre and other firms foster a sense of paranoia among officers. But some in law enforcement are distancing themselves from the approach. He’s now known around the world as the officer who killed Philando Castile minutes after making a traffic stop in Falcon Heights last week.Īmid intensifying demands for changes in police training in the wake of the shooting deaths of Castile and others, such “survival” courses for officers are flourishing nationally.
Anthony police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, city records show. In the audience at the May 2014 seminar was a young St. Videos of bloody shootouts between police and civilians emphasized a key point: Hesitation can kill you. The seminar was called “The Bulletproof Warrior,” and the instructors urged the law enforcement officers in the hotel conference room to make the decision to shoot if they ever feel their lives are threatened.
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