Jim’s real world experience as a cop for over 29 years and his contacts with tens of thousands of officers in the U.S. Jim Glennon (ret), nationally recognized trainer, Street Survival Seminar lead instructor for over 15 years, award winning columnist, well-regarded expert in communication skills the tactical mindset, and owner of Calibre Press. He brought to this text the latest tactics and techniques, the evolution, if you will, of the skill sets first introduced by Remsberg over three decades ago.Īssisting him is Lt. Dan’s brilliance is in his forward thinking, his understanding of what is needed for today’s police officer, his street experience, and in his ability to put words on a page that people want to read. Dan Marcou (ret), an accomplished trainer, tactical officer, and author of several books to spearhead the update and rewrite. In that, we spend time discussing danger cues and preattack indicators at length.Ĭalibre Press tapped Lt. We address knives as well as the dangers of a person committed to do great bodily harm with hands, elbows, feet and knees. Broadening our focus beyond just an adversary with a gun. Instead of Tactics for Armed Encounters we changed it to Tactics for Deadly Force Encounters. As we examined the original text in preparation for its much-requested update, we found that much of what Chuck wrote in 1980 is still valid and applicable for today’s police officers.įor this update, we kept the original title of the book while making two slight adjustments: We added the Roman Numeral II and changed the subtitle. He was also sharing tactics that many officers had never even heard of. Chuck introduced a new way of thinking about training and preparation, mindset and systemic philosophies. It was published when there was no internet at a time when law enforcement training, for the most part, was insular done in-house by self-taught practitioners. In the first edition of Street Survival, Chuck brought together stories, tactics, and techniques from officers from all over the country. Nor did he have any idea that he was also creating a movement.

At that time, he had no idea that he was writing perhaps the best selling law enforcement book of all time. The primary author of the original Street Survival: Tactics for Armed Encounters, published in 1980, was Chuck Remsberg.

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