![]() ![]() “Increasingly the police must face organized opponents armed with assault rifles and bombs,” Grossman says at the outset of the class, citing an “explosion in violent crime” and an “extraordinary rise in violence” in the streets of America. Grossman’s America is a terrifying place where police are both the primary targets of and defenders against superpredation. He musters scientific research, anecdotal evidence, and a boatload of presuppositions in order to prepare his students for the realities of combat, while valorizing the notion that the thin blue line is humanity’s last bulwark against total societal collapse. ![]() Under the aegis of his Killology Research Group-he defines killology as “the scholarly study of the destructive act, just as sexology is the scholarly study of the procreative act”-Grossman travels the country offering continuing-education seminars to cops and cop-adjacents. But another answer is that there is a cottage industry of trainers and consultants who encourage police to see their beats as a battlefield.Ī retired Army lieutenant colonel with a master’s of education in counseling psychology, Dave Grossman is one of America’s best-known independent police trainers-and one of the foremost exponents of the “warrior cop” mindset. ![]() As Radley Balko writes in his 2013 Rise of the Warrior Cop, much of it has to do with federal incentives for police departments to pursue this country’s endless war on drugs. There are a lot of reasons for this evolution. ![]()
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