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| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The S.W.A.T. Workout Stewart Smith, Peter Field Peck, Jody Taylor, 2006-03-01 Describes the rigorous physical training tactics employed by America's Special Weapons And Tactics teams, outlining a six-week program of calisthenics, weights, and speed drills as well as a twelve-week program designed to keep physical performance at a top level, in a reference that is complemented by demonstrative photographs and nutrition tips. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Cold Zero Christopher Whitcomb, 2014-07-01 For the first time a member of the F.B.I.Us elite Hostage Rescue Team--its most highly trained and specialized squadron that handles large-scale emergencies in the U.S.--reveals his experiences, describing in breathtaking detail the brutal training, the weapons and tactics, and the dramatic showdowns that marked many of his missions, including Ruby Ridge and Waco. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: No Heroes Danny O. Coulson, Daniel Coulson, Sharon Shannon, Elaine Shannon, 2001 Cataloging some of the most notorious criminal events of the last 30 years, Coulson, the creator of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, provides firsthand accounts and reflective personal opinions of his experiences in bringing hundreds of murderous extremists and killers to justice--from the Black Liberation Army to the sieges at Ruby Ridge and Waco. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Rise of the Warrior Cop Radley Balko, 2021-06-01 This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The CIA and FBI Collard, 2013-08-01 Explains The CIA And The FBI, Threats Of Terrorism, And The Potential Solutions To Rid The World Of Terrorist Attacks. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: SWAT Greve, 2014-08-01 Book Features: • 24 pages, 10 inches x 7 inches • Ages 9-14, Grade 4-8 leveled readers • Simple, easy-to-read pages with real-life photographs • Features vocabulary, background knowledge, and comprehension and extension activities • Includes reading tips, glossary, index, and timeline The Magic Of Reading: Introduce your child to the magic of reading with Emergency Response SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics. The 32-page police book features vibrant photographs and a deep dive into the elite U.S. police and military forces. Hands-On Reading Adventure: Jump into the action and learn about the history, education, expertise, challenges, and risk related to being in the U.S. police and military task forces in this swat team book for kids. Features: More than just an action-packed story, this kids book also includes a vocabulary list, reading tips for mid-story interaction and engagement, and extension and comprehension activities. A glossary, index, and timeline are also included. Leveled Books: Vibrant photographs and leveled text work together to engage readers and promote reading comprehension skills. This leveled book engages 4th—8th graders through new vocabulary and high-interest topics like military and police officers. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Bullets, Bombs and Fast Talk James Botting, 2008 From the Publisher: A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers. A neo-Nazi militant in a cabin hideout keeps federal agents at bay with gunfire. A baby disappears; his only trace is an ominous ransom call to his parents. Prisoners riot, threatening the lives of prison officers and hundreds of other inmates. How do you react? What do you do? What do you say? Your words, your actions can save lives-or lose them. James Botting faced these challenges and daily pressures during a fascinating and demanding twenty-five-year career as an FBI hostage negotiator. He found himself involved-sometimes peripherally, more often personally-in many of the FBI's most famous events since the 1970s. From Ruby Ridge to Waco, Patty Hearst to Rodney King, and Wounded Knee to TWA 847, Botting was there and on the spot. Along the way hostage negotiation techniques evolved, changing from play-it-by-ear and shoot-from-the-hip to a carefully choreographed psychological game of life and death. Botting was involved every step of the way. In Bullets, Bombs, and Fast Talk: Twenty-five Years of FBI War Stories, Botting vividly describes these events and more as only a participant can. He reviews the successes and the times the FBI fell short. He chillingly recounts a number of times when death seemed inevitable, only to come through unscathed. Botting pulls no punches with this gritty, detailed, and often humorous insider's account of life at the end of a gun as an FBI hostage negotiator. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: A Guide to the Development of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams John A. Kolman, 1982 This text discusses the organization, manning, and training of a highly disciplined Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, outlines necessary equipment and weapons, and illustrates tactical procedures for hostage-taking and barricaded suspect incidents. A SWAT team should be organized only if the need and resources exist. Smaller departments can organize as-needed teams while larger departments may prefer full-time teams. Team members should include a commander, team leader, scout, backup, marksman, spotter, gasman, and paramedics. Because team members must be mentally stable, able to work well in teams, and in good physical shape, the guide advises screening applicants on the basis of years of duty, personality test scores, physical condition, and past performance. Background investigations should be conducted for applicants who pass these tests. Equipment needs, for individual members and the team as a whole, include rifles and sidearms, gas masks, grenades, knives, radios, lights, battering rams, and public address systems, as well as special uniforms and headgear. The team's logistical superiority depends on regular testing of equipment and training in its use. Training exercises should cover team movement, firearms and use of chemical agents, freeway and street procedures, rappelling (rope climbing/descending), team driving, and hostage-incident and barricade simulations. A suggested 1-week training program is presented. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The Federal Bureau of Investigation [2 volumes] Douglas M. Charles, Aaron J. Stockham, 2022-05-18 This authoritative set provides a one-stop resource for understanding specific FBI controversies as well as for those looking to understand the full history, law enforcement authority, and inner workings of the nation's most famous and important federal law enforcement agency. This authoritative two-volume reference resource uses a combination of encyclopedia entries and primary sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the FBI, detailing its history, most famous leaders and agents, institutional structure and authority, law enforcement responsibilities, reporting relationships to other parts of government, and major events and controversies. Today the FBI sits squarely at the intersection of major controversies surrounding the presidential campaign and administration of Donald Trump, foreign interference in U.S. elections, and politicization of law enforcement. But the FBI has always been in the political spotlight—its history is dotted with episodes that have come under heavy scrutiny, from its surveillance of civil rights leaders during the 1960s to the methods it employs to combat domestic terrorism in the post-9/11 era. And all the while, FBI agents and offices across the country continue to investigate a wide range of lawbreaking, from organized crime (in all its facets) to white-collar crime and corruption by public officials. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: SWAT Madness and the Militarization of the American Police A. James Fisher, 2010-09-02 The facts are disturbing: Every year in the United States, Swat teams conduct predawn, no-knock raids of at least 50,000 homes looking for drugs. Unfortunately, a substantial percentage of these assaults occur at the wrong addresses, and law-abiding citizens who mistakenly kill SWAT officers thinking they are criminal home invaders often end up on death row. In the United States, military-style police enforcement is fast becoming the norm--even the smallest police departments now field costly SWAT units. While the fact that police forces have increased capabilities to deal with urgent or dangerous situations may seem positive, this type of aggressive response is problematic: court settlements regarding excessive SWAT raids cost law enforcement agencies millions of dollars every year, not to mention that these bruteforce strategies often traumatize, injure, and kill innocent people. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Endless Enemies Raymond Holcomb, 2011 An FBI agent's adventures in fighting terrorists. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The Secrets of the FBI Ronald Kessler, 2012-08-07 New York Times bestselling author reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets, with an insider look at the bureau’s inner workings and intelligence investigations. Based on inside access and hundreds of interviews with federal agents, the book presents an unprecedented, authoritative window on the FBI's unique role in American history. From White House scandals to celebrity deaths, from cult catastrophes to the investigations of terrorists, stalkers, Mafia figures, and spies, the FBI becomes involved in almost every aspect of American life. Kessler shares how the FBI caught spy Robert Hanssen in its midst as well as how the bureau breaks into homes, offices, and embassies to plant bugging devices without getting caught. With revelations about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the recent Russian spy swap, Marilyn Monroe's death, Vince Foster’s suicide, and even J. Edgar Hoover, The Secrets of the FBI presents headline-making disclosures about the most important figures and events of our time. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: SWAT Teams Robert L. Snow, 2013-11-11 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Review of the Department of Justice's Use of Less-Lethal Weapons Barry Leonard, 2010 Use of such weapons as batons, pepper spray and powder, ¿bean bag¿ shotgun rounds, baton launchers, rubber projectiles, and Tasers can enhance the safety of law enforcement (LE) officers and the public during LE operations. However, significant injuries and fatalities can result from their use. This review determines the types of less-lethal weapons used; the extent to which DoJ components are using these weapons, whether training and controls have been implemented to ensure the weapons are used properly; whether the components have identified the impact of using these weapons on their missions; and whether the DoJ assesses, deploys, and oversees new and emerging less-lethal weapon technologies. Illustrations. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: FBI Oversight and Authorization United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, 1983 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Workplace Violence Christina M. Holbrook, David E. Bixler, Eugene A. Rugala, Carri Casteel, 2018-07-03 Workplace Violence: Issues in Threat Management defines what workplace violence is, delves into the myths and realities surrounding the topic and provides readers with the latest statistics, thinking, and strategies in the prevention of workplace violence. The authors, who themselves have implemented successful workplace violence protection programs, guide novice and experienced practitioners alike in the development of their own programs. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: FBI Oversight United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, 2006 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: U. S. Strategy to Counter Domestic Political Terrorism James B. Motley, 1993-04 Analysis by U.S. Army Colonel of U.S. policy, strategy, and organization for combatting domestic terrorist activity. He offers pragmatic suggestions for improving the domestic antiterrorism program. Chapters include: the threat of domestic terrorism: nature and dimensions; combatting the threat: unpreccedented policy decisions; the antiterrorism program of the U.S. government; antiterrorist policy, organization, and strategy: a critical appraisal; the threatened role of intelligence in combatting terrorism; the Hanafi Muslim incident: a case study of successful hostage negotiations; and coping with the future: recommendations for improvement. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Combating Terrorism: Analysis of Federal Counterterrorist Exercises Carol R. Schuster, 1999-12 U.S. policy and guidelines to combat terrorism call for robust, tailored and rapidly deployable interagency teams to conduct well-coordinated and highly integrated operations. Fed. agencies enhance their ability to respond to terrorist incidents by conducting exercises that train key personnel and test response plans. GAO briefed Congress on its analysis of fed. couterterrorist exercises that had been gathered in producing a Feb. 1999 classified report. This report summarizes the contents of those briefings. The objective was to determine the numbers, types, scenarios, and participants involved in Fed. counterterrorism exercises conducted from 1995 to 1998. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Today's FBI , 2013 Book Description: Today's FBI-an intelligence-driven and threat focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities-staffed by a dedicated cadre of 35,000 agents, analysts, and other professionals-who work around the clock and across the globe-to protect the U.S. from terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks, and major criminal threats-and to provide its many partners with services, support, training, and leadership. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, 1996 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Lockdown America Christian Parenti, 2008-08-17 Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing,prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war oncrime, it also explains the political and economic history behind themassive crackdown. This updated edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditation on surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminal justice attack. Written in vivid prose, Lockdown America willpropel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crimeand politics in a period of gathering economic crisis. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Not Your Father's Coast Guard Matthew Mitchell, 2009 While the Coast Guard's many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known, its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed, the Guard didn't just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit cargo into Uncle Sam's territorial waters, it sent ground troops to foreign lands to train their forces and, when necessary, directly engage the enemy. But to create the type of force needed was no small task and would not be without tribulation, both from within and outside the organization. The road traveled to complete the mission was laden with obstacles. This is not a story about the Coast Guard you know, or think you know. Rather, this is a story about the other side, the side that history nearly forgot; not the standard, but the antithesis of standard. It is a story that will undoubtedly make even the most seasoned Coast Guardsmen question their understanding of the organization to which they belong. To be sure, This is not your father's Coast Guard. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The Police Identity Crisis Luke William Hunt, 2021-03-30 This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context. Contending that the police are in the midst of an identity crisis that exacerbates unjustified law enforcement tactics, Luke William Hunt examines various major conceptions of the police—those seeing them as heroes, warriors, and guardians. The book looks at the police role considering the overarching societal goal of justice and seeks to present a synthetic theory that draws upon history, law, society, psychology, and philosophy. Each major conception of the police role is examined in light of how it affects the pursuit of justice, and how it may be contrary to seeking justice holistically and collectively. The book sets forth a conception of the police role that is consistent with the basic values of a constitutional democracy in the liberal tradition. Hunt’s intent is that clarifying the police role will likewise elucidate any constraints upon policing strategies, including algorithmic strategies such as predictive policing. This book is essential reading for thoughtful policing and legal scholars as well as those interested in political philosophy, political theory, psychology, and related areas. Now more than ever, the nature of the police role is a philosophical topic that is relevant not just to police officials and social scientists, but to everyone. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin , 1995 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1995 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Leadership in Dangerous Situations, 2nd Edition Patrick Sweeney, Michael D. Matthews, Paul D. Lester, Sean Hannah, Brian Reed, 2022-12-15 This guide which, for years, has prepared military, emergency, and first responders to face psychological, social, and physical challenges of leading in dangerous contexts has been updated. The author team, which includes scholars and practitioners, has integrated current research findings, incorporated topics not covered in the prior edition and has created a reference work relevant to leaders at all levels (entry, mid, and senior) in organizations that operate in dangerous contexts. Leadership in Dangerous Situations, Second Edition includes nine new chapters that address character development, ethical decision-making and action, leading in uncertain times, empowering initiative, leading taskforces and cross-functional teams, operating in complex social and political environments, tactical and operational decision-making and planning, red teaming, and incident command. The authors wrote their chapters as acts of service to enhance the professions that serve their countries and societies. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Citizen Airman , 1995 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: FBI Facts & Figures United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1996 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: US Domestic and International Regimes of Security Markus Kienscherf, 2012-11-12 This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'. The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into permanent global pacification – not only in the global south but also in pockets of the ‘Third World’ within the territory of Western states. In this volume, the author explores the ways in which regimes of security have been extended into increasingly large aspects of social life and shows that their expansion has been driven by a constant broadening of the notion of 'war'. Filling a gap in the literature, the book demonstrates how US security agencies have sought to develop indeterminate security capabilities aimed at distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate flows of people and resources. This analysis of regimes of security is tied to a more general discussion about the persistence, or even multiplication, of illiberal forms of power within liberal governmentality. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, war and conflict studies and international relations in general. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee To Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, February 15, 2006 , |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: A Failure of Initiative United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, 2006 The results of the official Congressional investigation into the government's preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Guns of the FBI Bill Vanderpool, 2019-05-17 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Red Night Daniel Tuffin, 2009-05-21 the clock is ticking and time is running out.FBI agent William Donavan and his partner Laura Carmen have only 24 hours to find and stop an attack on three of the world's greatest landmarks. Bombs have been planted at major locations around the world and in 24 hours all that will be left is rubble.As each hour passes, those responsible will stop at nothing to make sure that their plan succeeds. For the FBI this is a race against time, but the closer they get, the more dangerous things become.Set within a 24 hour period, the clock ticks with each chapter. But who will succeed? |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Terrorists in Our Midst Yonah Alexander, 2010-04-09 This unique work analyzes for the first time how foreign-affinity terrorism works in a major democratic nation like the United States, and what this country must do to survive the terror challenge, on both conventional and unconventional levels. To date, no definitive study has dealt specifically with the role of American citizens in supporting a foreign political, ideological, and religious illegal agenda. Terrorists in Our Midst: Combating Foreign-Affinity Terrorism in America remedies that as six expert authors discuss the threats of Americans to security interests in the United States and elsewhere, exploring what can and should be done to reduce a risk that may threaten the very survival of the free world. Terrorists in Our Midst focuses not only on foreign nationals operating in the United States, but also on American citizens participating in terror networks at home and abroad. The book presents an overview of both conventional and unconventional terrorism, surveys the terrorist threat in the United States by state and nonstate actors, and analyzes the foreign-affinity links of American operatives in this country and abroad. Most important for the safety and security of the United States, it offers an assessment of what policies worked and what did not work, specifying a best practices agenda of recommendations that should be adopted by the United States and the international community. |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Materials Relating to the Investigation Into the Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, 1997 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Federal Register , 1979-12 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1986: Department of Justice United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, 1985 |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: The Dead Years Jeffrey B. Burton, 2024-03-05 A serial killer, dormant for years, reawakens after viewing a Netflix docuseries depicting his string of homicides. The killer is not happy with his portrayal and no one in the cast and crew is safe! The first instalment of a gripping new thriller series set in Chicago and featuring a young sibling sleuth-duo and their working dogs. Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago is nothing new, but when a string of killings happen that seem to be connected to a Netflix docuseries and its cast and crew, Cory and Crystal are called in to stop the number of bodies from piling any higher. But when the siblings start poking around the killer's business, the killer sets their sights on the pair . . . and particularly on Cory and his dogs! Will they be able to escape the fury of the serial killer or become the newest victims? This fast-paced thriller, with insight into a serial killer's mind, is a perfect up-all-night binge-read, and a great choice if you love spirited detectives, great action - and very good dogs! |
| fbi special weapons and tactics teams: Translog , 2005 |
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