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What do you wish you’d known when you started in law enforcement?

Reflecting on your career in police training, force assessment, or street ops, what is one thing you know now that you wish you’d known when you were fresh on the job?

Former sergeant Brian Willis, the well-known motivational trainer and certified Force Science Analyst, put that question to a wide cross-section of North American law enforcement professionals, ranging from members of major urban departments to obscure rural agencies. From the responses of 35, including other FSAs and Force Science advisors, he has fashioned a compelling new book, If I Knew Then: Life Lessons from Cops on the Street.

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Editor’s note: Check out the most recent issues of POLICE magazine and Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement for feature articles on Force Science as well as the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin for an article co-authored by FS Certification Course instructor Dr. Matt Sztajnkrycer, FS Executive Director Dr. Bill Lewinski and FS’s VP of Operations Scott Buhrmaster. Copies of the articles will be on the Force Science Web site soon.

In this edition:

I. New study: Cops use wrong tactics in questioning witnesses

II. Newest cert class grads expand Force Science world network

III. Exceptional firearms trainer pulls the pin after 30 years of keeping cops safe

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