One another one can't get a way.

A-1-1-1-1-1-1-hmm.

You trying to be a street cop?

What's up, street cops? What's up street cops?

Street cop instructor group and I want to talk to you today about a very focused and simple

tactic that can maybe improve our skill set when we're out there operating in and around

violator vehicles.

With the death of Oscar Katie Thine from the Newport News PD in Virginia,

it's probably appropriate for us to all sit back and take a minute and evaluate what it is we do out there and what we can do as individual cops to

make this craft of ours a little bit safer.

We spent a lot of time over the last 29 years being very interested in the tactics that we use when we interact with violators in their vehicles.

And there's one spot that can get us in a lot of trouble.

And that's the inside arc of the door swing. And when I talk

about the inside arc of the door swing, what I'm talking about is that space, when you open the

door on a car, that space, that V-shaped space between the door and the car that you have to pass through to get in or out of the vehicle.

That's the arc of the door swing and when you're inside that you're between the door and the vehicle.

Cars are dangerous when there's a desperate that you're between the door and the vehicle.

Cars are dangerous when there's a desperate,

you're drunk or bad guy or girl at the wheel.

It's a giant weapon.

And when the doors were open, that car gets a lot more dangerous and a lot wider.

The open driver door of a toilet of Camry

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