One another one can't get a way.

What's up in a way?

Uh-huh.

You trying to be a street cop.

You trying to be a street cop? What's up street cops?

Smitty here from the 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.

I 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 high or drunk or bad guy or girl at the wheel. It's a giant weapon and

when the doors are open that car gets a lot more dangerous and a lot wider.

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