One section is titled 'Pre-attack Indicators.' It says, 'Unfortunately, the will to survive is all too often trained out of the psyches of our police officers,' and warns of 'predators' and 'adversaries' who are younger than officers and who have 'been in more gunfights and violent encounters.' It advises: 'An attack on you is a violent act! What is the only way to overcome that violence?' The booklet portrays a world of constant and increased threat to officers, despite more than two decades of declining violent crime in the United States, and the fact that the last few years have been among the safest to be an American police officer.

It has charts and graphs on 'Combat Efficiency' and 'Perceptual Distortions in Combat.' A copy of the booklet was obtained by The New York Times.

The 'Bulletproof Warrior' booklet handed out at the company's seminars addresses warfare as much as police work.

Screenshot via Diamond Reynolds / FacebookĪ workshop for Bay Area police officers in Santa Clara (Calif.) called 'Bulletproof' was abruptly canceled last week after outcry from local activists who claimed the program 'trains cops to be paranoid and to assume everyone is out to get them' and to 'shoot first and ask questions later,' according to East Bay Express.įormerly titled 'The Bulletproof Warrior' - a name which was shortened after complaints from a number of police departments - the program is a product of Calibre Press, and has been under particular scrutiny after it was revealed that Jeronimo Yanez, the suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Philando Castille last month, had attended one of its seminars in May 2014.

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