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MAY 2021 Blues Vol 37 No. 5 - Austin Cover

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MAY 2021 Blues Vol 37 No. 5 - Austin Cover • National Police Week • Memorial Services in Austin, Houston & Harris County • Are You Prepared to Stay Alive: A Officer Survival Guide • DC Cops race, crash, and get beat up by one officer's momma • Warstory/Aftermath - White cop shoots black teenager in the back

TAKEDOWN TECHNIQUES

TAKEDOWN TECHNIQUES CHOKE ESCAPES 5 (5) Keep the suspect’s arm compressed and immobilized. (6) Transition to a Prone Control by placing your compressing hand on his elbow, while your locking hand controls the wrist. (7) Drive the suspect’s elbow toward his head, while pulling his wrist across his body. You’ll want to know how to get out of a choke hold if you find yourself up against an MMA aficionado. I JAMES HARBISON I PHOTOS: JIMMY LEE Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a dynamic and entertaining combat sport whose popularity has grown significantly over the last decade, and this multi-milliondollar business appears here to stay. This brings both opportunity and challenge to law enforcement officers. We have the opportunity to learn MMA techniques and training methods that are useful to us. Our challenge is to recognize that we are facing aggressors who have been trained formally in MMA or, at the very least, informally by the entertainment industry that promotes this martial art to use techniques such as choke holds. So how do we meet that challenge? The answer is simple: training. TRAINING PERSPECTIVE 6 7 MMA practitioners commonly use choking techniques to defeat their opponents. In a match if you are being choked by your opponent you can “tap out” or submit to end the As the suspect begins to fall, you let go of his hands, adjust your stance appropriately, attack before you go unconscious or suffer a severe injury. Law enforcement officers do and prepare to initiate your next action. If you need to generate a little more force not enjoy this luxury. to initiate the takedown, bring your free (searching) hand to the suspect’s elbow and The consequences of your being “choked out” or rendered unconscious are severe. push downward as you pull his hands. Your aggressor can have his way with you and the weapons on your belt. The danger to you, your fellow officers, and the public is obvious. A choke attack should therefore REAR PULL-DOWN WITH ARM COMPRESSION be considered a critical attack and you should train yourself accordingly. We are going The Rear Pull-down with Arm Compression can also be initiated from the standing basic to take a look at two popular choke techniques used effectively by grapplers and MMA search position regardless of which hand you are using to control the suspect’s hands. Use your practitioners: the rear naked choke and the guillotine choke. controlling hand to initiate backward and downward movement of the suspect’s hands and Before we do that, keep in mind two things. First, nothing will replace well trained head. As this occurs, use your free (searching) arm to wrap around the suspect’s arm, midway fundamental skills. We are often looking for the “ultimate method or technique” or the between the suspect’s wrist and elbow. Quickly move your controlling hand to a supporting “surefire solution” to our problems. The reality is that where officer safety is concerned, 8 position on your wrapping wrist, locking down and compressing the suspect’s arm. what rules the day are basic fundamental skills developed through consistent, highquality training. Regardless of what method of defensive tactics or arrest control you use, Depending on which arm you are compressing, relative to your stance, you may have to (8) Once the suspect is prone, reach adjust your feet to facilitate the arm compression and/or open the hole for the takedown. there are several fundamental skill areas you must develop and maintain at the highest under with your driving hand and take control of the suspect’s wrist. Pull the Once the arm is compressed, drive your hips toward the hole, bringing the suspect to levels throughout your career. Awareness, balance, control, timing, and distance are but arm up and toward the suspect’s head the ground forcefully. Once on the ground, maintain control of the suspect in the arm a few of these fundamental skills. No technique or weapons system can replace these, until his shoulder locks. compression position long enough to disengage or, preferably, transition into a shoulder-lock including the choke escape techniques we are about to look at. prone control. Secondly, it is frequently pointed out that many if not the majority of the alterca- tions officers are involved in end up on the ground. Assuming this is true, does that SIMPLE YET EFFECTIVE make you a “ground fighter?” Be careful if you answer “yes.” True ground fighters prefer Whenever you deal with people who have a potential to harm you, your safety is paramount to be on the ground and are comfortable on their backs. They can turn an infe- and control is the key. Once you have established control over a person using the rior position (on their backs) into a superior position with well-practiced techniques. standing basic search, if the person’s resistive or combative behavior necessitates that These can surely be useful skills to have. However, we don’t fight in padded rings; we you establish greater control, one of your options is to take him to the ground. The two don’t have referees. And while we have rules, our aggressors do not. When we do fight, takedown techniques presented here are simple in concept and execution, and effective we are usually wearing weapons which, if taken from us, can be used against us with in application. If you don’t use them already, give them some consideration. Above all, lethal consequences. Perhaps most importantly, even the best ground fighter who ties stay safe and in control. up with an aggressor on the ground will have a difficult time dealing with a second or third person joining the fight. Multiple aggressors are a reality law enforcement officers Lt. James Harbison is the Basic Academy Director at the Contra Costa County (Calif.) Office consistently face. of the Sheriff Law Enforcement Training Center. He has been teaching law enforcement Many of the young men and women I teach in the Basic Academy program at the defensive tactics at the academy and advanced officer levels for more than 21 years. Contra Costa County (Calif.) Office of the Sheriff Law Enforcement Training Center al- ready have very impressive martial arts/combat sports backgrounds. Some are even a tough match for my instructors, one on one. The game changer comes when I introduce a second and third aggressor into a combative training exercise. I do this to prove my POLICE I 22 POLICE I 23 point that once you tie up with an aggressor on the ground, you become vulnerable to 94 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE 95

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