Monday, September 7, 2015

The Expanded and Unified Force Continuum


  • Force of Influence;  Behavioral enforcement often made up of signs, emblems and other items and situations that influence behavior when no one is present as an enforcer.
  • Force of Presence;  This is the force on behavior that the simple presence of another person has. This is not a passive force as it includes things like frowns or smiles, aggressive cast to ones eyes or body.  A cold cast to the face or gestures of greeting, approval, or disapproval.   
  • Verbal Force;
  • Force of Restraint (Defence); "Soft" - See; "closet paradigm" below.
  • Disorienting Force; "Soft" - 
  • Disorienting Force (Ranged);  Best example is pepper spray and dart tazers.  
  • Canine Force; "hard" - This is a level where soft tissue damage is expected to slow counter attack and pain to lower predator's moral. 
  • Canine Force (ranged); Mostly this is an experimental attempt to recreate what happens to wearers of Ballistic vests when hit by bullets, this attempts to slow down the predator by overtly doing both knock down and soft tissue damage to damage predators moral and actively interfere with the predators attempt to carry out their own attack. 
  • Force of Restraint (Arresting); Illegal use of this level of force is considered kidnapping, legal would be both citizens and LEO arrest, well as medical restraint of the medically designated "incompetent" and "threat to self and others". See; "closet paradigm" below.
  • Lethal Force (hand); 
  • Lethal Force (ranged); 
  • Lethal Force (area arc); this is a ranged force that has the characteristic that it is said to be fired by 'Pointing" not "Aiming".  A snapshot weapon that sends projectiles out in an arc around or along an area pointed at.
  • Lethal Force (area diameter); Boom.. grenades and other explosive rounds.

  • Force NBC; 
Hard and Soft are designations often based on the possibility of the targets soft tissue damage
     "Soft" force;
     "Hard" force;

     See; "closet paradigm" below.
     CLOSET PARADIGM; Restraint in the force spectrum is odd that it is in two places depending on purposes.  this Paradigm has you visualize two persons and a closet one person, the restrainer, standing in the door to the closet facing the other the restrained. 
    This can be done two ways one with the restrainer facing outward and the other with the restrainer facing inward.
A. Facing outward  the restrainer keeps the restrained out of the closet.  Whether the restrainer is standing in the door using their body to keep them out or simply closes the door, the restrained has the whole rest of the world to move around in.
B. Facing inward this becomes a serious issue, as once again whether using the retainer's body or closing the door the restrained is now Trapped and at the Restrainers mercy, you face the issues of either the rules of arrest for LEO or citizens, kidnapping, medical restraint, or active defence of self or others.  Slamming the door of a closet and jamming it closed on a blade wielding active predator would be considered the height of wisdom, so long as you called for assistance in pacifying and releasing the hazardous person[Law Enforcemnt Officers suggested as a neutral party].  

Friday, August 3, 2012

Something Bad happens, Then What?

     A Predator with a gun, the smell of smoke in a mall, the ground shifts and the Rail overpass begins to Crack..  Something bad happens!

     Are You ready; what would you need to Have, what do you need to Know, what Can you do?

     If you are not a "First-responder"; what can you do, what are you.

     Lets call you an "Emergency Aid", if you are dealing with a medical problem it Is called "First Aid".  If you have taken the Red Cross courses, surely you know how and what to report to emergency services.  What about other threats; how do you report them?, what do you need to do?, to give whatever aid it is you can.

    A Predator with a Gun: Aid, What about this FEMA Course.
IS-907 Active Shooter: What You Can Do