defensive tactics training
Rapid Response Training℠
An Objectively Reasonable Approach
to
Law Enforcement’s Defensive Tactics
Rapid Response Training (RRT)℠ is a total approach to defensive tactics for law enforcement officers that encompasses philosophy, theory and practice and is inclusive of vital features made requisite by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Graham v Connor.
RRT℠ is a highly-developed, calibrated expression of the application of force options that maximizes instinctive adaptability in order to effect split-second decisions in tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving circumstances. This training sets the stage for a heightened development of intuitive acumen, instinctual action, and targeted willpower that promotes rapid and reasonable response that can override even extreme oppositional strength.
From the standpoint of Chinese military strategy, the flexible conquers the rigid and unbendable through motility and variation. It is safe to say, then, that one who is adaptable and flexible externally while firm and unrelenting in their determination internally will inevitably prevail in a conflict.
In order to achieve effective results given the indefinite number of circumstances that law enforcement officers encounter when attempting to arrest resistive and/or combative individuals, a training regimen must focus attention on quick and practical movements which arise from sound judgment, objective reasoning, and swift decision making. In a nutshell, these are the fundamental training principles of RRT℠.
Precise tactical training translates faint human energy cues to movement patterns that trigger specific pattern recognitions. The well-trained law enforcement officer has no problem detecting these cues and responding to them with the exact force option mandated.
Force is not always eradicated by force. Attempting to stop force with force can often be tantamount to putting out fire with gasoline. The strategy is not always possible, and is therefore not universal in its application. A reasoned, tactical approach that is spontaneous and effective is much more advantageous to all concerned and is at the very heart of RRT℠.
The concept of objective reasonableness is, in itself, an irreplaceable and unparalleled universal ideal. The RRT℠ defensive tactics training approach conclusively taps into and makes credible use of this ideal and works like a force options compass that points at a reasonable response to any rapidly developing situation.
Discussions about police use of force require careful attention to definitions. The terms use of excessive force and excessive use of force are often used interchangeably when in fact they have different meanings. 