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Hard Tactics: A Study

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Psychological state of tactical officers is to restore order, unlike active shooters who thrive on chaos. “In a study conducted by the commercial law enforcement training company Hard Tactics (Barchers, 2010), researchers concluded that the faster a shooter is confronted by police, the higher the probability of de-escalating the situation with no further loss of life” (Harmening, 2014, Pg 83). Ultimately, goal of tactical officers is to de-escalate the situation to prevented causalities, and this is demonstrating in their training. Responding officers are train to make immediately contact with active shooter though the use of force. This is primarily done to prevented the shooter additional time to kill more civilians lives, and to allow officers

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