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These videos need updating.

no wonder why no swat training dynamics anymore. Do your threshold assessment, it saves lifes.

I just attended ALERRT at Jackson Township Middle School near Canton, Ohio. The training was top notch and I learned more in two days about room entries than I have in 25 years of service. Communicate effectively, establish command and control, stop the killing, and stop the dying!

Got to use the ALERRT shoot house earlier this week. These videos are a great tool for self diagnosis post experience.

These tactics are not horrible but not good. 25+ years kicking doors and training Strike Force Units. Verbiage needs cleaning up. The threshold aka step center is a technique not an entry type. You have dynamic (high risk high reward), deliberate (step center slow deliberate pies etc), and methodical (secondary clearing and processing of a target). Problem when you arbitrarily invent verbiage is going into mutual aid responses.

Threshold assessment is easier to train such as these guys who had no idea how to do a CQB battle drill. I’m real life, bullets go through walls. Sims rounds do not. Dynamic takes a significant amount of training but is more effective. In this scenario, a dynamic approach would have the #1 man shoot the immediate threat outside of the doorway while making entry and the #2 would have got the second suspect in the hard corner. Would have been faster and would have presented a moving target to the suspect while the #2 takes the corner.

Dynamic option when you have the tools like flashbang and want a quick violence respond. Threshold for the majority of officer who dont have the training and equipment like swat team have. Slower but safer

In a dynamic entry, we typically use flash/gas no? MET-TC sure.

While I get what you are trying to do the error in the process begins at the instruction. You basically had the same entry in both scenarios. The only difference was in the second the ofcs moved faster than they processed. I am strongly against any “threshold evaluation” during an active killer incident. A complete revamping of how LEO’s look at tactics and the time they need to dedicate to reestablishing new SOP’s. Perhaps time to trash can some PC annual training and make some things once every 5 yrs or more to make room for lifesaving training in the ever increasing violent society. Regarding tactics of taking rooms talk to the folks who have spent the last 20yrs doing it for real. They have some valuable input.

Is there a comprehensive list of these?

Any new videos in 2022?

I starting to think that CQB tactics are pretty much useless. No matter what you do... someone is always up to get a shot in the face. Armored shields, night googles and cameras are much better than any strategy to assess and fight what is hidden in a corner. JMHO

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A lot of "experts" like to point out what they perceive as mistakes and trash this type of training, this training is good for patrol officers who have little or no tactical training, after 20 years in LE, this training is hands down better than when I was taught in the academy, there will always be "experts" who say they would deploy gas or a distraction device but in reality does your average "patrol guy" or School Resource Officer have them? NO, who do they think is going to be first on scene? Who do they think will be first to enter the school or already be on campus? The pajama wearing Velcro ninjas? LOL NOPE, it's going to be your average patrol guy and SRO. Most don't get the premise behind "Stop the Killing, Stop the Bleeding", there should not have been a Uvalde, it should have stopped after Columbine but it didn't, Columbine should have never happened. For years leaders in the LE profession sat and kept changing tactics and training, first we were taught the "diamond formation" then it was wrong and now the "rolling T", mention one or two man entry and they'll start to stutter, mention taking rescue workers into a "warm zone" with armed officers as security and they'll get up and walk away. We still have the "it wont happen here" mentality. Your average officer/deputy needs this training to better prepare them for an active shooter event that we all pray wont happen.

We just went through ALERT training. I have to say it's the best training I've ever had!

Amazing examples of how you enter to address the corner is very important and gives the suspect much more time and cues before he is being muzzled/engaged. Thank you for this.

I'm trying to figure out if the recent training had something to do w the Uvalde situation. It might have nothing to do w it. In one video i watched, the guy said he would not enter the room unless he saw 80 percent of it. But if they're doing training the past couple of years where they're veering away from dynamic entries, that's what I want to know. This may be totally unrelated, but it is a valid question. I would like to find out the training.

Please remove this video. It 100% points out the way to take advantage of the officers by simply putting someone who sits and waits for the officers to get sucked into a threat while the other threat waits for as many to come into the room b4 he must engage. It's obvious the officers do not have any training in room entry. No one took the responsibility for the blind corner. Officers must rember to be responsible and cover their sector of fire. Not doing so is going to possibly get your buddy next to you killed.

Respectfully...it was painfully obvious that the three officers who conducted the dynamic entry had NO idea how to do it properly. The number 2 failed to dig his blind corner, and went straight in towards the bad guy, even though the number 1 was already engaging him. Number 3 did the same exact thing. It failed because of poor execution. To be fair, however, proper execution of dynamic entry requires much more practice than these officers were given. I'm not bagging on the threshold evaluation scenario, or on the technique itself. It has its place, particularly when dealing with patrol officers with minimal training, and no distraction devices (i.e.; flash bangs). It works exceptionally well when you have highly trained officers who have killed all the lights, and are working under the cover of darkness with NODS. However, to draw a conclusion based off this limited video is disingenuous. I can set up a scenario that will cause either technique to fail. As a matter of fact, on my team, we have done that exact thing. There is no perfect system, and there is no perfect scenario. It has to be based on multiple factors (time, environment, mission, etc.). I know ALERRT likes to push the threshold eval. And for the officers it's intended for, I'll say that it's probably the best way to do it. But that doesn't make it better than dynamic entry in every case.

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I was in charge of this type of training and personnel for my agency for many years. I attempted unsuccessfully to conduct empirical studies of this type in 1997-2001 with groups of SWAT officers. I retired in 2010 but still work as a subject matter expert. I've purchased your book, the outcomes you present here are extremely informative, excellent! Outstanding work and extremely informative.

So all the officers died

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Threshold is generally more superior in my opinion being both safer and easier for the clearing team and dominating for the overall situation. Both have their pros and cons. The clearing team just didnt execute as well in the video for threshold. The concept of threshold clearing also includes utilizing the structure, as much as it will provide, some cover and concealment for the shooter. Clear the threat and end engagement from the hard point before submitting to entering the room. Afterwards, if necessary pie back to a point of domination to what hasnt been cleared. Good video.

that 'dynamic entry' was anything but...what a shit show lol

Not trained. Didn’t go to points of dominance

Narator: "psssttt... psssst.... psssstttt...." I can't hear thing... *crank up the volume up* *"BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG"*

I'd argue that they did not execute a dynamic entry properly. 1 man stopped in the door, and 2/3 guy did the same thing (cleared the same spot as 1 guy before realizing, oh crap theres 2 bad guys.)

4:00 Glad it was training though. That's 3 KIA right there.

Is this channel made by real police officers? I'm a police officer from Brazil and would like to adress some questions about CQB

Dynamic entry takes more skill but is more effective for certain operations because the time taken is much quicker

Question : the door is close or open?

useful

that police officer just flagged his buddy about 2 times

Why are y’all showing some tactics? These shitheads can use this.

Aggressive vs Conservative

Watch project gecko

Opt1Flashbang and teargas - officers go in with masks Opt2Flashbang and entry If flashbang and teargas the hostage has a two man team to extract the hostage and the other firing teams conduct business as usual. I don't claim to know how any of this stuff works

Maximize the angles. See what happens when exposure to too many angles at once?

I remember the shooting in 2004 in Kansas city that killed four but it's represented by a dot that says 10+ in the legend. I don't remember and can find one from 2007. Are sure this map is accurate?

Honestly, in reference last scenario shown, the biggest issue presented with these officers was their unwillingness to dominate the threat in their sector. #1 man began to take corner then ran into the center of the room once he was engaged. #2 man started taking what should have been #1’s corner (allowing opposing threat to eat his lunch too), and then stopped short of his POD. #3 took the hard work and started addressing second threat, but #2 was racing shots at the Target right past #3 (bad news). Hate to say it but these dudes lacked aggression to dominate their sectors and the scenario ate their lunch.

Basically dynamic is dangerous if you aren't trained and familiar with a cqb situation.

Excellent video

Very nice short presentation.

Stop using low voice audio with loud gun shots.

#1 man when penetrating the threshold, clearing his corner first and ignoring the middle of the room is battle tested; limited penetration is a step down in my opinion. But like the video said, patrol officers are not SWAT and don't have time and opportunity to drill in the discipline to ignore the middle of the room. I dont understand why everyone is pushing limited penetration to everyone these days, limited penetration is a false sense of security and is not improving the capabilities of operator/shooter/officer in the long run.

I'm part of a team of civilian coordinators for events involving 40 - 65,000 participants. Interfacing with first responders efficiently is becoming part of our wheelhouse. The sooner we can get accurate information to them, the better prepared they can be when they arrive. Please keep that in mind as you work on ALERRT and ADD training programs. The one idea I picked up on is seeing the identification sash worn by the officer in the CNN photo just published. I'm going to suggest that to our organization to make ourselves quickly identifiable to law enforcement and the folks we are responsible for.

Threshold aka "limited entry/penetration"

Except walls are not cover and bad guy #2 can just shoot through the wall at Officers outside. Get in the damn room and train for 2nd man in to clear opposite corner FAST. The time difference in this video is due to poor training and lack of discipline in encountering a second threat.

Simple and complex at the same time. Its like chess with lasting consequences.