Bridging the Thin Blue Line

(hopefully this would be a good location for this? If not, feel free to move it ) ...Did the video load?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTU2CmlStYk

Task: Learn to Assist Emergency Services
Conditions: Given an online class and highly motivated Force Realists Students.
Standards: Students will learn to legally and efficiently assist law enforcement and other emergency services in the event of a crisis and/or criminal event taking place.
Risk Assessment: Low
Learning Objectives: Students will know the following by the end of the course-

-Reporting
-Sworn Statement
-Miranda Rights
-When to Ask for a Lawyer
-Importance of Training & Certifications (f.e. CPR)
-Importance of Situational Awareness
-Importance of and How to Improve Personal Safety
-Importance of Crime Scene Protection
-How Impairment Factors into Statements
-Understanding Police Profiling
-City/State/Country/Host Country Good Samaritan Law *
-City/State/Country/Host Country Citizen's Arrest *
-City/State/Country/Host Country Assault Charge *
-City/State/Country/Host Country Weapons Laws *

*will require research by instructor with lawyer from prospective areas

NOTE: In order to recieve full credit for this course, you will be required to participate in discussions and complete all four essays to standard.

COURSE NOTE: This course does not teach you to be "gung-ho". In fact, you are going to find that it is quite the opposite. The purpose for teaching this course, however, is so that you have a better understanding of how laws work in the area of your residence, and also to help you learn how to research local laws. These are all important factors of being a good citizen. Remember, if you write an essay, I'm going to research it to find out if you are going through the right avenues, so you may need to give me a general idea of what laws you are looking at (State, Country). Also, in order to receive credit, you will have to complete all assignments. They will be graded on a "go" or "no-go" chart.

Domestic Violence Scenario:

You hear loud ruckus next door. It sounds a lot like a wife and husband yelling at each other. You've heard them argue in the past, but nothing ever came of it, so you never reported it to the proper authorities. Suddenly, you hear hear a loud bang, it sounds like a gun shot.

DISCUSSION: What do you do between the time you realize it has taken another step (becomes full on domestic violence) and the time the police arrive? Also, while you have the police on the phone, what do you tell them?



Practical Exercises
Sometimes the things we notice don’t seem like they are very important. For example, you might walk into a home and notice a firearm cabinet, or someone might show off their firearm to you. It doesn’t seem too important at the time, and might not even seem important if you are calling because you suspect a gunshot from that home. The police should know if there is a weapon in the household, right? After all, it is the law (in America at least) to register your weapons, right? Not everyone who has a firearm goes through the process of registering it. This is even more o evident if there isn’t a serial number on the weapon.  Furthermore, some states do not require registration, and it goes completely against their constitution to do so.

Let’s take another scenario: You happen to notice that neighbor has a new car out front of his/her house every day or so. A few of those days you happen to take a random mental note that the person who owns those vehicles is different every time and is the opposite gender of the individual who lives in the home. This might not be cause for worry. We don’t know anything about the individual’s social life and should probably just respect their privacy. But that one night that you should have paid attention, you just threw the information out the door that there was a car out front, and your neighbor turns up dead.
You don’t want to take an extreme interest in your neighbor’s life, not the point you are a gossiper or even the type that would stereotype. But you should take down mental notes of things. Like that new car out front, just briefly retain the car color, model and how many doors it has. If nothing happens, then nothing happens. But in the off chance something does happen, you have more information to give off to the police. That person could be the subject, or they may have been the last person to see your neighbor alive.

Here is are two exercise that can help you improve your skills of observation.

EXERCISE ONE:

YOU WILL NEED-
Yourself
A Friend
Stopwatch
A Random Public Location

PROCEDURE:
1) Walk into a store with your friend and pick out one person. The only stipulation is that the individual you choose to observe is a complete stranger to both you and your friend.

2) Have your friend time you for 30 seconds (as time goes on you will want to lower the amount of time to as little as 5 seconds)

3) Your friend also needs to observe the individual in question-but they can observe them longer.

4) Now, describe the individual you selected in as great of detail as possible.

Once you have gotten comfortable with this, sink down to 20 seconds, then 10 and finally 5.

Exercise one discussion-

1. How did you fair?
2. What did you learn about yourself?

EXERCISE TWO:

YOU WILL NEED:
Yourself
A Friend
A Non-Public Room

PROCEDURE:
1) Walk into the room, take in as much about the room as possible. You can stay in there as long as you feel the need to.

2) Walking out of the room ask your friend to change something in the room that is obvious (nothing small, we know you won't realize something really minuscule is out of place unless it is YOUR room and you know where exactly everything is. But nothing too big-like moving a computer screen across the room). The friend can take something out of the room or simply move it. They might even do something as different as closing the screen of a laptop when it was open.

3) Walk into the room and try to figure out what it was that changed.


Exercise two is fun to play with kids. If you have other exercises you want to add to this, throw them in. For the discussion portion, however, tell me:

1. Did you find it easier to figure out what was different as you kept going into the room? Or was it just a difficult as the previous times before?

2. Did you find that it was time consuming? If so, did this irritate you?

3. What have you learned from this experience?


Here are some tips from Officer Stacy Smith when observing others (will need to be in a chart when put into book format):

When taking mental notes for descriptions, whether a person or a room, start at the top and work your way down. Get the basics, then look for anything unique. 

As an example; a person.

Sex? Race?

Hair color?

Hair style? Long? Short? Bald? Curly? Straight?

Were they wearing a hat? Did the hat have a logo? 

Eye color? 

Shirt? Color? Style? Logo?

Coat?

Hoodie?

Pants? Sweats? Color? Style?
Shoes?
Boots? Color? Style?

Height?
Weight?
Approximate age?

Height and weight is the most difficult.

Use yourself as a point of reference.
 Ask: Were they taller than me? Shorter then me? 

Weight. You don't have to guess weight. Group it into categories. Heavy, paunchy, muscular, thin? 

Ballpark the age. It doesn't have to be exact. Ex: somewhere between 25 and 35.

Now go for anything unique.
Tattoos? Scars?
 Accent? 
Was there anything about their gait (walk) that stuck out?
 Jewelry? 
Did you see them smoking?
 Was there ANYTHING that jumped out and sticks in your head?



It takes practice, but it's a trainable skill like anything else.

I see no video :laugh:

lol, it's also got the confidential in here Until the council approves it Looks like it managed on my end, so I think we're good after it's approved.

This is an assignment from me to Alethea as she completes her degree here. I wanted to let The Council know first since it's a teaching thing even though it's not specifically about Jediism or The Order but is great for the public in general. Council are there any objections?

*bump*

Council is slow...

Sorry for the delay, it has actually been discussed a bit in council...

Bump.

Bumping again. I'm hoping that there will be some engagement on this topic. Because it's kind of necessary for the next "lesson" in the plan. This happens to be part of a project I'm working on for a program one day I hope will make it into schools across the nation. You don't have to read everything, the video pretty much covers it all, except the exercises.

Alethea Thompson wrote: Bumping again. I'm hoping that there will be some engagement on this topic. Because it's kind of necessary for the next "lesson" in the plan. This happens to be part of a project I'm working on for a program one day I hope will make it into schools across the nation. You don't have to read everything, the video pretty much covers it all, except the exercises.

I dont know what to do , i want to help , maybe its just me being slow ... :laugh:

0.o Is the video showing up?

At the end of the video there's a discussion topic It's also written up, under "Domestic Violence Scenario"