August 18, 2025| www.forcescience.com
Discover how stress impacts perception in Dr. Marc Green’s 5-part series—Von Kliem highlights key lessons for attorneys, trainers, and investigators.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Lon Bartel’s new study reveals humans may not stop shooting instantly, even when the threat ends—even under perfect lab conditions.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
NAFTO 2025 featured top trainers delivering science-backed strategies to help FTOs build confident, resilient officers ready to perform under stress.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
In many of today’s efforts to hold police “accountable,” officers are no longer judged by the constitutional or agency standards they were trained to follow. Instead, they are evaluated using vague, academic, or entirely manufactured standards—many of which contradict their own training, policies, and practices. Concepts once confined to academic settings—often labeled “generally accepted police […] The post Weaponizing “Generally Accepted Police Practices”: The Dangers of P...| Force Science
Some call Barnes v. Felix a game-changer. Others say it reinforces the basics. The ruling may be more precise than sweeping.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Force Science names Brian Baxter as CEO, bringing 30+ years of public safety leadership to advance research, training, and honest accountability| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Police reform often overlooks operational realities, ignores human performance science, and amplifies unqualified voices over practical, evidence-based insight.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Abstract: This study focused on the perceptual, cognitive, and physiological processes involved in the perception-reaction phases of shooting and then stopping in response to stimuli. Utilizing a police/military training simulator, the researchers aimed to understand the lag between the presentation of a stop stimulus and the actual cessation of the action. Participants, predominantly college-aged adults, engaged in a shooting exercise using a VirTra simulator with a CO2-powered Glock 17, sim...| Force Science
Much ink has been spilled on the controversial question of whether involved officers should review video evidence before writing use-of-force reports or giving statements. The answer to that question requires an attempt to balance the costs, benefits, and risks of exposing involved officers to video evidence before their experience is documented. There has been comparatively […] The post When Should Investigators Watch Video Evidence? A Novel Approach in America’s Heartland first ap...| Force Science
Can a still-frame image tell the story of a high-speed, life-or-death encounter? In Stopping Time, Force Science’s Von Kliem describes how experts are misusing video screenshots to distort threats—while ignoring the realities of perception, response time, and the critical "time to stop." The latest Force Science and VirTra research confirms that humans cannot stop a shooting sequence instantaneously.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Uncover the scientific realities surrounding officer performance under stress, action/reaction time, memory, and decision-making, during force encounters.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Dr. Ed. Geiselman explores the Cognitive Interview and how officers involved in critical incidents can prepare to minimize errors and maximize accurate recollections.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
“The officer should have waited until he actually saw the suspect’s gun. If the suspect tried to shoot him, he could have shot first.” Anonymous The above quote didn’t come from an angry anti-police protestor or a biased civil rights attorney. It came from a police legal advisor. It came from an intelligent, civic-minded, pro-police| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Editor’s Note: Studying performance errors in policing can be difficult for researchers who cannot ethically replicate the dangerous conditions present in lethal force encounters. To overcome this limitation, researchers routinely consider evidence derived from other professions and industries (e.g., aerospace (Airbus), aeronautics (NASA), pharmaceutical, occupational safety and health, medical, industrial engineering, and transportation). Recent events| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Attorneys and law enforcement leaders do not universally agree that officers should watch video evidence before giving a statement.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Even where officers successfully respond to deadly threats, there remains a segment of our population standing ready to indict, convict, and imprison them.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
How is it possible that forty-two officers responding to the same training scenario would show almost no consistent planning or execution? That’s what researchers from Force Science, East Carolina University, and Montclair State University found as they analyzed data from their 2023 police response study. ((Gaze Control and Tactical Decision-Making Under Stress in Active-Duty Police| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Video evidence can support honest accountability in policing, but only when viewers are “video literate” and understand police practices, threat assessments, law, de-escalation, persuasion, and the reality of human performance.| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
The New Force Science Certification Course blends the flexibility of online learning with dynamic in-person instruction. The hybrid course means less time on the road and decreased costs without losing the exceptional value of training with industry-leading experts!| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
Reframing, visual focus, and experience can facilitate expert decision-making and performance—even under high-levels of stress!| Force Science - Research | Training | Consulting
