"No one on my beat will try to kill me. I know them all and they like me."
By Lt. Jim Glennon

“It’s really about you as an individual developing the mindset necessary to win and survive on the street.”

I made that comment recently to an attendee at the Calibre Press Street Survival Seminar held in Kalamazoo, MI last month. My remark was in response to the young female officer’s observation that the seminar seemed to speak directly to individuals in a group rather than a group of like-minded law enforcement officers. She informed me that prior to her attendance, she was told by colleagues that the one seminar she absolutely had to attend was the Street Survival Seminar. She went on to say that while most everyone endorsed the seminar, no one really explained what it was all about. “I thought this was going to be all about specific patrol tactics and other types of tactical deployment.”

As we continued to talk she told me that she worked with a great “group of guys” and she loved her supervisor (a repeat attendee) because he made the safety of his officers a “top priority." However she fretted over the possibility of being assigned to another shift where, according to her, the Watch Commander was less concerned with the lives’ of his officers and more concerned with his own career.

She concluded our conversation with; “But now I know that both my safety and my attitude are mine and mine alone. No matter how good my Sergeant is, my safety and winning on the street is unquestionably up to me.”

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