A police officer is sometimes required to literally make a potentially life or death decision...

Police officers must be able to make an accurate appraisal of a lethal encounter and...

When we consider a fire career as a journey, we start seeing the training, education,...

The study shows that firefighters believe in masculine ideals, including independence, strength, and straightforwardness. Therefore,...

Fire and emergency services is a complex world that presents responders with problems to solve...

Editor’s Note: In searching for answers for the way things are – you sometimes have...

Utah Valley University teaches fire command facilitating a naturalistic and comparative models of decision making...

Knowledge and Lived-Action are what makes a firefighter an authentic firefighter.

Personal and professional growth through college education for emergency services workers.

When sociopolitical and economic ideologies drive the decision to withhold services. Subscriptions for fire services...

Why fire service employees, fire departments, and communities benefit from college educated firefighters.

A non-reductive approach to inquiry of the emergency responders' life-worlds.

Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and Complacency, the A-B-Cs of bad management.

Drawing from Heidegger’s (2008) Being and Time, the game of golf is analogous to our...

The lived experience of having someone die in your presence can have a personal impact....

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Police deadly force is not intended to kill, but its purpose is to stop a...

As I reflected on my thoughts, I reflected on my reflections while my body was...

http://phenomenologyblog.com/?p=341 I like to use the analogy of the “helmet cam” (helmet mounted video camera)...

This paper is the methodology section of my doctoral dissertation that outlines the Descriptive Phenomenological...

In the recent past, we have seen news reports in the media regarding police response...

I don’t know if it is still a stock question in hiring and promotional processes...

An obvious fact is that police officers are problem solvers. Sometimes the most obvious things...

Meta-communication is the message behind the explicit message(s) in language. In other words, when we...

There is no hero or protector without a menace from which to protect or save...

In the criminal justice system, we deal with people in terms of their individual rights...

Powerful questions are those questions that lead the person asked to reflect. What this means...