New View Police Podcast
The New View Police Podcast provides a fresh no holds barred perspective on policing in the United States.
The New View Manifesto:
1. Policies, procedures and training for high-risk, complex and unpredictable work (no matter how good they are) NEVER fully account for how this work actually gets done.
2. Policies, procedures and training are how administrators, managers and trainers (no matter how experienced they are) imagine high-risk complex work is or should be done from positions that are insulated from the risks, complexities and uncertainties of the work itself.
3. Workers must translate and transfer the abstract, overly simplistic, linear and incomplete policies, procedures and training of imagined work to the complex, high-risk, unpredictable problems of actual work in order to achieve good outcomes... and they almost always succeed!
4. Workers in high-risk, complex and unpredictable work environments often achieve good outcomes in spite of policies, procedures and training... not because of them.
5. Safety in high-risk, complex, unpredictable work environments comes from worker creativity, flexibility, and resilience (ability to recover from the unexpected) and not from rigid rules, perfectly specified procedures, or repetitive block training.
People are the solution to high-risk, complex and unpredictable problems... not the problem themselves!
P.S. This is not a criticism of policies, procedures, or training... We need all three. We just need to understand their limitations and how high risk work in complex environments actually gets done.
New View Police Podcast
Safe Restraint of Agitated Subjects
Guests:
Chief James Gerace is a 25-year veteran of the Colonie Police Department and an FBI National Academy graduate. A certified police trainer and speaker, he specializes in crisis intervention and using learning science to improve training outcomes. He currently serves on the National Alliance on Mental Illness NYS Criminal Justice Committee and is a sought-after presenter on mental health topics. He can be reached at geracejj@colonie.org
Warren Hayashi, MD, EMT-P, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and EMS at Albany Medical College, as well as a Fellow of Resuscitation & Emergency Critical Care. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and EMS. In addition, he is a paramedic with more than 20 years of field experience. He works closely with multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
Dr. Hayashi is the EMS Medical Director for Rensselaer County, NY, several LifeNet of New York bases, as well as multiple other EMS agencies and fire departments. He is the Assistant Medical Director for Colonie EMS and is a Tactical Physician for Colonie Police Department’s Special Services Team. He also serves as a Medical Team Manager for New York Task Force 2.
Supplemental Reading:
Gerace, J. J., & Dailey, M. W. (2023). Safe restraint of agitated patients. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/additional-articles/police-practice-safe-restraint-of-agitated-patients
Gonin, P., Beysard, N., Yersin, B., & Carron, P. N. (2018). Excited delirium: A systematic review. Academic Emergency Medicine, 25(5), 552- 565.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/acem.13330
Levy, M. K. (2024). Consensus statement of National Association of EMS Physicians International Association of Fire Chiefs and International Association of Chiefs of Police: Best Practices for Collaboration Between Law Enforcement and Emergency Medical Services During Acute Behavioral Emergencies. Prehospital Emergency Care, 28(8), 1058-1062.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10903127.2024.2402530
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