Quotes About De-escalation

Hört auf zu streiten, oder ich tue so, als ob ich in Ohnmacht falle. Vielleicht schreie ich auch ein bisschen.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

Finally, despite a policy of de-escalation, there will inevitably be situations where state forces do need to escalate. When that happens, we again stress that it must be over fast. To return to Martin van Creveld's analogy, an adult can get away with giving a kid one good whack in public. He cannot administer a prolonged beating. Once the escalation terminates, state forces must make every effort to demonstrate that de-escalation remains their policy.

Take Away Their Stick If the other's reaction to our No is to hurt or threaten us, our first instinct may be to hurt them back. A more effective strategy, however, is to neutralize the impact of their behavior. If, as in the story of the Zen master, they are threatening to hit you with a stick, don't hit them back; just take away the stick. In other words, don't attack the other, but simply remove their ability to attack you.

We have to enforce training that is more emphasized on de-escalation tactics and crisis management control. Once we do that, then we have to put measures in place to reward the officers who are the good officers, which is the majority of them. Then we have to hold accountable the officers that are not abiding by the policies and those laws.

Discretion is the most powerful tool a police officer carries on the beat, because an appropriate level of discretion can short-circuit the use of lethal force. Discretion and de-escalation measures are pro-community, pro-police, and create more trust while making everyone safer.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

You can't pull a gun just because a crazy person wants to talk to you. If I did that I'd never get through a family Christmas.

Once they get you to laugh the fight is over, because no matter how mad you are, nobody takes you seriously when you're trying to dress them down while giggling.

A soft answer turns away anger.

Using words to de-escalate a situation is always ideal. No cop wants a physical altercation.

Think of de-escalation as a guardrail that helps slow down a situation, so both officers and San Diegans go home safely.

Instead of attacking, focused on taking away the stick.

Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.

But there's good news, folks. If you play your cards right in situations like the one above, you can avoid violence altogether most of the time. What's more, you can do so without having to back down or feeling like a wimp. These are the social dynamics this book is going to teach you.

The key fact to know when somebody goes nuclear is that the person is stuck in attack mode, so rational, reasonable, intelligent conversation won't work. A guy who's throwing a computer at the boss or waving a gun around can't listen to reason, because he can't access the higher thought processes that say "Hey, calm down—this is crazy.

Your task, if you're facing a person who's running amok, is to break that lock. How? By talking the person up gradually from "I want to hurt someone" to "I'm terribly upset" to "I need to find a smart way to handle this." These stages correlate with the three levels of the brain: the primitive reptile brain, the emotional mammal brain, and the logical human brain.

The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.