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 THE MYTH OF LAW ENFORCEMENT KNIFE FIGHTING


One of the most disturbing myths of all is that police officers are the best people to teach you knife work.  Much like their military counterparts, police officers usually have to go outside of their departments into the civilian sector in order to learn good knife skills.  In law enforcement perception counts for a lot and many departments will not even let their officers carry a knife per SOP.  The ones that do carry are lucky if they get any formal training from their department.  I have taught knife work to law enforcement and I can tell you that it is a very hard sell to departments who are very liability conscience.   Like soldiers, police officers will dedicate the better part of their training to their firearms.  Knives are a very distant priority for them.  Certainly, the experiences that some police officers can give to us about knife survival is invaluable but as knife tacticians their skill sets are more limited.

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