Since then, due to the increase of violence on our city streets, a great interest on the part of many law enforcement officials and educators, have understood the need for unarmed tactics training. Most officers are not sufficiently trained for this aspect of work. This accounts for the unpleasant necessity for clubbing into unconsciousness a subject whom the officer is merely trying to control, not injure. The officer upholding the law has a difficult job to do in these strange times. It is an age of violence.
Violence permeates the newspapers, magazines and films.
The same citizen who demands protection from danger will complain at the brutality of the officer who is protecting him. The police officer deserves to be trained so that he may do his job with dignity, authority and a sense of self respect. The method offers for the practical work of the officer in the field, training for many, many situations where he must cope with danger and not justified in using firearms. A working knowledge of the art means the ability to apply techniques in actually. A student must devote considerable time to proper practice of a technique in order to be able to apply it.