Thomas Rader

Following the Fixtures: A Smarter Way to Organise a Sports Week Following the Fixtures: A Smarter Way to Organise a Sports Week Following a team across a busy week takes more than checking a result after each match. The fixture list, travel, recovery time and competition format all influence what supporters should expect from the …

How to Read a Casino Review Without Falling for the Stars How to Read a Casino Review Without Falling for the Stars A five-star badge can be persuasive, but it does not reveal what a casino review actually checked. Readers researching Casumo or any other brand should inspect the article’s evidence, scope and editorial approach …

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial on how active shooter response doctrine changed after Uvalde and what patrol officers are now expected to do differently on the street.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week we're reviewing the T.REX Arms Titan Level 2 OWB duty holster, tried on two different pistols.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is medical gear an individual patrol officer can carry on the body to extend capability in the minutes before EMS arrives.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial, and the topic is the wave of drones, license plate readers, and other technology moving into patrol work, and what actually changes officer capability versus what just moves money around.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial, and the topic is the gap between the school safety plan sitting in a binder and the response capability that actually shows up when the call comes in.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial, and the topic is the promotion process that turns good officers into untrained supervisors overnight, and the specific skill gaps that follow them onto the shift.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is the medical gear an individual patrol officer can carry to extend capability in the minutes before EMS arrives.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a suppressor review, and the topic is the Dead Air Sandman X, a short, full-auto-rated .30 caliber can I ran on two very different host rifles and watched do something I did not expect.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is building a cold weather patrol layer system that keeps you functional across a twelve-hour shift instead of just warm for the first hour.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is optic selection for patrol rifles: red dot versus low power variable, zero distance, reticle choice in low light, and what actually survives being racked in and out of a car mount every shift.I know this can be a “religious” topic for some people, so I’m going to do my best to thread the needle.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week's editorial is on what separates field training programs that produce street-ready officers from those that produce paper compliance.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial, and the topic is less-lethal tools: Taser, OC spray, baton, and beanbag, and the gap between how they perform on the training mat and how they perform on a wet sidewalk at 2 a.m.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is the radio hardware nobody issues you: the accessories, the earpiece choices that actually fit your assignment, and the battery discipline that keeps a working radio from turning into a brick at hour ten.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial, and the topic is the gap between how law enforcement dies and how the profession talks about dying: more officers end their own lives every year than are killed by suspects, and almost nobody trains for that number.Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers, whose support keeps this column going every week.

Platform selection for concealment, the holster and print-management realities that separate a workable off-duty setup from one that stays in a drawer, and the mindset differences that matter more than the hardware when an off-duty officer encounters a threat.Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is off-duty carry: the setup an officer actually wears when the uniform comes off, and the practical, legal, and mental factors that determine whether that setup is a

A new wave of fishing technology is making it easier than ever for anglers to find and catch fish, and fisheries managers across the country are taking notice. Live sonar, sometimes called forward-facing sonar, allows fishermen to see fish in real time on a screen, watching how they move and react to lures beneath the …

Why most after-action reviews produce paperwork instead of learning, the format and culture conditions that make post-incident review genuinely useful, and how to run one that officers do not dread and do not forget.Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is an editorial week, and the topic is the after-action review: the post-incident process that is supposed to convert experience into improvement and that, in most agencies, converts it into a form instead.The after-action review has a good

The equipment design and procurement failures that produce poor fit for female officers, why body armor, duty belts, and holsters built around a male body type create real safety and performance gaps, and what agencies and officers can do about it.Welcome back to Front Line Friday.This week is a gear week, and the topic is one that the profession has been slow to take seriously: the systemic fit gap in equipment issued to female officers.This is not a diversity talking point or a courtesy issue.