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17 things to think about emotional wellness after Dallas – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
17 things to think about emotional wellness after Dallas – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Author: Barbara A. Schwartz
If you made the shooting scene in Dallas, then you’ve been injured. All normal, feeling human beings who responded to the shooting and crime scene will be affected on some level. Your injury is a normal response to an abnormal event. Most importantly, treat — don’t ignore — your injury.
Here are 17 things for all first responders — not just those who responded to the scene of a recent mass shooting — to consider about emotional wellness following a large-scale critical incident.
1. Acknowledge your injury and be kind to yourself so that you can heal.
2. Keep to your normal routine as much as possible. You will find solace in normalcy and so will your family.
3. Discharge the injury. Cry. Talk to someone close to you, another first responder, a loved one, your clergy, a friend. You don’t have to tell them what you saw, but share how you feel. Write down your feelings in the form of a letter, journal, poem, or email. You don’t have to keep what you write. Shred it or burn it. The act of connecting language, either spoken or written, to traumatic memories has been scientifically proven to heal and help your brain store and make sense of the memories.
4. You are hurting, injured. If you were bleeding, you would seek treatment, get stitches. Your psyche and soul need those stitches.
5. Keep busy with productive activities such as household chores, exercise, cook, mow the yard, watch comedies.
6. Avoid excesses of anything: food, booze, gambling, sex, spending, etc.
7. Limit your time on the Internet and watching or reading the news. You lived it. You don’t need to re-experience the trauma over and over again.
8. Take advantage of the psychological counseling or peer support resources your agency makes available to you.
9. Your reaction may be more personal and intense if you knew one of the victims. This is normal. Be aware of this phenomenon and provide increased tolerance and compassion for officers personally impacted.
10. Educate yourself about the symptoms of post traumatic stress because you may experience one or more of the following:
Hypervigilance Anger and rage Emotional numbness Irritability Guilt Depression Flashbacks Nightmares and/or trouble sleeping Panic attacks Avoiding thoughts of the incident Physical sensations such as upset stomachs, joint or headaches, sweating, breathing difficulties, chest pains, trembling, or chills Memory lapses or trouble concentrating Jumpiness or being easily startled Social withdrawal or isolation
These are all normal reactions following an abnormal event. You are not crazy if you experience one or more of these symptoms in moderation. If any of these symptoms overtake your life, become uncontrollable, or you cut yourself off from those you love or who love you, seek help.
11. Control how and when and to whom you recount your ordeal. You don’t owe other people a play-by-play. Recounting the memories over and over will drag you through it again and again and open the healing scab. Don’t pull out those much needed stitches.
12. Avoid "what-if" thinking such as “What if I was closer, got there faster, didn’t make that traffic stop across town minutes before the shooting. What if I could have prevented it?” Don’t do that to yourself. What if thinking isn’t productive unless it’s used to improve future tactics, training, or procedures.
13. Feeling helpless is normal. Feeling vulnerable is normal. As much as you would like to think otherwise, you are not Superman or Wonder Woman. You are human, mortal, and an emotional being. Allow yourself to be that.
14. Reach out to others who are also injured, mourning, and grieving. Peer support heals everyone including you.
15. Hug people, family, spouses, kids, friends, pets. Share the pain, don’t hide it, hoping to protect those you love from the trauma. In doing so, you will only hurt them more.
16. Use pet therapy. Pets are great to talk to. They don’t judge or advise. They listen with unconditional love.
17. Suicide rates escalate in the wake of a traumatic incident. Monitor yourself and your fellow officers. Signs may be evident or hidden. Don’t let the death toll rise.
This Hurts Us All Every first responder across this country feels the pain of the shooting in Dallas. As police officers, we are the caretakers of society.
This hurts. All of us.
Tend to your invisible wound. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Having this invisible wound doesn’t make you weak or less of an officer. It makes you human. Makes you everything that the evil that perpetrated this crime was not.
Wounds can heal if you tend to them appropriately.
You are a first responder, a police officer, a warrior because of who you are and what you believe in. You took an oath to serve and protect and that also means you accepted the risk, the possibility of being killed, injured, or disabled in the line of duty. In taking that oath to serve and protect society, you also accepted the possibility and responsibility of the invisible injury of trauma.
Warriors embrace trauma as part of the task and allow themselves time to lick their wounds and heal.
Acknowledging trauma is heroic, not weak. Treat your wounds. Seek those stitches. Honor your trauma.
If you need someone to talk to, please reach out to me via email here. If I can’t assist you, I know someone who can and will.
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Col. Chapter 3, Verse 12-17
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Pastor Jon Bell
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Jesus is Bigger Pt 6
Colossians 3:12-17
” How to Control Our
Feelings when our
feelings are controlling
us”
Intro-
Feelings — feelings are powerful
explain
Crimes of passion
Fear
Despair
Unhappiness
Guilt
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be
loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe
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Proverbs 28:26 – He who trusts in his own heart is a fool
Feelings aren’t bad — explain
But when our feelings are our masters they can be
They can lead us the wrong way, dominate our lives and
they can become a playground for satan to a hold of us
Feelings are like a train
Or a fire
When we are controlled by them we suffer physically,
emotionally, and spiritually
God does not give a spirit of fear, but one of power, love
and a sound mind
Those receiving this letter were threatened with feelings
of insufficiency, inadequacy, and un-holiness
Brought on by false teachers
This morning look how to control our feelings when our
feelings are controlling us
Read 3:12-17
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Jesus Is Bigger-How to control our feelings when our
feelings are controlling us
1. Do what you Know
Our feelings and emotions can tell us one thing and our
minds another causing confusion. Don’t let these
feelings turn into action. Hold on, do what you know!
A.12 Therefore
Because of our new nature
Col 2:11-13- died-buried-raised –with Him by faith in
the working of God-made alive together with Him
Col 3:1 –raised with Christ — new ambition (seek),
new goal (set)
New life-Christ who is your life
So –put off-don’t nurture, feed, arrange our life
according to earthly ways in which we used to do
when we lived in the flesh
b. as the elect of God
now we are chosen of God
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4
to be his children
that’s who we are and the new nature we have is a
godly on
c. holy and beloved
we are holy
we are loved
so act accordingly
put on
I used to think I should have the feelings of the
behaviors I was suppose to have
I used to beat myself up because I didn’t feel
very compassionate, kind, humble, loving etc
?joy, why do I stress, where’s the peace?
I felt as if I needed to have the feelings before I
would be able to act accordingly
What I/we need to realize is that sometimes it
requires the action to experience the feeling
Not works
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5
You are healed-Take up you mat
John 5:6-9
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew
that he already had been in that condition a
long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be
made well?”
Col 2:13-15
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made
alive together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses, 14 having wiped out the
handwriting of requirements that was against
us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken
it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers,
He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing
over them in it.
7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no
man to put me into the pool when the water is
stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps
down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and
walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made
well, took up his bed, and walked.
In other words –“put on” is to imitate Christ
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He knew how to do Life
We might not understand everything, but we
can do what He did and have the same results
1. (Put on) tender mercies- “he looked on the
multitude and was moved with compassion”
Sensitive to the touch
Luke 1:77-79
77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Dayspring from on high has
visited us;
79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and
the shadow of death,
To guide our feet into the way of peace.”
2. (Put on) Kindness — goodness toward others that
pervades the entire person, mellowing all harsh
aspects
Matt 11:30 For My yoke is easy (kind) and My
burden is light.”
I.e. feeding the multitudes
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Prov 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to
whom it is due, When it is in the power of your
hand to do so.
3. (put on) Humility- Humility is the outlook,
attitude, approach in our interactions with
others
Phil 2:7-9
7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the
form of a bondservant, and coming in the
likeness of men. 8 And being found in
appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and
became obedient to the point of death, even the
death of the cross.
Matt 11:29
I am gentle and lowly in heart
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Posted on July 15th, 2016
AutoTargets Bullet-sensing Reactive Target System – Tablet/Smartphone Controlled – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
AutoTargets Bullet-sensing Reactive Target System – Tablet/Smartphone Controlled – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Posted on July 15th, 2016
President Obama Holds Meeting with BLM Activists and Police, Reports No Progress – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
President Obama Holds Meeting with BLM Activists and Police, Reports No Progress – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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President Obama hosted a marathon meeting at the White House on Wednesday with police, Black Lives Matter activists, civil rights leaders, and elected officials, but emerged predicting more civil unrest in the wake of protests over shooting deaths of minorities by police and the assassination of five white Dallas officers.
The president came out of the nearly four-hour-long meeting unable to report concrete progress, saying “there are still deep divisions about how to solve these problems” of race, policing and accusations of excessive force, the Washington Times reports.
“There is no doubt that police departments still feel embattled and unjustly accused,” Mr. Obama said. “And there is no doubt that minority communities, communities of color, still feel like it just takes too long to do what’s right. We have to as a country sit down and just grind it out.”
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In tonight’s Talking Points on responsibility and protests, Bill O’Reilly said that Black Lives Matter “is the key group driving violence on the streets.”
O’Reilly took issue with a statement by Atlanta BLM organizer Sir Maejor saying that he understood why a black man assassinated police officers in Dallas. O’Reilly called the comment “ridiculous” and “irresponsible,” but not a surprise coming from someone within that movement.
He said that unfortunately President Obama “doesn’t seem to understand the vitriol.” Obama said yesterday that well-meaning activists within the movement shouldn’t be held responsible for the indefensible things a fringe of protesters have said.
“With all due respect to President Obama, well-meaning activists do not associate themselves with a group that often commits violent acts and encourages violence through irresponsible rhetoric.”
He added that Martin Luther King, Jr. would not have participated in a Black Lives Matter protest.
“How many more times are we going to have to see Black Lives Matter protesters destroy stuff?” he asked.
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Posted on July 14th, 2016
Shots fired at police officers – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
Shots fired at police officers – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Officers had been called following reports of a man being seen in possession of a firearm.
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COPS TV Show, Shots Fired, Kansas City, MO Police Department
Officer Caleb Lenz of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department attempts to catch up to an officer that is in pursuit of a stolen vehicle that was spotted earlier in the evening. As he races to the scene, the officer radios shots fired and soon afterwards radios that he has been wounded in the gunfight. Officer Lenz arrives second on scene and finds another officer with the injured man and a witness frantically pointing out the direction in which the shooter traveled on foot. A quick search of the area turns up the shooter’s shedded clothing. A K-9 Unit tracks the shooter to a garage and when the man becomes confrontational the dog bites him as he is pulled from the shed. He is quickly detained and the semi-automatic weapon used in the gunfight is recovered. The young man is treated for his wounds as Officer Lenz talks to the K-9 Officer about the track. Lenz is given updated information that the wounded officer will be okay and is in good spirits.
12/16/2011 UPDATE!
Man in crime spree sentenced to 44 years
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Posted on July 14th, 2016
Jeri Williams Named Phoenix Police Chief, First Female Chief in City’s History – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
Jeri Williams Named Phoenix Police Chief, First Female Chief in City’s History – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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The city of Phoenix will name Jeri Williams its new police chief soon, a source told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Wednesday.
Williams, a former assistant police chief in Phoenix, will be the first female chief in the city’s history.
She will take over the department in October, when current Chief Joe Yahner retires.
Williams left the Phoenix Police Department in early 2011 to take over as chief of police in Oxnard, California.
During her first stint in Phoenix, Williams was in charge of the department’s southern division and oversaw about 1,000 sworn and civilian personnel.
Williams has 28 years of law enforcement experience.
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Herman Holloway jr. talks to Wilmington’s first female Police Chief Christine Dunning, Insp. Bobby Commings, Capt. Taheem Acheal, Consultants Jimmy Nolan, Doug Ordela. Pt. 1
Don’t forget to tune in to The Herman Holloway, Jr. Live T.V. show, every Sunday night from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. And the first and third Sunday from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. On Comcast Ch. 28, Wilmington, De. We look forward to talking with you soon. Have a blessed day! Kingcenter@verzion.net
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Posted on July 14th, 2016
Berrien County Trial Court (MI) – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
Berrien County Trial Court (MI) – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Court Officer Ron Kienzle and Security Supervisor Joe Zangaro were shot and killed inside the Berrien County Courthouse by an inmate who was attempting to escape at approximately 2:25 pm. A…
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Posted on July 13th, 2016
Bellaire Police Department (TX) – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
Bellaire Police Department (TX) – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Police Officer Anthony Zarate was killed in a motorcycle crash in the 8500 block of Ferris Drive while pursuing a vehicle that had been involved in an earlier shoplifting. He was…
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Posted on July 13th, 2016
BlueSheepDog Stands With Dallas Police! – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
BlueSheepDog Stands With Dallas Police! – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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A few days ago the Dallas Police Department suffered the loss of five officers, killed in the line of duty, and seven more wounded in a violent attack targeted at the police. The officers had been providing security and assistance to a protest march against police involved shootings. During the march officers had taken photographs with marchers, and both sides had reported a very positive atmosphere and exchange.
Near the end of the march, a lone gunman, waited for the officers to approach. Using a rifle and handgun, the shooter systematically targeted white police officers, even shooting at officers on the move. The killer had planned the attack, and knew his intended targets would be present. This was a malicious and cowardly assassination of public servants!
As we have watched the horrible violence played out on the videos from the protest march in Dallas a few days ago, the BlueSheepDog Crew wishes to express our deepest condolences to the families of our slain and wounded brothers. We are current and former police officers, and a death of a police officer is a death in our family. We stand united with the Dallas Police Department, and all of our brothers and sisters in uniform.
To all our sheepdog readers we ask you to express your gratitude for your law enforcement officers – we need it now, perhaps more than ever! We would also ask for your continued thoughts and prayers for the fallen Dallas officers, the wounded officers, and their families. The days, weeks, and months ahead will be a very heavy burden to bear.
If you are able and desire to provide assistance to the officer’s families, we would recommend due caution, and highly suggest you contact the Dallas Police Department directly, to ensure your gifts will be directed as intended.
Dallas Police Department
Let us remember too, every day and night thousands of officers go back to the streets to fight against the hatred, violence, and decay of society most of us only read about. God speed to our brothers and sisters!

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Posted on July 12th, 2016
Baton Rouge Cops Invade Woman’s Yard to Arrest Black Lives Matter Protesters That She Invited Over – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
Baton Rouge Cops Invade Woman’s Yard to Arrest Black Lives Matter Protesters That She Invited Over – 911 Dispatcher Training Programs
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Originally published at Raw Story
Baton Rouge homeowner invited Black Lives Matter protesters to have a rally on her property — but that didn’t stop cops from arresting dozens of them.
In a video clip posted by CBS News correspondent David Begnaud, the woman who hosted the protest said she was “stunned” after officers moved onto her property and told protesters to disperse. Once some of the protesters left her property and moved onto sidewalks, officers arrested them because they were allegedly going to block the nearby interstate highway.
“I’m very upset,” she told CBS News. “I’m stunned at the behavior of police officers that utilized, from what I understand, the ability to take someone that I guess they targeted that was actually on the street, to bombard my yard and bombard my house.”
The protesters had been peacefully protesting on her property for around 90 minutes, The Daily Beast reports, when officers in riot gear started moving in. At this point, protesters started yelling at the officers that they were trespassing on private property.
The police justified their aggressive behavior by claiming that protesters had been planning to march down to the highway and form a blockade. The police decided to preempt this action by blocking off the interstate ramps themselves, local news stationWWLV reports.
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Posted on July 12th, 2016
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Posted on July 12th, 2016