P&S ModCast 247 brings Michael Brown, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Matt Larsen, and host Matt Landfair together to discuss chokeholds as a means of restraint and the broader climate surrounding law-enforcement training and methods. The episode examines terminology, application, risk, policy, public perception, and the need to distinguish trained restraint methods from indiscriminate pressure on the neck.
Released: June 24, 2020
Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds
Host: Matt Landfair
Panel: Michael Brown, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, and Matt Larsen
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Episode overview
Recorded amid intense public debate over police restraint practices, this episode evaluates the legitimacy and limitations of commonly labeled “chokeholds.” The panel brings experience from law enforcement, combatives, defensive tactics, and training development to a discussion of how terminology, technique, context, and instruction affect both effectiveness and risk.
Topics discussed
- What the term “chokehold” includes—and why precise terminology matters
- Airway compression, vascular neck restraints, and other neck-control methods
- The role of restraint techniques in law-enforcement use of force
- Medical risk, contraindications, monitoring, and aftercare
- Training quality, repetition, supervision, and skill maintenance
- Policy decisions made in response to public pressure and incomplete information
- How removing one force option may affect reliance on other methods
- Public perception, accountability, and communicating technical subjects clearly
Context
This discussion reflects the law-enforcement environment and available information in June 2020. Laws, agency policies, professional standards, and medical guidance may have changed since the episode was recorded. The episode should be understood as an expert discussion of restraint methods and training—not as individualized legal, medical, or tactical instruction.
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Law Enforcement Restraint and Defensive Tactics → chokeholds, vascular neck restraint, neck control, use of force, arrest and control, defensive tactics, combatives, policy, training standards, medical risk, accountability, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Matt Larsen, Michael Brown, and law-enforcement methods.