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Start with our Your Weakest Supervisor Webinar, and then move on to the Introduction to Supervisor Liability Course to begin.
We’ve learned that the role of the supervisor is the department’s most important protector against liability.
Who in your department is best able to protect you from a claim of an unconstitutional practice or custom?
Communications Strategies for Law Enforcement Leaders equips law enforcement leaders with practical tools to shape public perception, strengthen internal communication, and manage high-stakes messaging with confidence. The course explores how agency brand, employee communication, media relations, and public-facing language all influence trust, credibility, recruitment, and community perception. It also covers how leaders can prepare for crisis communication, identify target audiences, manage interviews, avoid defensive messaging, and present themselves professionally on camera and in public.
This course teaches supervisors how to handle difficult conversations in a clear, respectful, and consistent way. Through practical examples, supervisors learn how to prepare with facts and expectations, manage emotional responses, listen effectively, apply procedural justice, and guide employees toward improvement. Built for chiefs, supervisors, training officers, and internal affairs personnel, the training focuses on real-world issues like performance problems, policy violations, and workplace conflict, giving leaders tools they can use immediately to improve communication, accountability, and team culture across their agency.
This course examines how cognitive bias and human physiology influence critical decision-making, post-incident review, and use-of-force evaluations. Through an exploration of hindsight bias, supervisors learn how outcomes can improperly shape judgments of officer reasonableness and why force decisions must be evaluated based on the information available to the officer at the time. The course also provides an evidence-based overview of prone restraint deaths, explaining the biomechanics and physiology that contribute to medical collapse, including metabolic acidosis and respiratory compromise. Together, these sessions equip supervisors with practical tools to conduct fair, objective investigations, improve training and policy decisions, and reduce organizational risk by aligning supervisory practices with science, law, and professional standards.
This supervisor-focused course examines the evolving legal, tactical, and cultural landscape of police use of force, emphasizing the supervisor’s role in restoring officer confidence while maintaining accountability and constitutional standards. Through a historical review of the past decade of policing, participants explore how legislative reform, litigation trends, and public scrutiny have shaped officer decision-making and agency risk.
Ethics, Integrity, and Procedural Justice for Supervisors provides law enforcement leaders with a practical framework for shaping ethical culture, reinforcing public trust, and strengthening supervisory accountability. The course explores core components of professional ethics and decision-making — including the Code of Ethics, the Oath of Honor, Bell, Book & Candle, rationalizations, and cultural influences — while connecting these principles to procedural justice, fairness, and legitimacy in daily supervision.
This combined session examines how technology and transparency shape modern policing. Attorneys Atstupenas and Osterreicher bring deep experience in constitutional law and digital policy to explore the intersection of social media, artificial intelligence, and public recording. Through real-world cases, supervisors will learn to navigate legal, ethical, and operational challenges related to digital evidence, citizen recordings, and press interactions—while safeguarding both officers’ and the public’s constitutional rights.
Current Trends in Legal Operations: Technology is a multi-session program examining how evolving technologies intersect with constitutional law, investigations, and law enforcement operations. Across five modules, the course reviews recent case law, Fourth Amendment applications, and surveillance techniques — highlighting where courts have drawn boundaries and where technology is pushing those boundaries forward. Participants leave with a clear understanding of the legal landscape around emerging tools such as advanced surveillance, cell phone searches, and equipment not yet in ordinary use.
In today’s world, video technology plays a central role in law enforcement oversight, investigations, and accountability. Yet video evidence is often misunderstood or misinterpreted. Video Literacy for Police Supervision is a five-part training series designed to give supervisors and investigators the skills to critically evaluate video within the context of human perception, technical limitations, and forensic standards. Participants will gain practical knowledge that strengthens their ability to make fair, accurate, and defensible decisions when reviewing incidents captured on video.
This two-part training equips law enforcement supervisors with the legal knowledge and operational guidance needed to manage protests and public gatherings lawfully and effectively. Participants will explore recent legal standards shaping protest response and gain insight into nationally recognized public order practices. The course blends legal foundations with real-world operational strategies to ensure leaders are prepared to uphold constitutional rights while maintaining public safety.