The Rush Was Never About the Trigger
October 26, 2026
ZRIntel Contributor
is the Community Policing and Public Affairs Coordinator for the Somerset County Sheriff's Office in Somerville, New Jersey, and Director of the Police Studies Institute at Saint Elizabeth University. He retired in 2014 as Chief of Detectives for the Morris County Prosecutor's Office and also served as Morris County Undersheriff. He spent more than 30 years in law enforcement,and can be reached at [email protected]. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Snook, S.A. (2000). Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq. Princeton University Press. Cooper, D., Fuller, J., Wiggins, M.W., Wills, J.A., Main, L.C., & Doyle, T. (2024). Negative consequences of pressure on marksmanship may be offset by early training exposure to contextually relevant threat training: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Human Factors, 66 (1), 294–311.
October 26, 2026