RedMan Training: Police Recruits' Deadly Rite of Passage
Update: 2025-12-20
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RedMan Training: A Tough Rite of Passage for Police RecruitsHeather Sterling, a former game warden, joined Texass elite training academy and faced a brutal four-on-one ambush drill, resulting in a concussion. Sterlings experience is part of an Associated Press investigation revealing at least twelve deaths and hundreds of injuries since 2005 due to these intense training drills. The lack of standard rules and varying methods across agencies has led to concerns of hazing, particularly targeting women and Black trainees. Despite agencies defending the drills for building skills under stress, many are rethinking or scrapping them following deaths and lawsuits. Sterling now advocates for change, highlighting the potential dangers and exhaustion caused by these high-stakes training methods. Checkout Solipillow.com
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