Public Safety and Law Enforcement Standards

An Associated Press investigation published December 20, 2025 finds that high-intensity defensive tactics drills at U.S. law-enforcement academies—often called 'RedMan' training—have been linked to at least a dozen deaths and hundreds of injuries since 2005, including recent fatalities in San Francisco and Kentucky and mass injuries at the Texas Game Warden Training Center. The report details how loosely regulated stress‑reaction and combat simulations, sometimes involving larger instructors and multiple assailants, can cause concussions, drownings, amputations and long‑term disability, even as state reviews like one in Texas continue to clear the exercises as compliant with existing guidelines.