"Violence, Threats, and Life," Chase Hughes, May 31, 2024.
5:00 This will help you understand how people process decisions, this is called OODA Loop, developed by a former Army colonel, John Boyd, who developed this to illustrate the thought process that fighter pilots, namely fighter pilots, but any personnel in combat, have to go through to respond to violent actions. OODA stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and then Act. Chase doesn't think the OODA Loop is complete.
He noticed that in training police officers for many years that . . .
6:00 The OODA loop is not what an attacker or an aggressor goes through that's going to stab a police officer or pull a gun out and shoot a police officer.
6:23 So I've invented something for police and military officers, called the TFCA Cycle: Threat, Fear, Calculation, and then Action. So this indicates that suspects or attackers go through a mental process that even though it may be irrational, it is still their mental process and they do this before they take action.. and that officers soldiers military people can capitalize on this by identifying some of these mental processes before the violent behavior starts taking place. Previously, people were faced with only orienting to a threat AFTER . . . . Think about this. I'm only orienting to a threat AFTER the aggressor has decided to take action, and that puts me on the back foot. So the stuff that I teach the police gives the ability for people to respond to that stuff.
7:27. So let's talk about TFCA really quick. This is the stuff that's inside of the suspect or the attacker's mind. TFCA is the Threat, the Fear, Calculation, and Action. I am perceiving some kind of threat. For some people, that might be blue lights in my rear view mirror; that becomes a threat. For others, that might be "give me your registration and your ID." For others, that might be "step out of the car." Who knows? They are perceiving a threat. They start feeling fear. Can we see fear in behavior? We've studied behavior profiling, the 6XMinute X-ray. Can we see fear? Yes, we are seeing that, yes. So we can start seeing those indicators of fear. We have the calculation. We can start seeing eye movement. We can see a lot of stuff that indicates calculation and instead of waiting until they take action to start doing something to de-escalate. We can do a lot of things beforehand, before we start getting shot at, before that knife is in that person's hand.
COPE concealment, oxygenation, preparation, expenditure.
Averting gaze. Eyes move downward with the head, not separate. Gaze will avert in the direction of the dominant hand.
Sideways gaze aversion is a preflight indicator.
Humorous Freeze. Funny bone. When we see the upper arms stick into the torso, they kind of freeze up against the torso, this is almost always seen in over 95% of the cases right before an attack occurs.
