Tactical Empathy refers to the active intelligence gathering of a professional investigator who is attempting to learn what a person is thinking in an attempt to learn how to generate his/her voluntary compliance, cooperation, and collaboration.
Developing Tactical Empathy not only allows an officer to remain physically safer from a possible assault, but also allows them to potentially control an individual’s behavior through understanding what motivates them.
Gary T. Klugiewicz
Just before the election, the Washington Post fluttered about what it described as “Barack Obama’s empathy edge.” The equally hardboiled reporters at Psychology Today pondered: “Is Obama empathetic to a fault?” The Empath-…
Ignoring the issue hasn’t worked. Neither have calls for empathy. To improve policing, we must confront it head on.
It’s hard to talk about race in America. This much we know.
A common request is for empathy, to imagine whether these unspeakable acts — such as the killings of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner or Freddie Gray — happened to your brother or sister, but clearly that doesn’t work. The longer we talk around the margins of what really needs to be said, the longer it will take to heal..
When black people try to initiate a conversation, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s resisted by the very people who need to be listening. Diversion tactics are deployed, meant only to further marginalize the validity of black pain.
Empathy is a prerequisite for this country to heal. Without it, we will find ourselves right back here in no time.
Andy Newman
Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure; Djikic, M., Oatley, K., Moldoveanu, M. C.; Creativity Research Journal; Issue: 25(2); 2013; Pages: 149-154 Reading Other Minds: Effects of Literature on Empathy; Dji…
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re tryi…
