Dallas ISD police train in ‘verbal judo’ to de-escalate conflicts
VIDEO: Dallas ISD police officers learned a form of judo Tuesday. Not the physical kind, but a verbal one to defuse conflicts before they get physical.
About 40 officers learned “verbal judo,” a method used to de-escalate conflicts with verbal techniques. They learned to offer solutions to a person who is angry, or make a point of asking for someone’s version of what happened. READ MORE
The training comes as incidents involving police use of force are in the national spotlight.
“What we’re talking about here is so timely,” said DISD Police Chief Craig Miller. “We want to defuse the situation, quite frankly, instead of escalating.”
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Judo DoJo
Judo (meaning "gentle way") is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano . Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata,) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. A judo practitioner is called a judoka.
