Lecture I
NEWHALL- an acronym from an infamous California Highway Patrol Massacre in which 4 CHP officers were killed in the Line of Duty. See here for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_massacre
N - Never Approach a danger situation until you’re adequately prepared and supported.
E - Evaluate the Offense and determine if you might just be dealing with something heavier and more dangerous than it looks.
W- Wait For backup.
H- Have a plan, Twining and Davis had a plan and they out gunned twice their number of highly trained lawman. The responding CHP officers didn’t…and they died.
A - Always Maintain the Advantage over the opponent. Gore and Frago initially had the tactically dominant position and officer survival experts who interviewed the surviving Bobby Davis believe that he and Twining would have surrendered if the two officers had not abandoned their tactically superior position.
L - Look for the Unusual. The first two officers had reason to believe that the Pontiac contained one or more armed men, yet they ignored the warning and left their cover to approach them.
L - Leave the Scene when in doubt; CHP believes that if Gore and Frago had pulled back out of range when they first perceived reluctance to surrender, they could still have managed to keep a lid on things until backup units responded.
