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Stan Campbell

Use-of-Force Expert, Social Activist & Speaker

Stan Campbell is the COO of CCW Safe, a national legal defense membership organization for licensed concealed weapon carriers. Stan is known for his teaching experience as a law enforcement instructor and has personally trained over 4,000 uniformed officers and criminal justice professionals across the nation in the proper use of force, defensive tactics and how to de-escalate potentially violent encounters.

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Traffic Stop Safety – Part II

June 19, 2017

After setting up a safe traffic stop you must then prepare to interact with the officer and practice your own calming techniques. You have already done everything in your power to ease the anxiety the officer feels in approaching your car. And about the stop…

Traffic Stop Safety – Part I

June 15, 2017

Although police officers are killed more in other encounters each year “Traffic stops” are found to be the one thing officers do each day that scares them the most. Not many officers are willing to admit to the fears associated with traffic stops but they…

Exercising Extreme Control in a Violent Encounter

October 15, 2016

An example of exercising extreme control in a violent encounter takes me back to January 2001. I was an active police officer and the lead instructor for Oklahoma City Police department. I already had over 5 years experience training police officers and civilians in self…

Stan speaks on OWN panel led by Holly Robinson Peete

"Do Police Have Issues with Disrespect?"

I weight in. Why do some police interactions escalate to the point of violence? Ray Dotch, a television producer and the brother-in-law of police shooting victim Keith Lamont Scott, wonders whether it has to do with officers' sensitivity to disrespect.