hi Dave Smith with officer.com here and I just want to go over some Refreshers today for signs and symptoms of somebody who's being being deceptive or extremely anxious and maybe they actually want to hurt us we'll never know in a contact till the the it hits the fan so we need to be attending to what a person's body and eyes and mind are telling us and the the thing that's so important here is is that very often we get used to dealing with people who are leaking anx xiety all the time we're giving them a
citation well they're thinking oh my gosh what's my spouse going to say what's my boyfriend my girlfriend what's my insurance company going to say so they leak anxiety so what happens is we start getting to where we just expect it and we ignore it and a lot of times ignoring that anxiety response those leaking s signs of tension and anxiety from some but maybe in fact they're actually planning on hurting us and or they're hiding criminality and we're ignoring it cuz we're just thinking ah just another nervous Citizen and this is why it's so important
you refresh yourself and what are the things you know that are what is Li spotting what are you seeing when somebody's lying to you what are you seeing when somebody's being overly anxious or stressed you know again just as simply that somebody constantly doing their hand movements they're constantly constantly comforting themselves or constantly shuffling their feet they can't stand still they're constantly scanning around are they looking to see if you got backup are they looking to see if they got backup or are they just nervous anxious you're got to make this decision you got to
attend to it and too often I see officers in videos they're down busy writing a citation and they're asking questions they're missing all these signs of anxiety and later in the video you see the fights on or the life and death struggle occurs or the suspect runs away and that's why I want to pay attention when you ask a question look up in their eyes how do they react do they look away do they look down are they formulating an answer are they trying to remember what they saw or remember how they feel or they
making up stuff all these things you want to watch because those eyes are critically important the eyes are the windows of the Soul as we say and this is the kind of thing we want to pay attention to simple things like that and again you don't just stare at it you're mentally prepared you're thinking about it over gestures yawning stretching all these things everybody always laughs in in a seminar when we show it and we say well look at this anxiety response but the point is how many times do officers miss it because people are
always yawning always stressing when you're giving them these citations when you're getting ready to book them for DUI that doesn't mean they're going to fight you don't know if they're going to fight this is why you have to have your mind in the game all the all the time what if you're looking at somebody and they blanch or they flush somebody's go suddenly just pale this may be their blood is rushing to their main muscles and they're want to have the fights on or they're flushing now they're intensely emotional these are all symptoms and signs
you have to be prepared for you have to have your mind right if you don't look at it you're not going to attend to it somebody who was very very animated all of a sudden maybe they were normal a minute ago now they're very very animated as you're talking about their vehicle maybe there's something in that vehicle they don't want you to see in fact do you remember now when you first stopped them they jumped out of the car and left the door open means they want to get back in that car and they don't
want you going up to the car I need to look in that car now what's going on are they constantly looking at the vehicle are they constantly looking at some location some place are they constantly putting their hands in their pockets against your will all things you're going to attend to and the thing is this is all stuff you've learned this is all stuff you were trained to do the problem is day to-day people just absolutely leak anxiety all the time so we begin to ignore it stop ignoring it start reading it again makes you
safer makes your backup safer and it makes you a better investigator remember every traffic stop is an investigation so let's investigate let's keep catching bad guys and let's stay safe till next time I'm Dave Smith we'll see you again
