99 Signs of Danger Lou Sav

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99 Signs of Danger:

Lou Savelli, Instructor

The 99 Signs of Danger is a dynamic interactive multimedia course of instruction for

law enforcement officers designed to significantly increase their observation skills andtheir awareness of the signs of danger they face each day. This course will exposeseveral hundred very specific danger signs and illustrate how these signs manifest intypical law enforcement situations, such as traffic stops, field contacts, inmateinteractions, statements made, arrest situations, and many others. Officers will beimmersed into dozens of real-life video scenes taken from actual life threateningsituations faced by law enforcement officers but with expert commentary by theinstructor who has extensive real-life experience in suspect interactions, apprehensions,physical altercations, shooting situations and other dangerous interactions.Even though the class is called 99 Signs of Danger, there will be over 200 danger signsexposed and organized into 26 easy to understand categories. Students who attend this

class should be able to recognize the following 26 signs.

1. AVOIDANCE

2. TOO COOL/TOO CALM

3. NERVOUS

4. EXTREME NERVOUSNESS

5. FEAR

6. GUILT

7. DECEPTION

8. UNCOOPERATIVE/RESISTANT

9. STALLING

10. DISTANCING

11. DISASSOCIATION:

12. ANGER13. AGGRESSION: (Active vs Passive)

14. FLIGHT

15. FIGHT

16. CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATION: (Verbal and Non-verbal)

17. ARMED SUSPECTS

18. AFFILIATION

19. UNDER THE INFLUENCE

20. EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED PERSONS

21. VEHICULAR

22. MOTORIST

23. PERIPHERAL/SITUATIONAL

24. CRIMINAL PROFILING

25. LAW VIOLATION26. BOOBY TRAPS

Student officers will also be provided with an easy to remember officer safety system calledP.R.O.T.E.C.T. (Proxemics, Radius, Observe, Tactical Knowledge, Enact, Cover andConcealment, Think) in which officers will be able to immediately deploy in their dailyassignments.


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Learning Objectives

Students who attend this class will be able to

Explain the manifestations of dangers signs during traffic stops, in motorist behaviors,during field contacts, during inmate contacts, inmate security, suspect apprehensions and

suspect behaviors Explain danger signs in context

Explain danger signs within the totality of the circumstances

Explain the P.R.O.T.E.C.T. safety system

Explain the ten types of body language manifestations

Explain the danger signs associated with gangs, terrorists, extremists, criminals, drugtraffickers, persons under the influence, emotionally disturbed persons and dangeroussituations

Explain The Options of Effective Actions

Explain the ways to approach and culminate situations including disengageand return,cover, concealment, defuse, deescalate, defend, solve.

Explain the Winning Mindset and Win/Win/Win

At the end of this class, students will be:

Able to articulate dangerous behaviors and situations

More observant to the signs of danger

Able to utilize more options of actions in situations

Able to make more effective and safe decisions

Able to culminate situations to Win/Win/Win

INSTRUCTOR:

Sgt Lou Savelli, NYPD-retired


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Lou Savelli retired from NYPD after 21 years as a Sergeant and detective squadsupervisor of the Terrorist Interdiction Unit he created on September 11th, 2001 toaggressively hunt down al Qaeda terrorists threatening New York City and thoseresponsible for the attacks of 9-11. He and his investigators immediately conductedsecretive surveillance, cultivated informants and developed dozens of terrorist

intelligence sources. He and his unit arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists or terroristsupport cells. Early into his investigations, he identified strong partnerships betweengangs in the US and several terrorist groups. He is a veteran of the Rescue and RecoveryEffort at the World Trade Center during and immediately after the attacks of 9-11-01.

Lou Savelli created NYPD's first citywide gang unit called CAGE (Citywide Anti GangEnforcement) which was awarded the Most Effective Gang Unit in the US by theNational Gang Crime Research Center. He and his unit conducted several Conspiracy andRICO investigations on gangs like the Latin Kings, Bloods, Crips as well as working thestreets of New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods and arresting thousands ofgang members and seizing over one thousand firearms.

As a detective, Lou Savelli was a member of the NYPD Narcotics Division and NY DEATask Force during the time when the Colombian Cartels were at their strength andexceedingly violent. During this assignment, Lou Savelli and his fellow team membersset the World Record for the Most Cash seized in a drug case in one location: $20 Millionin cash during the raid of a fortified warehouse protected by 11 Cartel members armedwith Machine Guns and handguns. The world record held until 2007 but is still the USrecord. He also holds the second US Record when he seized 14 Million in cash in oneplace during an investigation into the Cali Colombia Cartel. During this time, he alsoworked investigations involving the Mexican Drug Cartels who were working closelywith the Colombian Cartels. His unit seized several tons of wholesale cocaine and heroinand additional money seizures in excess of $100 Million. He worked cases on PabloEscobar and his Medellin Cartel as well as Escobars right hand enforcer, Jose Gonzalo

Rodriguez Gacha. He also investigated members of the Mexican Gulf Cartel and itsfounder Juan Garcia-Abrego.

Lou Savelli has worked undercover to infiltrate street level drug dealers and high leveldrug traffickers dealing in large quantities. Lou is one of NYPDs most decorated

officers in the history of the NYPD. He has worked alongside or supervised operationswith almost every federal agency in the US, including FBI, ATF, US Secret Service,CIA, DEA, ATF, IRS, and ICE. Lou is currently training ICE Agents at the Federal lawEnforcement Training Center during the intensive two-week Advanced GangInvestigation School for gang agents. Lou provides lectures and hands on exercises toattending agents working gangs and drug cartels on topics such as Armed Suspects,Tactical Interviewing, Officer Safety and Gang Identification and Interdiction. He iscurrently providing several classes each year for the Midwest Counterdrug TrainingCenter (Iowa), Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (PA), Western RegionalCounterdrug Training Center (WA) and several HIDTA (High Intensity Drug TraffickingArea) training centers across the US.


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Lou Savelli is the cofounder and current Deputy Director of the East Coast GangInvestigator's Association and one of the first members of the International CounterTerrorism Officers Association. He is a member of the California Gang Investigator'sAssociation, International Latino Gang Investigators Association and several other ganginvestigators associations covering the entire US and Canada. He is a member of the

International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, the AmericanSociety of Industrial Security and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.Lou was chosen by former NYPD police commissioner William Bratton as one ofNYPD's Top Ten Most Effective Leaders of All Ranks (of 20,000 supervisors within theNYPD) and was twice awarded Supervisor of the Year. He was the first supervisorfeatured in the acclaimed NYPD Leadership School Newsletter for his hands on style ofleadership.

Lou brings his New York City street cop style to his training classes. Since hisretirement, he has been voted at the top of every training academy he has worked as thebest, most dynamic and most motivating instructors. In 2009, he was awarded Instructor

of the Year for the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center. He is highly entertaining,dynamic and proactive during his instruction and always focuses on officer safety andputting bad guys behind bars.

Lou Savelli is the author of several law enforcement books and dozens of related articles.He is a regular columnist for PoliceOne.com, POLICE magazine, PoliceLink.com,Corrections.com, American Police Beat Magazine and others. He is a frequentcommentator for International, national and local newspapers and TV News.

Lou Savelli appeared in 2010 on the History Channels 2 Hour Special The Secrets ofBody Language, along with other international Body Language experts, where heexposed behavioral danger signs and the characteristics of armed suspects. Lou Savellialso appeared on the documentary, Rap Sheet: Hip Hop and the Cops where hediscussed investigations by the NYPD of well-known Rap artists.

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