This Is an 8-Foot Knife Attack. You Have One Second. Go! Pete Blair:

https://open.substack.com/pub/tacticalscience/p/this-is-an-8-foot-knife-attack-you?r=1z6equ&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

What Was the Issue?

Law enforcement officers face real and immediate danger from close-quarter knife attacks, yet most of the research—and a lot of training—focuses on threats from 21 feet or more. What’s missing is an understanding of how quickly a concealed knife attack can unfold from conversational (interview) distance (around 8 feet), and how attacker characteristics like age, sex, and movement type impact the speed of that attack.