Edwin Pantoja

Detective Sergeant Edwin Pantoja is a 27-year veteran of law enforcement and founder of ForceEffects Training, which is designed to teach anyone in a combative situation how to safely and efficiently subdue a person resisting arrest.

Articles by Edwin Pantoja

• 6-step defensive tactic that may save an officer’s life

  Wednesday, April 06, 2016

  ​The internet and social media channels are full of countless civilian videos that portray officers struggling and/or becoming increasingly frustrated while trying to arrest a subject. In some of these instances, you see officers losing their cool as they cannot effectively control and arrest the subject.

• The real ramifications of resisting arrest

  Wednesday, February 10, 2016

  Many people seem to misunderstand what exactly resisting arrest is. You don't have to physically assault a police officer or prevent an officer from doing the arrest. Although the legal definition varies from state to state, to be charged with resisting arrest can include running away, threatening the officer or providing false identification.

• What’s still missing in today’s police training?

  Wednesday, December 09, 2015

  ​Viral videos of police/citizen encounters are coming in by the truckload. Over and over again we're seeing these encounters go bad quickly. Both citizens and officers are being injured/killed, or the officer winds up losing his or her job, and even going to prison.