The complete collection
Eight field manuals for consequences, continuity, records, corrective action, and decisions under pressure.
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A field manual has value only when its controls can be found and used under pressure.
The collection is organized as a working sequence: aftermath, social exposure, digital exposure, institutional continuity, defensible records, decision ownership, corrective action, and formal review.
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Book one • Start here
Surviving the Aftermath of a Defensive Shooting
Most firearms training focuses on the first fight, the split-second physical act of stopping a threat. The real danger often begins after the threat is neutralized: police contact, interviews, civil exposure, financial loss, and reputational damage. This is an operational manual for consequence literacy and reducing self-inflicted damage during the aftermath.
Complete eight-book catalog
Review the complete collection in order, from The Second Fight through Under Formal Review.
Book one • Start here
Surviving the Aftermath of a Defensive Shooting
An operational manual for police contact, interviews, civil exposure, financial loss, and reputational damage after a defensive shooting.
Book two
Protecting Your Job, Privacy, and Family After a Defensive Shooting
A field manual for the institutional and social consequences that can threaten employment, accounts, relationships, and reputation.
Book three
Privacy Protection and Public Exposure Control
A clinical manual for privacy hardening, information hygiene, and operational control of public exposure after a high-attention event.
Book four
Redundancy Rails for Institutional Shutdown
A practical manual for continuity when banks, platforms, vendors, or administrative systems restrict access through policy.
Book five
Forensic Standards for High-Liability Documentation
A practical standard for decision logs, evidence intake, provenance, chain of custody, version control, retention, redaction, disclosure, and audit readiness.
Book six
Decision Rights, Delegation, and Escalation Under Pressure
Most operations do not fail because somebody made the wrong call. They fail because nobody was sure who was entitled to make it. The Decision Owner is an operating manual for authority: who owns the call, what they may decide alone, when they must escalate, and how responsibility transfers cleanly.
Book seven
Why Problems Return and How to Stop Them
When the Fix Fails is for owners, supervisors, instructors, and operators who are tired of solving the same problem twice. It shows how to trace the cause chain, separate a symptom from a cause, test the corrective action, and prove that the control still works after attention moves on.
Book eight
How to Handle Audits, Interviews, Findings, and Remediation
Under Formal Review is for people whose work, records, and decisions are being examined. It covers preparation, document control, interviews, findings, remediation, challenge, appeal, and closure without improvising, overproducing, or allowing the review to drift beyond its stated scope.
All eight books
Two connected series for the problems that develop before, during, and after high-liability decisions.
One body of work
The collection follows the problems that develop before, during, and after high-liability decisions.
Books one through four
Books five through eight
About the author
Stephen L Cohen is an author and senior operational practitioner with more than 32 years of law enforcement experience, including SWAT, federal task force work, dignitary protection, and service as an NRA Law Enforcement Certified Firearms Instructor. His books focus on decisions, documentation, risk controls, privacy, and the consequences that follow high-liability events.
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