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Rory Miller
Rory Miller is a seventeen-year veteran of a metropolitan correctional system. He spent seventeen years, including ten as a sergeant, with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Portland Oregon. His assignments included Booking, Maximum Security, Disciplinary and Administrative Segregation, and Mental Health Units. He was a CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team) member for over eleven years and Team Leader for six.
His training has included over eight hundred hours of tactical training; witness protection and close-quarters handgun training with the local US Marshals; Incident Command System; Instructor Development Courses; AELE Discipline and Internal Investigations; Hostage Negotiations and Hostage Survival; Integrated Use of Force and Confrontational Simulation Instructor; Mental Health; Defensive Tactics, including the GRAPLE instructors program; Diversity; and Supervision. Rory has designed and taught courses including Confrontational Simulations; Uncontrolled Environments; Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill; CERT Operations and Planning; Defensive Tactics; and Use of Force for Multnomah County and other local agencies. In 2008 Rory Miller left his agency to spend over a year in Iraq with the Department of Justice ICITAP program as a civilian advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a blackbelt in jujutsu and college varsities in judo and fencing. He also likes long walks on the beach. His writings have been featured in Loren Christensen’s “Fighter’s Fact Book 2: The Street” Kane and Wilder’s “Little Black Book of Violence” and “The Way to Blackbelt.” Rory is the author of “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence” published by YMAA; “Violence: A Writer’s Guide” published by Samshwords; and the soon-to-be-released “Facing Violence” out in May 2011 from YMAA. |
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MEDITATIONS ON VIOLENCE
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FACING VIOLENCE
Preparing for the Unexpected Rory Miller tagline Genre: Non-Fiction |
TRAINING FOR SUDDEN VIOLENCE
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VIOLENCE
A WRITER'S GUIDE Rory Miller tagline Genre: Non-Fiction |
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CONCOM
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TALKING THEM THROUGH
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FORCE DECISIONS
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SCALING FORCE
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PRINCIPLES-BASED INSTRUCTION
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CHIRON TRAINING JOURNAL
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CHIRON TRAINING 2005
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CHIRON TRAINING 2006
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CHIRON TRAINING 2007
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CHIRON TRAINING 2008
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CHIRON TRAINING 2009
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WORKING WITH A TRANSLATOR
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CAMPFIRE TALES FROM HELL
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