ABSTRACT
The intent of this text was to demonstrate how risk management of less lethal options requires a complex multitiered approach, with no simple answer or quick fix. The authors liken this approach to Mr. Miagi’s in the classic American movie, The Karate Kid. The student begins with many assigned menial tasks while impatiently waiting for the real karate training to begin, not knowing that by waxing cars and painting fences he was learning the essential lessons of karate all along. Each of the preceding 10 chapters in this text represents the “menial tasks” from which to build the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively integrate risk management and liability reduction within a less lethal program.
