Litigation & Risk Management

In litigation involving law enforcement, attention often focuses on the actions of individual officers during a critical incident. While those actions matter, courts, juries, and experts increasingly examine what occurred before and after  the incident, including supervision, command response, and organizational accountability. Critical incident review plays a central role in this analysis. A critical incident review is distinct from a criminal or administrative investigation

Critical incidents are inevitable in policing. Officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths, serious uses of force, and other high-risk events place immediate and long-term demands on police leadership. How an agency responds after such an incident often matters as much as what occurred during the event itself. Critical incident review is a structured, leadership-level process that examines decision-making, supervision, communication, and organizational response following a