Tactical Attorney
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You are expected to know the law like a lawyer. Nobody trained you like one.

Officers get sued for mistakes they were never trained to avoid. Some get charged. The Tactical Attorney teaches you the law the way a lawyer learns it, so you know the rules before the plaintiff's attorney does.

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The law, the way I teach it to cops.

New Mexico Search & Seizure

New Mexico Search & Seizure

Use of Force Law

Use of Force Law

Curtilage vs Open Fields

Curtilage vs Open Fields

Erik Scramlin teaching search and seizure at the IACP 2023 conference

Teaching search and seizure at IACP 2023

New Mexico Search & Seizure

The Fourth Amendment is the floor. Article 2, Section 10 is the rule. Learn the New Mexico version of every warrant exception, so your evidence stays in.

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Officer point of view drawing a Taser on an aggressive man in an apartment doorway

Use of Force Law

Classroom and reality based training. Graham, Garner, Section 1983, the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, and the duty to intervene, taught so you can apply it at 2 a.m., not just recite it.

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What it costs to guess.

A suppressed search and a dismissed case. A civil rights lawsuit with your name on it. An IA investigation. A cross-examination that ends your career. Most of it is preventable, and none of it is taught in the academy the way it needs to be.

Erik Scramlin, the Tactical Attorney

I have spent my career next to cops.

As a New Mexico Chief Deputy District Attorney, a police legal advisor, and a civil rights defense attorney for officers, I watched good cops lose cases, and sometimes careers, over rules nobody taught them. So I started teaching it myself. No death by PowerPoint. The law, taught by a lawyer who has been in the courtroom, to officers who need it to stick.

Erik Scramlin, the Tactical Attorney

Meet Erik

Three steps.

  1. 1

    Schedule a call. Tell me what your officers are running into.

  2. 2

    Choose a course, or we build one for your department.

  3. 3

    Train. On site anywhere in the country, or virtual. NMDPS approved in New Mexico.

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Also available

Officer Prosecutor. Courtroom Testimony. Drafting Search Warrants. Fourth Amendment Search & Seizure. AI in Policing. Instructor Development. Keynotes and conference speaking. Policy and SOP review.

All training

Know the law. Enforce it with confidence.

Built for New Mexico officers. Available to agencies nationwide.

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