About LiveScenarios™
LiveScenarios is an optional module for the DART system that facilitates de-escalation, crisis intervention, and related training that relies on communication and interpersonal skills.
Rather than using pre-recorded video, LiveScenarios allows the trainee to interact with a live person(s) within the simulation. The result is true two-way communication in which everything the trainee says and does matters.
every encounter requires communication.
Less than 3% of officer encounters involve the use of force; however, every situation requires communication.
For decades, departments have used pre-recorded video scenarios to teach and practice de-escalation skills, but they fail to replicate the most important variable in any encounter: human interaction.
If you’ve ever experienced one of these scenarios for yourself, you’ve felt it—that disconnect. The person on the screen can’t hear you. They don’t respond to your tone, your questions, or your presence. To prepare for the real world, officers need a training experience that listens, adapts, and evolves like the situations they face every day.
LiveScenarios™ replaces scripted video with something far more powerful: real people fully integrated into rich 3D environments. This patent-pending technology allows true two-way communication. Trainees speak, react, and adapt just like they would in the field.
Videos
The days of branching movies are over. For decades, simulation training has relied on pre-recorded video scenarios to practice de-escalation skills, but they fail to replicate the most important variable in any encounter: real-time interaction. See how new technology from DART forever changes how de-escalation training is done.
Benefits
Authentic Responses
LiveScenarios offer true, real-time interaction and adaptability to participants’ choices. This allows dynamic responses to diverse scenarios and means that trainees and subjects are free to respond exactly as they would in a real situation.
Laser Focused
Because you control the content, training is laser-focused on your precise needs, school resource officers, patrol detectives, undercover work, etc.
Increased Frequency
Unlike obsolete video scenarios, LiveScenario training is repeatable. Do it again and again using what you’ve learned from previous training sessions.
Greater Thoughput
Unlike traditional role-play training that occurs once or twice a year, training with LiveScenarios can happen much more often. Students can run through several completely different scenarios in under 30 minutes.
De-Escalation Training Videos
LiveScenarios also comes with more than 35 minutes of de-escalation training videos covering nine important topics.
We’ve all heard the stories of the old cops responding to violent calls without backup and being able to defuse the situation without incident. Or the lone officer making the arrest on a wanted felon who was in a car with three family members who were not pleased. How did they do that? The answer: a cool head going into it, good communication throughout, and keeping their wits about them. Each video is about five minutes long and features concepts and ideas relevant to de-escalation.