Hold Your Fire Review: A Riveting Account of Hostage Negotiation Tactics

In 1973 Bushwick, Brooklyn, four twenty-something African-American Muslim men entered John and Al's Sporting Goods store with the intent to steal guns. Hold Your Fire recounts a terrifying siege that would change police tactics. The documentary rivetingly portrays the birth of hostage negotiation in a city boiling with racial tension. A dangerous situation that lead to innocents shot, and an officer killed was diffused by a revolutionary New York Police Department (NYPD) psychologist. Harvey Schlossberg PhD represented an ideological shift in confronting violence. Going in guns blazing had historically led to unnecessary casualties. Schlossberg and progressive leadership in the NYPD took a chance on a new methodology.

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