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Book two by Stephen L Cohen

Tactical Social Defense: Protecting Your Job, Privacy, and Family After a Defensive Shooting

You can be legally justified and still lose your job, your accounts, your relationships, and your reputation.

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THE TACTICAL U STANDARD

Legal justification does not preserve the life around you.

The standard is controlled communication and deliberate protection of employment, relationships, accounts, and reputation while facts are still forming.

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The operating problem

Tactical Social Defense

This practical manual addresses the third fight: institutional and social fallout. It covers containment, communications, and consequence control when employers, banks, platforms, media, and personal networks begin making risk decisions around you.

Inside the book

Practical controls you can use

  • What to say to employers, coworkers, and concerned friends
  • How reputational damage spreads and how to slow it
  • How to lock down devices, accounts, and public posts
  • How institutions de-risk people and what to do before it happens
  • How to build a disciplined post-incident communications plan

Who it is for

Built for people responsible for consequences

People who need to protect employment, accounts, relationships, privacy, and reputation after a high-attention incident.

About the author

Operational experience, translated into usable standards

Stephen L Cohen is an author and senior operational practitioner with more than 32 years of law enforcement experience, including SWAT, federal task force work, and dignitary protection. His books focus on decisions, documentation, risk controls, and the consequences that follow high-liability events.

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