I want to preface my opinion with this: 99.999% of use of force incidents by police would be avoided if suspects complied with the orders of the officers. Suspects are culpable in their non-compliance. With that said, officers are also responsible for their actions and decisions. It’s possible for you to be legally right and morally wrong. There is an ethical, not just legal, aspect to the use of force.
I have over 20 years of experience as a federal security, police and corrections trainer, including firearms and use of force. Some students were stellar. Some were washed out. Most were in between. The best were the students who’s verbal skills allowed them to de-escalate the threat and avoid a use of force altogether. The best students wanted to end an encounter without a use of force.
At the basic academy, students would go through a pretty intensive 3 or 5 day basic firearms course.
We took students from zero to proficiency in short order. I think we also taught them that every time a weapon was drawn, it was fired because every time they drew their weapon, they fired it.
Many use of force and firearms trainers want you to see threats everywhere. It’s their job to keep you alive. . What they’re teaching students is everyone is out to kill them.
If every simulator scenario you present ends with an armed suspect, you’ve just taught the student that every suspect is armed.
If every role-playing scenario ends in a lethal force situation, you’ve just taught the student that every encounter ends in a use of lethal force.
It’s just as important for a police officer to understand the consequence of shooting an innocent as it is to learn the consequence of being too slow to fire.
This right here is part of the problem.
I have over 20 years of experience as a federal security, police and corrections trainer, including firearms and use of force. Some students were stellar. Some were washed out. Most were in between. The best were the students who’s verbal skills allowed them to de-escalate the threat and avoid a use of force altogether. The best students wanted to end an encounter without a use of force.
At the basic academy, students would go through a pretty intensive 3 or 5 day basic firearms course.
We took students from zero to proficiency in short order. I think we also taught them that every time a weapon was drawn, it was fired because every time they drew their weapon, they fired it.
Many use of force and firearms trainers want you to see threats everywhere. It’s their job to keep you alive. . What they’re teaching students is everyone is out to kill them.
If every simulator scenario you present ends with an armed suspect, you’ve just taught the student that every suspect is armed.
If every role-playing scenario ends in a lethal force situation, you’ve just taught the student that every encounter ends in a use of lethal force.
It’s just as important for a police officer to understand the consequence of shooting an innocent as it is to learn the consequence of being too slow to fire.
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This right here is part of the problem.
Paul Peloquin
Did government credibility die of Covid or with Covid?
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