I've really lost sympathy for the "breakdown in training" excuse these days, largely because I've personally been to two firearms training schools and two self-defense oriented dojos that offered free or deep discounted classes for LE, and of those four, one dojo has had two cops take them up on it. The others will get maybe one LE student every 2-3 years. These are classes worth several hundred being offered for a $20 registration fee, or dojo memberships up to $80/mo offered for a one-time $25-40 to cover the cost of a gi.TexasTornado wrote:What really sticks out to me in this case is that one officer chose to draw a non-leathal option where the other chose the deadly force option. To me personally this looks like a breakdown in training
Looking around at instructors I haven't had the pleasure of training with, nearly every one of them has a reminder on their FB page that LE get free memberships, and when I've asked, none of them got good turnout on that unless they're connected to an academy, and even that pretty much only gets them cadets and first year rookies.
If your job has the potential to put you in a position to take someone's life, you have a basic responsibility as a human to find training in every reasonable alternative.