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Paladin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:07 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:08 pm

Paladin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:42 pm That is a sad commentary on police training.

I just now tried to go back and find it and couldn’t, but earlier this morning I ran across a Tweet where the poster was rolling his eyes because an acquaintance of his who was in a police academy told him he was going away for 2 days of training.

He asked "What kind of training?"

His friend answered "Combat training."

A. It takes longer than 2 days to train for combat.

B. Combat against whom? Why do cops need to know how to engage in combat?

This story shows that the kind of training a person who thinks he’s going to "go into combat" against citizens receives is grossly deficient: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-de ... riff-says/.

The roommates, who were taking a break from playing video games with friends, were talking when Lawson "jokingly" pointed a handgun he though was unloaded at Walsh and pulled the trigger, Ivey said. A single round was fired and fatally struck Walsh, the sheriff said.

Yes indeed. The military does some pretty intense training to prepare service members for combat and having worked with units training up for combat deployment, honestly there is only so much you can do for some of the 18-19 year olds. While I'm known for rapidly training individuals to high levels of firearms proficiency I think we can all recognize it that normally takes at least a decade to get particularly proficient with anything. The physical fitness training I did was well beyond what I hear about in typical Law Enforcement orgs, and you won't get that in 2 days. It is expected that typical National Guard units will required 90 days to train up for overseas deployment, and the National Guard units have already done a lot before that point.

Truly I believe that the original comment regarding police training was true. The police performance was consistent with their poor training. Paul Howe indicates there is just no motivation in law enforcement leadership to do better training.

For their part, the Gracie's have been trying to get law enforcement organizations to realize that better training(i.e. BJJ) equals better outcomes and less lawsuits... which pay for the improved training.

Paladin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:42 pm That is a sad commentary on police training.

The roommates, who were taking a break from playing video games with friends, were talking when Lawson "jokingly" pointed a handgun he though was unloaded at Walsh and pulled the trigger, Ivey said. A single round was fired and fatally struck Walsh, the sheriff said.