SavannahMann
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The Police are trained to shoot. Shoot fast, shoot often, and keep shooting. What they are not trained for apparently is how to hold your fire.
Body-cam captures New York City cop killed in a struggle with suspect 'reaching for his gun' | Daily Mail Online
When I was a boy, and my Father had me at the Gun Range learning how to shoot the .22 Rifle my first time. Dad taught me to think before I shoot. Was there anything downrange I did not want to shoot? Was there anything between me an the target? These lessons were always there. When I joined the Army, we trained to always know where our buddies were before we shot, we did not want Fratricide, killing our buddies. As a Combat Engineer who crawled out in front of Infantry to clear obstacles so the Grunts could get to the enemy, I was especially aware of the risk of Blue on Blue fire.
The problem is that cops are trained to shoot first, shoot often, and keep shooting. I have posted before about the cops in California who shot six hundred rounds at the baddies, killing the hostage, and most of the cops shooting were either shooting dangerously close to their fellow cops, or had no view of the target, and were shooting anyway. Blue on Blue in the Army was what killed Tillman in Afghanistan if you remember. Someone got trigger happy, and kept firing when the path was blocked by friendlies.
In New York, this caused the death of a fellow cop. So does this mean we have a war on cops, by cops? Are cops in the midst of a Civil War killing each other? Or is the poorly trained reality starting to come home? I have said before, the policies and procedures are in almost every case, a result of the wrong lesson being learned from previous shootings.
I wonder what lesson will be learned from this event? I have no faith that they will learn fire discipline, the term for reducing blue on blue fratricide. Instead they will decide that they have to shoot even sooner, to avoid the chance that there might be a friendly between them and the baddie.
Body-cam captures New York City cop killed in a struggle with suspect 'reaching for his gun' | Daily Mail Online
When I was a boy, and my Father had me at the Gun Range learning how to shoot the .22 Rifle my first time. Dad taught me to think before I shoot. Was there anything downrange I did not want to shoot? Was there anything between me an the target? These lessons were always there. When I joined the Army, we trained to always know where our buddies were before we shot, we did not want Fratricide, killing our buddies. As a Combat Engineer who crawled out in front of Infantry to clear obstacles so the Grunts could get to the enemy, I was especially aware of the risk of Blue on Blue fire.
The problem is that cops are trained to shoot first, shoot often, and keep shooting. I have posted before about the cops in California who shot six hundred rounds at the baddies, killing the hostage, and most of the cops shooting were either shooting dangerously close to their fellow cops, or had no view of the target, and were shooting anyway. Blue on Blue in the Army was what killed Tillman in Afghanistan if you remember. Someone got trigger happy, and kept firing when the path was blocked by friendlies.
In New York, this caused the death of a fellow cop. So does this mean we have a war on cops, by cops? Are cops in the midst of a Civil War killing each other? Or is the poorly trained reality starting to come home? I have said before, the policies and procedures are in almost every case, a result of the wrong lesson being learned from previous shootings.
I wonder what lesson will be learned from this event? I have no faith that they will learn fire discipline, the term for reducing blue on blue fratricide. Instead they will decide that they have to shoot even sooner, to avoid the chance that there might be a friendly between them and the baddie.