I sure hope you are alone. Although trained to the extent possible, it would take a robot to avoid adrenaline and warranted nervousness.
I remember an account, a couple of decades ago, of a "holier than though" rabid anti-gun nutjob (we all know the type, "why can't you shoot him in the leg? or shoot the gun out of his hands?" level of stupid) politically connected who got a "ridealong" with a sheriff deputy one night.
The car had to respond to a dicey scenario involving a drugged up nut with a gun in the middle of the night.
Short version, she went ballistic and started running around shouting, Shoot the sunofa****h already!!!" while dodging bullets.
Reality truly sucks.
When we lived in the burbs, MrT5 and I belonged to a group that did neighborhood watch, etc-and we both did a couple of ridealongs on graveyard shift. Even in that burb, many miles from the city limits and a low-crime area, answering a call for a suspicious person or an alarm going off at a business was beyond creepy-made the hair on my neck stand up, as I tried to look in all directions at once, mind focusing all senses into warp drive.
That said, the cop who shot that guy sounded totally hysterical and unhinged-more like the reaction of a civilian who was threatened-that is not a temperament able to handle a situation like that well at all-and apparently, he didn’t. I’m not judging, since the facts are still not known, but I am making a personal observation...
Someone mentioned to me that here in Chicago the cops decided they were going to start putting vids up of some of the worst crap they walk into, just so all the cry babies can witness what these brave men and women face all damn day.
Thank you for being a voice of reason on this case, I’m laughing at comments that site the druggie chick as the definitive account of what actually happened. SMH