Yep, nit to mention:
The marketing team at Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. sends along this helpful explanation for the “No More Hesitation” series:
“The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989907/posts
“....one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard....”
There is something very demented about that.
Hey, asshole -- the lives of officers, while precious and not to be thrown away, are NOT to be saved at the cost of increased fatalities among innocent civilians!!!!! If you don't like the job on those terms, get one that you're more suited to. Asshole. Oxygen thief.