I believe that “thinking” capable people will agree with what I have said several times over the years on FR on this subject.
Namely, we must be realistic, Many of us, including this writer, do not know WHAT we would really, really do when faced with the prospect of opening that door and walking down that hall and confronting a shooter with lead flying by the dozens of rounds. I submit fully half of police officers on duty now could not turn that knob and walk into the middle of something like that. And, never mind what the damn “manual” says.
Navy Seal training offers us a good contrast in training. They don’t take every one of the people that apply. Instead they carefully weed out a high percentage of applicants then 80% of those same “applicants”, or more, quit during training.
Why? Well, yes it’s physically tough but it is also mentally demanding. This means the training is designed to weed out the cowards. Most guys can’t swim under a ship in a harbor (with 3’ of clearance between the hull and the ground), most can’t jump out of an airplane in the dark and free fall for many miles into a hot LZ.........and on and on.
Yes, the Seals weed out 80%. Most police forces accept anyone that shows up and then most of them graduate and too often because some PC rule forbids being too hard on the applicants and particularly women. Then, many of them then hit the streets and when an active shooter is killing kids inside a building they freeze up, just like Peterson and others have done.
What, as a society, do we not understand about this TRUTH of human nature.
What’s the answer. Live gunfire training with NO PC BS! It’s pass or Ring the BEll !
A better explanation is that they are cowardly, unionized government agents with contempt for the public they serve.
There were real heroes among the teachers and students. Can’t say the same for the police.
While I agree mostly, you should keep in mind that SEAL's, Army Delta, and other SpecOps are trained to kill. There are no cowards that apply for those positions. They just wash out for various reasons.
"Most police forces accept anyone that shows up and then most of them graduate and too often because some PC rule forbids being too hard on the applicants and particularly women."
You do make a point there. However, they are not trained to be killers. They are about law enforcement while dealing with stupid drunks, domestic nonsense, traffic, etc. on a daily basis. That said, I've learned long ago from the Rodney King riots in LA what cowards LEO's can be and how dis-functional their leaders are. I watched live on TV as they pulled out of ground zero and Los Angeles burned for days.
Sheriff Israel has his own cop-training rules.
Forget L/E——it’s not “progessive.”
Every one of Israel’s new cops gets a gun, a uniform, a two way and a spiffy new golf cart.
Israel “trains his cops” to sit in the car with the light on top, wait for early retirement, and collect a pension.