They’re trained like they’re MPs in the Baghdad Green Zone. Community police officer is out; MP is in.
Remember the good old days when police used bull horns to call to people inside houses and cops spoke slowly and clearly into them from a distance? If you heard a bull horn you thought “oh, that is the police,” not “oh, some thief or rapist is trying to get in and I gotta get my gun.”
This is a terrible thing for all concerned. Perhaps cops should have to undergo some sort of training from the civilian perspective for cases like these, so they can see what a civilian sees and hears when an officer filled with adrenaline shows up unexpectedly and fears the worst. Most of the time on the cop shows you cannot even understand what they are yelling and too starled to follow directions... what if a person is deaf or disabled? They should experience a few “visits.”
“”See a gun, shoot”.
“See a cell phone, shoot”.
“A dog barks, shoot”.
There needs to be something more to police training.”
Responding to a call of an open door - possible burglary or home invasion. Move up in the dark and someone points a gun in your direction......I guess you would have him run. Always blame the cop first mentality. Were you in the Obama administration?
So if you were the police officer thinking that a burglary might be in progress, and you look into a window and see a person pointing a gun at you, obviously you would have calmly and cooly stepped back and walked away? Come on. This is a tragedy and the a holes that are pandering to the civil rights crowd are disgusting.
Agreed.