sheriff’s spokesman Lt. John Herrell said their silence was ‘tactically advantageous’.
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Another case of middle-aged wannabe’s mistaking themselves for Seal Team 6 and the SAS.
Sadly, its happening over here too. A national newspaper recently published an article written by two SAS officers who’d been involved in training (or attempting to train..) armed response UK cops.
It was highly critical, to put it modestly.
The first criticism was the lack of real physical standards.. a selection process that weeds most of the wannabe’s out.
The second was that most of ‘em were hotheaded mongs whose first question once they had one of their SAS chaperones sit down for a drink was some variation “Sooo.... ya’ killed anyone?”
Third was a description of an exercise where the officers were instructed to use minimal force, with SAS guys playing the aggressors and purposely running a scenario in which the hostages could be freed without use of lethal force. The cops, of course, jsut stormed in and shot everyone.
The last criticism was related to number 3, that the lack of tough selection.. both physical and psychological.. professionalism and training led to situations where once the adrenalin got pumping all the stuff they’d been taught went immediately out of the window in favor of the most violent response possible.
Sound familiar?