One of the things that I learned during 25 years of soldiering as an infantryman and leader is that soldiers will do what you train them to do, and, properly led, they will do it extremely well. Train hard and right in peacetime and you know exactly what to do when the bullets begin to fly even if your buddies face has just turned to goo.
My sense is that law enforcement training has gone around the bend. LEO’s are doing what they have been trained to do and I think that training has changed for the worse in the past 15-20 years. They have lost sight of their purpose and have become something that the public has every right to fear.
That is what it seems like to me, they are like regimented Borg, filled with simple instructions, don’t think, don’t analyze, don’t try to assess each individual and each individual situation, instead, assert total physical domination of every interaction and remove ALL personal risk.
That is why we can’t call them to diffuse situations and handle the drunk relative with the knife, or who is breaking up the furniture anymore, they won’t show up to diffuse the situation or talk someone down and help us out, instead their sole purpose is to show up and end it, which frequently means driving up, yelling a couple of commands, and then snuffing the problem person.
One of the things that I learned during 25 years of soldiering as an infantryman and leader is that soldiers will do what you train them to do, and, properly led, they will do it extremely well.
Well, this one broke training. The guy he f'ed up isn't white.
All white, every one.
Police,Ems and Fire are taught that their lives are more important than the mere subjects.