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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Still, I'm not sure what pointing the finger at the cop who froze accomplishes.
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I think it comes down to training, orders he received, and explicit expectations of him as an officer.
As asinine as I will sound, if you are trained to do something and expected to do it under certain circumstances but don't, you are failing to do your job. That's just a universal requirement for every single job there is really.
With this one being a life-or-death situation it's certainly not the same as me forgetting to put the new coversheets on my TPS reports but if the Las Vegas department has procedures and training in place for situations like this and he failed to do it, that is an unfortunate problem that really should give them grounds for dismally. You need to have your officers behaving predictably especially in these situations with such chaos. Following their training, meeting expectations, responding to orders. So if he was trained to do it one way, like say to go in quickly to confront the shooter to prevent further casualties and putting himself at risk, that's really an expectation of him (and not to say that Vegas police shouldn't re-evaluate their training and procedures). Conversely, if he wasn't trained in a situation like this, then that's on the department.
I don't blame him at all, but if you're freezing up during high-pressured situations you shouldn't be put in a role where you will deal with high-pressured situations - like being an officer.