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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
The police need extra training so they don't shoot people.
https://www.policeforum.org/assets/I...e1_Aug2021.pdf
100% if that officer was taught (and used) de-escalation techniques like ICAT he's not shooting there. Never. It's 100% going against every de-escalation training technique being taught today. It's escalation. You're aware the first shot occurred when the victim had a knee on the ground, right? He wasn't going to close the distance without some Goku level instant-transmission.
As for ARWEN, they should be used in conjunction with firearms in a situation like this when the person is actually a threat. You know, standing, facing the police, looking like they may charge. And, should it fail, your other officers are there with a firearm.
Instead the ARWEN was used here to get the attention of the man doing some weird ninja crawl not even paying attention to the officers.
Explain to me, and PERF, what harm it would have been to wait for him to at least have 2 feet on the ground before they shot him with it? Where would be the harm in another half hour watching him do his breakdown? None? Okay then. |
100%? Come on now. Now you're just being obtuse. What are you basing this on? Your own experience in such encounters?
That training. It's great. And I am sure ALL of that was considered.
What would be the harm if he got up and ran the opposite way into a business. Or down an alley into an apartment? And with a knife after already demonstrating both irrational, unresponsive and assaultive behavior? I suppose then you'd be asking why the police did nothing.
I guess what I am saying is that it sure is easy to sit behind your computer and second guess what did happen with very little training, knowledge or education on the matter. And you can post a training manual and say that you believe 100% of the time, it works. But I don't think that's realistic or sincere.