You have trouble seeing P Dog? I saw the perp going around the driver's side of the cruiser. Wondered when he was going to try to make the kill. But Be Well, Packy.
I saw several tactical errors made by the Officers. If one officer was alone, good chance he would be dead. Glad for the outcome, but yet another example of some people should not be free and roaming in public.
There's ALWAYS going to be tactical errors when shots are going in both directions. Bad guy is dead and the cops survived.
The misconception is that all LEO's are highly trained in such shooting skills. Nope! My observation based on 43 years worth is maybe 1 in 3 is 'good', 1 in 5 very good, and 1 in 10 really good. Tops
There are only X number of training dollars/time, and shooting is way down on the list compared to lawsuit avoidance, ethnic awareness, community awareness, report writing, law updates, etc.
P.S. And like P-Dog said, I have no idea who the officer was shooting at when the bad guy rounded the rear of the patrol vehicle and started banging on his head. Don't know, but I wasn't there.
Posts: 3276 | Location: Western Slope Colorado, USA | Registered: 17 August 2001
Spent 34 years as a LEO. Saw a lot. Experienced a lot more. Training is the best thing BUT training can never cover all the situations faced by LEOs on a Dailey basis. Things change constantly and even the most alert officers must sometimes struggle to keep up with a rapidly evolving situation. Many times it just goes back to your training, your instincts and reactions…. No matter what happens or how well you react the arm chair quarterbacks will chime in on what you should have done. If you are alive at the end of the day you did it right ! All else is secondary.
