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Another example of intervention gone wrong.

https://youtu.be/yOZgWA4si60

Some of the material mentioned in there I snagged from Craig at AMIS and when I relayed that to some police buddies in my area it was like a lightbulb went on for...

Precisely.

Not necessarily because you were stuck in a mode of thinking, but because you've just put on a face mask and you've been handed a sims Glock. Shit just got real, and your brain can't...

The story says that the shot girlfriend came through the front door with a gunshot wound screaming for help.

Now my instinctive reaction would be to Alamo up in case shooter wants to come in and...

I wasn't in the room for this one, as I was awaiting my turn on the merry-go-round of awful, but folks in the room told me the same thing. There was a "Wait...that was it?" reaction to his run.
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Stress inoculation is certainly a significant part of the program, and that is incredibly valuable...especially for the average joes and police officers who will not get exposure to that level of...

The bit you are missing with that is that the binary decision making model is what people revert to under life or death stress.

It's by no means optimal, but it is reality. There is a reason why...

Indeed. Many mistakes were made...but I think those are common mistakes that many would make. This was something of an ambiguous situation, at least when the would-be Good Samaritan got involved.
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So here's a real story where many of the things mentioned in this thread come into play:
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I think this may be hitting near the paydirt of the conversation. There's a difference in someone who is holding a gun because they are about to by-god fix some stuff in a minute and someone who is...

According to one of the role players, gravitas. Confidence. She approached, without hesitation he gave a command and she instantly followed it. It wasn't even a forceful order or anything...she...

As in how many instructors are out there making a deliberate effort to familiarize their students with the level of ambiguity that they are likely to encounter in real life.

I wonder about the done correctly part.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but I regularly encounter people who have been through some level of training who react as if every stranger that...

So here's a question I have for the people who have some level of experience with this sort of thing:

Knowing that the verbal interaction is only 1 part of a much larger picture that a bad guy...