Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
Many years ago (24+?), the good idea fairy landed on the shoulder of one of our captains' shoulder. On the friday before a L-O-N-G holiday weekend issued a policy memo (force of a real policy for 60 days) stating that we'd write a memo every time we drew our handguns. Hands down, the BEST supervisor I ever worked for handled it correctly. He had us write the memo every time - alarm call, building search, hinky car stop, shoots fired call, etc. When the captain returned to work on tuesday, his door was blocked by a stack of memos. The policy memo was rescinded by friday.
Said captain had the RARE distinction of being knocked out, as a deputy during a SWAT call-out, by a team sergeant for flagrant stupidity.
I'm good, really good, with Chuck's recommendation of documentation when muzzle covers meat. I'm absolutely against documentation of a Scott Reitz' low ready.
The whole de-policing movement reminds me of this line from an old play/movie: "It's dangerous to challenge a system unless you're completely at peace with the thought that you're not going to miss it when it collapses."
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
My old Chief instituted the "thou shalt not fire at or from a moving vehicle" policy as well after we had what was a good shooting on a driver trying to run over an officer. He just didn't like the shooting, and the family didn't understand why their douchebag had to be shot.
Fast forward several years and I am at a briefing as the PD commander to the motorcade for FLOTUS. The Secret Service did not have a CAT for that trip so my people were it. We are getting the briefing about expectations, one of which is that any vehicles trying to ram their way into the motorcade needed to be lit up.
Ummm, yeah Chief, about that, no, your policy forbids it. He went on about how we had exceptional circumstances in this case. Nope, the policy is clear, there are no time-outs for exceptional circumstances. Very poorly thought out, and poorly written, but VERY clear.
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Someday....in a magical world, someone will get police administrators to figure out if you train folks not to do things works far better than writing a policy. One of the big things I did in training was to emphasize not shooting at cars to stop them, as it is usually useless. If a car needed to be stopped that bad, the way to stop it was shooting the driver.....and be able to justify that based on our normal deadly force policy and not just trying to stop a car. Once we focused on that......folks stopped shooting at moving cars. We had drivers justifiably shot in cars, but the whole shooting at cars thing stopped with training rather than writing a restrictive policy.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
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