The clip is a re-creation of an event that took place in in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where two officers are confronted by a subject in the bedroom of a home. At the end of the minute violent confrontation, one officer and the subject are dead. In discussions that follow, the majority of officers are critical of what they perceive as a lack of action on the part of one of the officers the one who was killed. While this is a sound tactic, almost no agencies are training their officers to do this.
Only a few said that their agencies trained this in the s and s and almost no agencies include this as part of their recruit training in If we are not training officers to use this tactic, how can we expect that in the heat of battle, in a close and violent fight for their lives, they can come up with the plan? Time and safety are common excuses for not conducting this training. This is unacceptable. Safety in training must be of paramount.
Start slow and build on the principles and concepts during the training program. When training officers to make close-in head or body shots, the officers can safely train with peers acting as the subject by utilizing plastic training guns make sure they go through the motions of pulling the trigger.
The officers can then progress to using training dummies or photo-realistic targets using Airsoft weapons or weapons configured for nonlethal training ammunition NLTA. From there the officers can proceed to carefully controlled and scripted live-fire exercises. Striking dummies can also be used to teach attacks to the throat and eyes, and create the opportunity for officers to strike these areas with power. By cutting out the eyes on the training dummies and replacing them with fake eyes the officers can get the feel of actually driving fingers into the eye sockets.
If training with other officers, make light contact to the eyes and imagine driving fingers into the eye sockets. Instructors must stop making excuses and start doing the training. Excuses get people killed, realistic training saves lives. The first indication you might have that you are in a gunfight could be when you get shot. Once that is accomplished, move to a better tactical position, get help on the way, and assess and treat your wounds.
In order to engrain this response into the subconscious, officers must be trained in these tactics by walking through them. They must imagine being in the situation, being shot and doing whatever is necessary to win the confrontation. Remember, officers can be put in realistic, winnable situations in training where they are also shot with NLTA and continue to function and win the fight. When these steps are completed, the officer is programmed to win.
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