Monday, August 25, 2014

Police Militarization. Its not about the gear stupid!

American Mercenary has posted a great article on the issue of Police Militarization.  Read it here, but consider this tidbit.
When you have these "high speed" toys and you train to use them, you train to use them in a certain way. The assumption is that you "train heavy, dial back as you need" but forget that you don't "rise to the occasion, you fall back to your level of training."
Training to be officer friendly is boring, not sexy, and won't help you pick up chicks. Contrast that to a week at a shoothouse doing dynamic entry drills.
For better or worse we have a whole industry that is setup to just spoon feed tactics to police that should be only used on the battlefield.

Additionally we have the US military regularly training in cities with police turning them into "frontline" battle units.

From my seat the terrorists have already won.