Your responses are well thought. Thank you! I actually have been in several bad situations and made my own mistakes.You fight like you trained and train like you fight . I know it's hard to comprehend if you have never been in that situation but your muscle memory and trained response to the threat is doing one thing while your brain is doing another. I'm not mentally challenged , well at least not severely but I have been in stressful situations where my brain said to do one thing but my instincts or training did another . Would have, could have, should have is always after the fact . Yesterday a 14 year old was accidentally shot through a dressing room wall , I don't know if the cop was a jerk or not . Should he/ she have taken better aim or not even shot ? I don't know the circumstances but I know it was tragic and hope and pray the situation is investigated fairly and politics is left completely out of it . The percentage of good cops versus bad cops will be more leaning towards bad or unqualified if we keep making it hard on the ones who are trying the best they can in bad situations .
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I will give a couple of examples.
In one instance, my government issued Adventure Line M-16 magazine failed to feed. Instead of taping the forward assist, I did tap, rack, bang as I was trained in a handgun class. My civilian training kicked in instead of my Marine Corps training.
The other example was a 103M transport call. These are usually trouble free because the person has consented to go to the hospital. This one changed his mind after I arrived and did a bonzai charge with a golf club(#3 driver.) My pistol was drawn before I knew it, but I did not fire. We fought each other after I managed to get the club away from the old man and was able to reholster my pistol(practice and muscle memory works well there.) After taking a few punches to the face and getting help from 3 of his neighbors, I managed to cuff the old man. He even kicked me in the chest while putting him in the car. While writing the report at the old 3rd District station on Moss st, full-time officers told me one by one "I would have shot him." Was that a mistake? I sleep better at night with my decision that day. This was the incident that caused my Wife to make me stop volunteering as a Reserve Officer. She was also tired of me working tons of hours during Mardi Gras for free.