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My LE experience comes with an asterisk. Coast Guard LE is a very different animal than street LE. It's a different environment, a different tactical field and an often different public. I am always very up front about that and quick to admit that street cops have a much tougher job. Now having said that, that doesn't mean that some of the training, tactics and constitutional law don't transfer reasonably well. I also earned my certification as a reserve deputy in Harrison County MS. I didn't have much experience with that before Katrina hit, and I ended up moving and changing jobs.

Having been trained by the country and the state of Mississippi and having cross trained with officers from all kinds of local, state and federal agencies, I can say that our training and our emphasis needs to change. Far, far more time is spent training on shooting, and on when shooting is legally justifiable, than on tactics and strategies that deliver non-lethal outcomes. I well remember the first time I read in our LE policy manual that a "retreat may be the best option in certain circumstances" I laughed. We all did. Machismo runs deep in our ranks. It almost has to.
But over time I saw that it could indeed be the best option in certain circumstances.

Wilson/Brown would have been a great time to use a tactical disengagement. An unarmed Brown had already tried to take Wilson's gun. We can draw two reasonable conclusions from that. Brown wasn't armed and he'd likely do it again. When Wilson immediately reengaged him, and did so without the benefit of the immediately available cover, he put himself in a situation in which he was all but guaranteed to have to shot an unarmed man.

Had he waited until back-up arrived and/or put his car between him and Brown, we may not have BLM today. But the shoot was legally justifiable, so it was the best outcome right?

Antlers has amazing deductive reasoning skills and this is an example of his amazing talent...... for being wrong! hahahahhahahaha

Absolutely irrelevant.

The fact someone is trying to compare being in the coast guard policing and an inner city cop being a policeman is laugh out loud funny. Talk about apples and oranges. Thanks needed the laugh this morning.

I have been very clear in stating that the tactics don't always translate. If I have made a specific comment with which you disagree, comment on that.

I disagree with your whole premise. You were in the coast guard!!! You have never worked as an inner city cop so you have zero experience as to what the hell you’re talking about. Is that plain enough for you?

What LE experience do you have that places you in a position to state that with any degree of authority? It's borderline hilarious that people that never had the stones to do the job are telling me I am ill qualified to make a comment. I'll point out again that you are dabbling in generalities rather than discussing specifics. There's a reason for that.

I’m gonna manhandle you for passing a fake 20. Even though I’ve filed fraudulent tax returns for 6 consecutive years.

Sounds about right.

Your moral equivalence argument is a solid lefty move....... congrats....... hahahahahah

PB will continue to dig his grave w/ his mouth. Anyone dull enough to equate CG law enforcement w/ the daily life of a metropolitan street cop will not know when it is a good time to retreat and seek cover.


mike r

What LE experience do you have that places you in a position to state that with any degree of authority? It's borderline hilarious that people that never had the stones to do the job are telling me I am ill qualified to make a comment. I'll point out again that you are dabbling in generalities rather than discussing specifics. There's a reason for that.