Allen a.k.a. Destroyer
Yellow Belt
Ok, I'm not entirely sure where this post would be most appropriate... but it seemed like a knife defense kind of thing...
I overheard local news talking about a high school kid (or was he middle school? i forget) walking into a school police officer's office area and just stabbing him with a knife.
Stupid. The kid had issues I'm sure... but that's not the reason for this post...
Instead of employing any kind of knife defense disarm and restraining the troubled kid... he pulled out his gun and shot him. Notice I said "had issues" in the earlier sentence. Mhm... "He's dead, Jim."
I understand that if someone is coming at you to cut/stab the odds are pretty high that you're gonna be cut/stabbed before you even realize there's a knife. Panic, ok... I understand that... But it just seems that police officers could use some serious regular training and not just police academy. I wonder how often most cops do any kind of training for things like that. Every time one of my area instructors has offered seminars for local police no one ever shows up. It's like they think they know it all, or their gun is the only answer they'll ever need, or is it just the mentality of the police in my area, or... I don't know... I'm no cop, maybe I should be.
My point here being a life could have been saved, thrown in a correctional facility and maybe had a chance to do something with their life. Yeah, maybe a longshot, but still...
Any thoughts?
I overheard local news talking about a high school kid (or was he middle school? i forget) walking into a school police officer's office area and just stabbing him with a knife.
Stupid. The kid had issues I'm sure... but that's not the reason for this post...
Instead of employing any kind of knife defense disarm and restraining the troubled kid... he pulled out his gun and shot him. Notice I said "had issues" in the earlier sentence. Mhm... "He's dead, Jim."
I understand that if someone is coming at you to cut/stab the odds are pretty high that you're gonna be cut/stabbed before you even realize there's a knife. Panic, ok... I understand that... But it just seems that police officers could use some serious regular training and not just police academy. I wonder how often most cops do any kind of training for things like that. Every time one of my area instructors has offered seminars for local police no one ever shows up. It's like they think they know it all, or their gun is the only answer they'll ever need, or is it just the mentality of the police in my area, or... I don't know... I'm no cop, maybe I should be.
My point here being a life could have been saved, thrown in a correctional facility and maybe had a chance to do something with their life. Yeah, maybe a longshot, but still...
Any thoughts?