People Are Dying Because Our Police Aren’t Well-Trained Or Aggressive Enough

By Bob Owens

NYPD Sergeant Hugh Barry did exactly what he was trained to do when he shot 66-year-old Deborah Danner.

That didn’t keep New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill and cowardly Bill de Blasio from attacking and betraying the NYPD, of course.

In a post entitled “A Crazy Woman With a Baseball Bat,” highly-regarded firearms instructor and active-duty police officer Greg Ellifritz laments that the moral cowardice of of cheapskate political elites have created a system where officers are actively dissuaded from going “hands on” with drunks and the mentally ill, and have forced officers to receive training that tells them they must resolve problems with either their guns, tasers, or chemical sprays. It’s a recipe for failure and death.

If that officer is anything like the average, he can’t physically fight his way out of a wet paper bag. He probably isn’t a brawny weight lifting stud because those folks are “too intimidating” to be hired. He hasn’t practiced with his pepper spray or Taser in a couple years. He’s done no integrative force on force training covering escalation and de-escalation using all of his weapons. The only recent training he’s had has been firing …Read the Rest

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