Police academies generally have high fitness standards for graduating from the academy. They also have a minimum shooting qualification standard as well. However, once officers graduate there are usually no physical fitness standards. And some departments have an easy range qualification only once a year. So, officers need to have their own fitness program and they need to go to the range often on their own. The officer in this case did not have good cardio. Foot chases are common. So, fitness is important. Otherwise officers can be easily overpowered by violent suspects. The suspect in this case was insane and was running around with a gun in a residential neighborhood. Shooting the suspect was justified because the officer could not let the suspect endanger citizens like he was. But the officer fired a number of shots and missed the suspect every time. Therefore each round fired was a danger to citizens in the backdrop.
I agree with all of your points. But besides that, his voice also showed a lot of stress in that initial confrontation which was before he started the footchase over the fence and well before he fired shots. Having heard that sound many times on the radio when I was on the job, it is a sign of high stress. I'm a little surprised that a Toledo officer with 8 years of experience hasn't seen something like this before. It's not all that uncommon, even in smaller cities and towns such as where I worked. I hope he goes through a lot more reality-based training (virtual video, simunition, etc). Regular training in this area will help him out a lot but so will this incident. I say this all not to ridicule, but in the hope that he learns from this. I suspect that @wtjonesphd9375 feels the same way. Better fitness and better training makes the job a little easier to do.
Police academies generally have high fitness standards for graduating from the academy. They also have a minimum shooting qualification standard as well. However, once officers graduate there are usually no physical fitness standards. And some departments have an easy range qualification only once a year. So, officers need to have their own fitness program and they need to go to the range often on their own. The officer in this case did not have good cardio. Foot chases are common. So, fitness is important. Otherwise officers can be easily overpowered by violent suspects. The suspect in this case was insane and was running around with a gun in a residential neighborhood. Shooting the suspect was justified because the officer could not let the suspect endanger citizens like he was. But the officer fired a number of shots and missed the suspect every time. Therefore each round fired was a danger to citizens in the backdrop.
I agree with all of your points. But besides that, his voice also showed a lot of stress in that initial confrontation which was before he started the footchase over the fence and well before he fired shots. Having heard that sound many times on the radio when I was on the job, it is a sign of high stress. I'm a little surprised that a Toledo officer with 8 years of experience hasn't seen something like this before. It's not all that uncommon, even in smaller cities and towns such as where I worked. I hope he goes through a lot more reality-based training (virtual video, simunition, etc). Regular training in this area will help him out a lot but so will this incident. I say this all not to ridicule, but in the hope that he learns from this. I suspect that @wtjonesphd9375 feels the same way. Better fitness and better training makes the job a little easier to do.
Have you ever been in that type of situation? Once you have or if you have, then you can speak from expirence.
The 911 caller is absolutely fantastic!!
Holy Toledo! That was crazy.
Good ol' drugs.
Lack there of actually, he wasn’t taking his prescriptions, he has schizophrenia..
Quiere decir que los que se estan trepando son los que doman
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