@BlueVeins I get Noah's angle butbthe articles aren't as appologetic as it seems. Quite the opposite. What they are saying is in training officers spend almost all their time training on using their firearms and little on batton, taser, and spray. With insturctors emphasisisng the importance of their firearm in a situation. So it almost comes down to an instinctual muscle memory reaction in some cases such as this. Which makes a lot of sense. The articles are blasting hiw poorly trained officers are in situational awarness and in their complete gear set.
We need to acknowledge a big part of this ongoing problem is in a large part from the toxic "quantity over quality" culture in Prosecutor offices. The qhole quota systems and " and an arrest and guilty verdict is the only measure of performance". Instead of puttung value on proper arrests and verdicts.
