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As a note on his reload, one comment I read elsewhere pointed out how him switching the pistol to his left hand like he did seems a perfect example of doing a revolver reload. When I watched it with that in mind, it seemed to fit, and might be in part why he fumbled with the magazine. It made me wonder if the officer originally learned on revolvers or was taught by someone that had and he either defaulted to or did what is really a revolver reload with a semiauto.
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I think something we should remember is that being a police officer does not automatically make one a gun enthusiast. It is a tool that they have to carry and qualification is usually just once a year. I'm not sure if there are any departments that mandate a specific amount of practice. For officers who aren't gun enthusiasts, practice is probably a range session or two right before they have to re-qualify. This obviously does not apply to SWAT/SRT.
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Just based on this four minutes of bodycam, I can't really see anything that the guy did badly wrong. He seemed to keep his head, handled the pursuit reasonably well, and when the roads cleared, he took extreme measures to get them shut down before they reached another populated area. Traffic was quite thin when he started shooting.
Something that I'm going to seriously stand by was that he focused on stopping the passenger who restarted the car, and was going to take off again. I am sure that it's a hard call about whether he should have stopped the car or went off after the runner, but he did see that the door was locked and he ran. Guy couldn't have easily gotten into the school. I have a healthy respect for what it takes to run a police car. It's not just driving. I would prefer to see the walkie capable of use by a steering wheel button control. If he had another magazine, he should have reloaded after taking out the car, but he had a lot going on right then. He was through shooting and moved on to other issues that covered the whole area and he failed to realize that he was suddenly very short on ammunition. Five rounds left, was it?
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As far as training, in my experience the "average" officer varies a lot in skill. I've seen patrol guys that really impress, and others not so much. I would agree that to get to people with the skill level many people seem to expect from police you almost always have to get to SWAT or SRT guys. Those are the guys really putting in the trigger time. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk |
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The point I tried to make, and is so often ignored by comments in discussions like this, is that there is almost never a risk-free alternative in an armed confrontation. The very best that we can do is estimate what might be the course with the lowest risk of a bad outcome and the highest probability of a good outcome.
Another principle is that the acceptance of risk of collateral casualties goes up with the risk of not acting. It is the same idea as accepting more side effects in cancer drugs than in a cold remedy - if the disease is bad enough, or the bad actor is acting badly enough, you start to more accepting of side effects or the risk of unintended casualties. |
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I don't know exactly how far the run was, but the video appeared to show that it was less than four minutes. He picked up on the guy and he started to run, what was it, thirty seconds before the first volley? The guy went into oncoming traffic a little bit after that, ran a light, went into oncoming once again and turned across it, whereon the cop followed.
the BG was at that time in a very low traffic spot, it appeared, there was a brick monolith to the side, I didn't see any indication that he was in a high risk area, as if he was in a really busy shopping area with traffic piled everywhere and passers-by on foot. Should he have notified dispatch that he was about to fire on the driver? It was a reasonably safe area to do so. I don't know exactly what the upcoming traffic situation was. Here's a link to the area of the shooting. https://www.google.com/maps/place/E+...4d-115.1058123 If I'm understanding this correctly, and I'm not certain of my map skills, he was right on his way into a downtown casino district and the interstate. Might have given him a sense of urgency?
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THAT hit was highly improbable shooting thru your windshield AT THE REAR of another vehicle with both cars moving at speed AND the risk of collateral damage was HIGH As to mtpl rounds doing better at penetrating auto glass... that only holds true if your bullets go thru the compromised area. His shots looked to be in about a 5-8 inch group. Not thru an existing hole. Each round he fired had to make its own way thru the glass. Not a recipe for success. When you weigh the risks, there were other options that held more chance of success and lower chances of harm to the public. Last edited by Sharkbite; July 19, 2018 at 03:12 PM. |
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In my experience, shooting out through a windshield will send the bullet upwards. Shooting in through a windshield from outside the vehicle will deflect down. It's counter-intuitive, but the bullet tends to leave perpendicular to the glass.
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When I was a young cop we had a shooting where the BG was fleeing in a motor home. If I recall correctly it absorbed 200 some hits from 158 grn 357 magnum and 00 buck before running out of gas.
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Depends on the distance to the target from the glass and how steep the angle on the glass.
When shooting into the vehicle its seemed pretty negligible as the target is usually very near the glass pane. When shooting outwards, the point of aim had better be around the knees for a center mass hit at around 20 yards or so. YMMV
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I'm going to have to talk to the guys at our practical shooting club about trying that. I'm not sure about range regulations though since I doubt they want glass all over the range.
On a separate note, what about shooting the tire versus shooting the wheel? I heard bullets can actually bounce off of tires. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the angle of the shot. Direct shots should penetrate, but angled shots have a chance of bouncing off. There have been a few cases where head shots did not penetrate the skull, but traveled under the scalp instead. I can't imagine that felt too good.
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In my bullets and vehicles class I actually ended up with a massive bruise on my lower leg. It was from a ricochet off a tire. I didn't notice until that night. Bullets can indeed bounce off tires, and even those that penetrate cause a very slow leak due to the self sealing nature of rubber. From what I saw you'd have to go to a rifle round to really have an effect.
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You might try Barnes bullets , they tend to cut a clean hole at least in metal.
The newer spike strips use metal tubes so the tire air comes out of the tire. in the old days many patrol cars had hinged windshields ! Bring them back !
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I have seen a 223 go right through both sides of a tire. I've seen a 45 ACP bounce off a tire (hit perpendicular to the tread face) and bounce back giving a person a large bruise on his chest. Funny, you could clearly see it on the way back - not enough time to move though.
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A guy I know was firing a black powder revolver, .45, I believe, and shot an oak stump. they were all bouncing off, thrown to the side, until he got one right square on a center point and it bounced right back into his chest. Slow, light, lowest possible sectional density is the one best way to make a bullet bounce right back at you. All you have to do is shoot at a material that it can't possibly penetrate or crush, and it needs to have a little spring to it.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
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Wasn't it the Oklahoma State patrol who used his AR15 to fire through his windshield at a fleeing vehicle? Where is that vid.. it was awesome
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The dude was driving at speed, firing his shouldered AR through the windshield and talking on the radio. I was impressed to say the least
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