schneebly111
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- Mar 23, 2023
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US cops are given bugger all training in every aspect, including surprisingly in firearms since they use them so much. Other nations give their police extensive training on accuracy, limiting rounds fired and preventing collateral damage to bystanders which takes time and money. US cops are taught “spray and pray”. Basically a bunch of cops surround a target and if anyone flinches all those cops empty their entire magazine into the target. Most bullets they fire will miss but with so many being fired some should hit and kill the target, shame about the bystanders.
This “spray and pray” tactic is very easy to learn for the average numbskull who the police department recruits and means the departments don’t need to spend much on training. This occurred when police officers moved away from 6 shot .38 and .357 revolvers to high capacity semi automatic pistols with 15+ round magazine capacity. Most of the time the cops didn’t carry more than 6 rounds, and even if they had spare bullets with them they take time to reload into a revolver. Now with semi autos they can switch mags in 2 seconds, and they cart 4-5 spare mags with them so a total of over 100 bullets per officer on duty is common.
In addition every US police squad car now has an AR-15 rifle, it’s not just the domain of SWAT teams (US SWAT teams are basically mechanised infantry). Multiple 30 round 5.56mm rifle calibre rounds so the average 2 person US police patrol car may have several hundred rounds of ammo inside.
And to take this problem even further the amount of police agencies in the US is so extensive that one incident can generate a response from dozens of differing agencies all with their own poorly trained highly armed officers. Let’s do a comparison with Australia. The state of Victoria has 2 police agencies, VicPol which handles most law enforcement and the AFP who handle the more serious stuff. 2 law enforcement agencies for 6.7 million people. The US state of Indiana is the closest in population to Victoria. In that state you have the Indiana State Police, the Indiana State Excise Police, the Department of Natural Resources Police, the Corrections Department Police, the Gaming Department Police, the Medicaid Fraud Police, the Social Security Police, 92 County Sheriff’s Offices, over 450 individual town and city Police Departments, 23 College and University Police Departments, 12 County School Police Departments, the Amtrak and Railroad Police, 4 Airport Police Departments, 7 Hospital Police Departments and 93 Country Prosecutor’s Departments. In addition there are the Federal Law Enforcement agencies that operate in Indiana like the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, US Marshals, NPS Rangers, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Immigration, 4 US Military Police and Criminal Investigation Services, Forest Police, Animal and Parks Police, Department of Commerce Police, Food and Drug Administration Police, TSA Police, Department of Housing Police and a hundred other Federal agencies.
They all have poorly selected, poorly trained, quick to panic officers armed to the teeth. When people say the USA is a police state it’s literally true.
