FYI Dave Spaulding (the Author of that Article) is a LEO or Retired LEO.
TS,
I whole heartly agree with what you are saying. I believe the biggest problem that plagues LEO's in a gunfight is there mindset and there training. All academy's (that I know of) teach the 1970's mindset of create distance and time blah, blah, blah and most Agencies will not teach a 'close with and kill mentality' or even let that type of training enter into there circullum. That's saved for the SWAT Cops
. To me that is NEGATIVE TRAINING. Because they set a precadent of only letting there "Special Cops" get the training that will truely save there life.
I thinks this is derived from an adminstrative level mindset. Police Admins don't look at situations, calculate losses in there planing phase, then go foward with the best plan Columbine comes to mind here. On that note the only good thing to come out of Columbine is it forced LEO Admins to teach or atleast provide some training in seeking out and ellimating the threat. Basically LEO's Admins don't except or plan on taking losses, so they don't plan on or accept to take losses. If they do they pretty much just shit themselves. Bottom line there is no "Acceptable Loss" when in comes to LEO gunfights. Where as the Military calculates losses and moves forward on accepting projected losses provided the plan is sound.
Wooow sorry for the rambling its late I've had way too much coffee and am working a double. Hope all that jibberish makes sense tomorrow.