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Joe,
I know what you mean. A few weeks ago we had a four day new-guy training for a couple of guys that just got out of the academy. We also had to remediate a couple of officers that were currently in the FTO program because of some officer safety issues and the brass wanted to give them some more time before canning them. The problem was perception of danger. During some Red Man scenario training, on of the officers decided to handcuff the suspect without waiting for their fill unit and then when it was time to use the baton, kept laughing like it was a game. Then in other scenarios couldn't perform and blamed it on "being a scenario" and not wanting to hurt the instructor, blah blah blah.
After that class, I have begun to think that you can teach them the technical aspects and try to instill the mental preparedness but after that it is going to be on them to be "switched on" or have their head up their a$$. you can hope that they will get their act together once they get on the street, and maybe they just need to have something go wrong on the street for them to start to pay attention. You just hope that nobody else gets hurt because of their problems......
It was a few years ago, but in my town there was a local transient that would always fight with the cops and the FTO's used to purposely aggitate this guy so their trainees wouold have to fight him. This may be a good thing to try.....
But it gets worse when you have a cop or worse a supervisor who has been on the job for 20 years and during that time has never had anything bad happen to them.....Don't even try to talk about being complacent....This is all I hear, "Well, it hasn't happened in my twnety years here....." I just want to bang my head on the wall.....
rant off.
stay safe,
m
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