That wasn't an excerpt from a Cop show that actually happened. One of those officers caught some pieces of glass around his facial area he only missed a few days of work the other got a superficial wound in his upper arm. Training and skill is what gets you through harrowing experiences like that. The suspect lacked skill he relied on just spraying bullets and hoping for the best and because of that he lost his life. I really can't say why those Deputies in Florida didn't go into the school to confront the shooter. It really isn't my place to judge them or their agency's policies. I think it is safe to assume if they were anything like the two Officers in the video that shooting would have had a different outcome.
Jim
Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin
From your description there are several critical differences that simplified the matter for the two officers you have described:
1. they were looking at one person vs. a hall full of people
2. they were outside vs. inside a building
3. they knew their target as they approached vs. not knowing
4. they did not have to search vs. searching for a moving suspect
All that one has to know IS THE FACT that the Florida shooter was able to blend in the students and leave the building right under the noses of LOTS OF OFFICERS, because he was arrested down the street away from the school after he left with other students.
Apples and Oranges.
That's the problem with anecdotal examples.
EVERY CONFRONTATION HAS DISTINCT SETS OF CHARACTERISTICS.
That's like media and others saying "Routine Traffic Stop"!
There is no such thing as a "Routine Traffic Stop"! All different.
That's why when someone who was not there says "I'd do this or that" ... or "He didn't know what he was doing!" ... etc., etc., .... I just call bullshit. No one KNOWS what they would do in any given situation until they are in the middle of it. There is a fine line between being a "fool" and being a "hero," and that line is usually whether one lives or dies.