Civic health
Last night I got a chance to meet our small town's new police chief, who is retiring from a mid-sized Texas department where he supervised 600 employees to take on our little 30-man department here on the warm coast, where his family has liked to vacation. I was delighted with him. He seems like one of those salt-of-the-earth, God-and-country, solid family men, besides being fanatically devoted to the Bill of RIghts: a great mix of determination to find a way not to let criminals ruin the lives of others, without losing sight of his obligation to respect all our rights.
He told a revealing story about once messing up the chain of custody of evidence on a good drug bust and being furious that the bad guy was getting off on a technicality. His mentor settled him down saying, "You know this isn't the defense counsel's fault, right? It was your mistake. And it's not a fatal mistake. The guy's not going to say, 'Whew, that was a close call, I'm going to go get a job and turn my life around.' You'll get him next time."
He made some good remarks about how the system does favor the defendant, but it's supposed to, because the Bill of Rights was written by outlaws who were tired of seeing the rich guy sic the police on the poor guy without due process. A solid constitutionalist.
He married his wife about a month before 9/11, when he had just taken a job as a police officer and they had just bought a house. He worried about whether the new marriage could bear up under his sudden deployment (Navy reserves). When he drove up to the new house his wife had just moved into, he saw a U.S. flag flying from one porch column and from the other, a Navy flag with a yellow ribbon on it. He got himself a keeper.
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the Bill of Rights was written by outlaws who were tired of seeing the rich guy sic the police on the poor guy without due process
Now see, that knowledge served us passably well for more or less nine generations. Too bad our civilization seems to be running away from this lesson as fast as can be.
But Reagan still authorized vaccine lawsuits to be impermissible, killing them in government arbitration courts as unbiased as the IRS was towards conservatives.
I get mighty suspicious when the government comes in and says certain things cannot be litigated or reported on.
Whew, that was a close call, I'm going to go get a job and turn my life around.' You'll get him next time
Isn't it better for society if he did do that... but enforcement agencies rank their success based on successful prosecutions or cases.
That has an interesting deleterious effect if the alternative was equally as good or better, but wouldn't make for a successful case. The good old institutions perpetuate themselves via a tradition and culture. That culture is not always a good thing in the long term. Look at the Deep State. They didn't start in the last few decades.
In re "Isn't it better for society if he did do that."
Had a guy in the class ahead of me, in a small town high school.
He started hanging out with some "really cool guys" from the nearby city.
One day they were in a hurry to get to a great party, with him driving - they wanted to stop at a store to get something to take to the party, and asked him to wait outside with the engine running.
As you've guessed, what they were getting was money via armed robbery.
After that, the kid from my school stopped hanging out with them and lead a straight life.
That did seem most likely. My second thought would be, remote detonated vbied under the car. Finding ways to get rid of people in an accident makes for good defenses as well. Check for modifications.
...the Bill of Rights was written by outlaws who were tired of seeing the rich guy sic the police on the poor guy without due process...
Very well said. It's a rare peace officer who grasps that point, and rarer still the one who is prepared to accept the principle as a guiding one for himself and his department. That's a kind of moral health rarely on display.
Ymar: It would be less rare if police academies weren't run by union money and other shenanigans.
The easiest way to perpetuate a culture is to pull veterans off the front and have the veterans teach the newbies. Starship Trooper style?
The masters obtain apprentices and disciples. Djedi (Egyptian mystery school). Craftsmanship masons (journeymanship). Yeshua bin Yosef, aka The Christ, 12 disciples and somewhat more apostles.
I was involved with one organization helping to create a community dinner for the local police force. There were approximately 2 exits, and one side/back hidden one. One enforcer I was talking to, had his back to the main exit and he seemed to having a good time. His partner had his back to the hidden exit, his right side to the auxiliary exit, and his front to the main exit (the open doors). I felt an intuitive need to tell him that he needs to be more alert and to watch the exit, at least the primary one or the one his partner cannot easily see.
I would also recommend going through virtualization visualization of your draw hand from draw, to aim. Not anything exaggeratingly dangerous the way they teach in academies. But simply putting your hand on the holster, moving it slowly to where you would need to be to aim, and then putting your arm on your dinnerware acting as if you were going to eat or stretch. Anyways, figure it out. Subtle, non threatening movements, designed to adapt the body's reflexes to the current environment and tactical situation.
That way, no matter what happens (unless the sky caves in with SWAT black hats death squads), the mind and body has various Yellow/Orange/Red trigger lines. In this way, it is also the easiest to avoid unintended casualties and to refine the accuracy to peak. The way the bootleg military conditioning of the pseudo military style police academies do it is to have the trainees be at Red all the time. That's not going to end well. It's better to be at Yellow all the time, between white and Orange.
Red and Black are for emergencies and should be virtual simulated. Yes, even while eating and conversing with people.
In this fashion, everyone in 360 degrees can be targeted and neutralized. But it also means anyone not in a threat in 360 degrees can be saved or avoided.
One SF veteran told me that he considered graduates of police academies to be worse than West point LT bars. Because they hadn't been under combat stress, so they tend to under or over react. I had a good conversation with that guy. He doesn't allow his son to play FPS games because, as I also commented, the mouse finger tip trigger is the same finger conditioning for the trigger of a gun. It creates neural pathway conditioning, and those in specialized roles in the military understand what that can be used for in an intimate way.
Those that enforce the laws, enforcers, are at the tip of the spear, although not in the way the academy teaches them.
Compare the guy who has been in Yellow mode for 10 years, red mode for 15 seconds, vs the veteran officer who has been in red mode for a few minutes but yellow for a month, vs the rookie graduate that has been taught that he should be in Red and black mode every time he draws his weapon but yellow mode for less than an hour a day. It's hard to judge who has "more combat experience" but it is not always the guy with more "Red" time that is more effective. Too much combat time causes fatigue, exhaustion, PTSD, and guilt. Which prevents a person from maintaining the calm needed for Yellow condition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSN5xsXLrY
Don't know how good this one is, but some Doctor was doing a presentation, most likely part of Killology research team, and had his entire presentation transcribed on a website for Frontsight that I can't find now. That link is a short presentation for those that need a background debrief on the Frontsight color codes, which DHS sort of took and did... something after 9/11.
What makes a warrior is not their skill or their training. What makes for quick reactions and decisions is time manipulation. Use the NOW to defeat the future, strategy over tactical speed and firepower. There is no tactical firepower that cannot be defeated if things are done in time. Not even the might of the United States Superpower is immune to this... Vietnam. But most of all, to fight to kill others effective requires that one kill one's own survival instinct and ego, sense of self. It is that self sacrificial purpose that wars against the dark/shadow warrior that uses force to protect himself and ends up treating violence as an identity rather than a tool.
I did not "learn" these things so much as I remembered them. I agree with Frontsight not because their methods are new or innovative to me but because... they make sense. That is how it "should be done", isn't it. If humanity had genetic/racial/ancestral memory and access to it, it would be much better than the internet's prototype social media.
Most normal people, if they had to live in Yellow all the time, would become paranoid and afraid. There are a lot of threats to deal with. Maybe this is due to lack of training and proper mentorship, or maybe it is a weakness of the mind, heart, and body. Musashi was said to have bathed and kept his two swords with him, or some other implement he could use for defense. Why? Because killing someone in the bath was apparently a good trick back then. But as a killer of humans, Musashi knew how it really worked, and did not make exceptions for himself. He was as "easy" to kill as any other person he hacked down, if he didn't take that into account tactically and strategically. The best warriors know exactly how easy humans die. Because that's just how it works tactically speaking.
The Shadow Warrior, the enforcer that obeys orders no matter the cost, may think this is a good thing. They have the power of violence and every enemy dies, right? Try killing the Angel of Death that wiped out over 150,000 of your feeble "soldiers" in the middle of the night. See how that works out, Shadow boy.
There's always someone or "something" better.
It's not that it is a good or bad thing. It is just how it is. If you fall from 50 miles up in the sky, you may break a leg or two. That applies to anyone. If you get good at flying or gliding, that doesn't destroy the chance. Nor does it allow people to breathe up that high either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6oiaCDuHpU&list=PLKVRMm6i0kggMtjKecjF51t_0yp5ydPs8&index=4
That has a comprehensive explanation from the Law of One, on what exactly is going on between Light and Shadow warriors.
Normal people think the problem with police or military conditioning is the method or technique. That is only part of the issue. It's a spiritual conflict at heart, not a methodology conflict or a funding issue.
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