JT>  JP> gun.   Sorry to hear the rest of you aren't 
JT>  JP> up to Jay's standards.
JT> I, too, am a firearms intructor, avid reloader and 
 JD> plinker.  I tend to be a
JT> wee bit better shot then most.  But most, suck.
 JD> Jeff,
 JD> This weekend I had a scary conversation with a local LEO. He told me 
that 
 JD> his dept only alloted 240 rounds per year for training and 
qualification. 
 JD> Now, I'm a poor boy, but I still can usually manage a box a month just 
to 
 JD> stay in the hunt. I've got a sick feeling that we are 
 JD> creating more victims 
 JD> by failing to provide adequate training for our LEOs. 
 JD> 240 rounds a year!!! 
 JD> That's awful.
We provide a bit more shooting then that, but not a "lot" more.
The powers that be, in some larger depts, see shooting/practicing as a 
somewhat waste of time.  IE, odds are the officer will NEVER use his gun on 
the job.  So they focus more on issues that are likely to get them sued.
Some recent classes I've seen offered:
First responder
Hazardous materials
I can't think of the name of it, but it's basically, how to be ethnically 
aware.  
Laws of search and seizure, 
laws of arrest.
Report writing.
Pressure point and tactics
There are some, but rare, firearms _training_
Yeah, you can qualify 4 times a year, but what the folks need is 
firearms training, not just qualifying.
We have a night shoot coming up in august.  :)
later
jeff
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