On Jan 11, 1998 08:24pm, RICH WILLBANKS wrote to RICH GRIEBEL:
RW>>> close to cover.  To drive him under cover while you
RW>>> reach cover you would have to fire some (several?)
RW>>> semi-aimed rounds at him while you move.  After
RG>> We don't drill to semi-aim, we drill to hit the target.  A
RG>> loose round can do some serious damage to a bystander.
RG>> Profile, target, double tap, move, profile, target, double
RG>> tap, move, until you're back under cover.
 RW> And while you are profiled you make a very good target.
 RW> If the shooter is already under cover and you are
 RW> standing in the open trying to aim at him you are just
 RW> asking for him to shoot you.  You'd be better off not
 RW> firing at all and just running like he!! for cover.
Profiling is blading the body down so as not to make a large target, and 
moving
for cover.  Point being it's drilled into us to take the time to see, verify
and shoot directly at the target.  That includes checking the background 
like
don't shoot when the background is a grade school), finding adequate cover or
concealment all while covering the target.
It all falls under all that time we spent on the range at the academy, night
shoots, combat courses, etc.  There's a shoot, don't shoot drill at the 
Academy
where the range officer yells out "he's got a gun", "he's got a knife", etc 
o
see what we'd do.  You don't know how many time the pizza guy got shot.  Most
of those people didn't graduate.  Shoot him once, he's forgiving, shoot him
twice or three times, there's a problem.
And yep, they are blunt in the Academy, we are asking to be a target.  Thats
why they try to give us the best training possible.  And the stats they throw
at us at the Academy is the shooter will not be going for cover (our last 
three
shooting incidents involved a perp that stood right out in the open) when
confronting a Police Officer.  The situation is generally different then that 
a
private citizen gets involved in.  I've had enough contacts with aggressive 
and
assaultive subjects to back that up.  They are definitely not interested in
hiding from me :)
 RW> Also the average citizen doesn't wear body armor
 RW> either.
You'd be amazed at the number of bulletins we get involving heavily armed bad
guys that wear body armour, or maybe you wouldn't be...
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