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Originally Posted by aka123
What a fuckt up practices. In here police moves always as pairs. Same is in the military, don't wonder around alone (land, sea or air). These are basic tactical practices.
Glad to hear that, that Mr. Rambo got me worried.
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The town my friend works in has about 7,500 people. They have about 15 active duty officers and a few others like an evidence officer and a detective. Most of the time there are 2 of them on patrol at any given time. Sometimes during the day there will be more and sometimes they will have reserve officers riding with them. My friend has even said at times on graveyard shift the cover shift person leaves at 3am so the graveyard person is actually alone in the town until 6am when dayshift comes on.
I also know several city and county cops. Most of them are alone in their cars. It all has to do with budgets. They get budgets cut, but still have to cover the same amount of area and time so personnel and training are cut.
Here is something interesting. My buddy's department does what is called active shooter training. This is where they use guns that have paint bullets and they train for scenarios where deadly force may be needed. In almost every case the scenarios are ones taken from real life where officers were killed. Each officer will get run through 4 scenarios during the 1 day training. His department does this once per year which doesn't seem like very much. Most departments in the state will only do this every 3-4 years and some don't do it at all.