but lack of training is an issue,
i can tell you first hand... many cops.... MANY COPS...... just can't scrap... and it's a HUGE problem
this might be a bit lengthy, but i'm wordy..
@Black_Samson can possibly verify, cuz if i'm not mistaken he used to train police officers in the very thing imma talk about....
many folk on the IC remember and had fun with the little BJJ run i had back in like 2011-2013...i'd post pics in my gi and niggaz would die laughing.....good times....
anyway... there was something extremely alarming about my stay in the gym... i left right before police shootings became such a large media priority, i heard that the tension in the gym got pretty extreme when they were going down,.. largely because about 30-40% of our gym was cops....
cops got a discounted rate....in fact cops get a discounted rate at most martial art gyms... simply because of my main point from the beginning
most cops cant scrap...and that's a problem....
okay....lemme break down why this is a problem....
i'm 6 foot even, 270 at my heaviest.....
say i'm confronted by a cop.....
if the cop has absolutely no faith whatsoever they can physically take me in a scrap..... guns come out....
i've rolled (wrestled ) with quite a few cops at that gym... some even bigger than me....
and with only 2 years in highschool, and 1 redshirt freshman year at college...i was a ridiculously higher level grappler than those dudes...
there was this one big ass pg county cop.. niggaz eas easily 6'3" 325....and i was manhandling this dude.....
what does that do to him mentally? how is he in the field.. here he is this big imposing figure....but if he confronts someone who is not intimidated.. how well will he fair?? i can tell you right now, anyone that wants to get away from homie can get away.....
these cops need to be more confident in their physical abilities...they know a gun will stop a person, but they also know they can't... and that's why they so fucking gun happy
and the fighting community knows this....that's why it's a discount to police officers at damn near every gym in america...
police should know how to fight....and fight well......there's no reason i should be able to kick an average cops ass....
there's no reason any normal civilian should be able to whoop a normal cops ass...
you cant just whoop a normal soldiers ass... not one with combat training....
extensive combat training should be a must....
you should not be allowed a gun until you can physically take down and cuff a person who is larger than you. man or woman.....
i don't believe cops should be in the field at all unless they whooping some ass....
as fucked up as it sounds i'm much rather prefer police ass whoopings to police shootings