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I had a run in with a CCW'er last night...
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Brown" data-source="post: 1592735" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>And your post, if applied without context, is over or mis-used as well.</p><p></p><p>My life is more important than yours; To ME. Your life is more important than mine to you.</p><p></p><p>The rule "Always go home alive at the end of your shift" is about officers not succumbing to errors of body or mind, not about mistake of fact shootings caused by someone else's mistakes. It has context; you have simply chosen to ignore it or believe that others have.</p><p></p><p>All the officers I know understand the difference or they wouldn't get through their shifts without murdering someone nightly.</p><p></p><p>If you really believe this concept is overused, you must have a lot of experience in this area to make such a broad statement, so you must be a police officer. Then you would have some perspective for your belief. </p><p></p><p>Since I'm guessing that you're not a police officer, I would direct you to the FBI's Officers Killed and Assaulted Summary which for years has been quoted as saying the profile of a murdered officer is consistently one for whom "customer service" was top priority, so obviously your statement lacks empirical evidence. </p><p></p><p>Now, because of the nature of my job I may die trying to protect someone else or maybe even trying to protect their worthless property. Does this mean I valued their life or their property more than my own? Any logical person could recognize that this is not the case.</p><p></p><p>What is does mean is that I take a calculated risk, which may be incorrect, based upon the facts presented to me, frequently in very rapidly evolving situations such as the four or five seconds it takes to go from an officer receiving a driver's license and SDA permit to a driver reaching for their insurance and exposing a firearm. The hope is that an ever-changing combination of luck, skill and experience will result in no one getting hurt. </p><p></p><p>However this ever-changing combination varies every time a police officer contacts a citizen, or vice-versa, and sometimes the combination of luck, skill, and experience is not enough to extinguish the situation and someone gets hurt, either officer or citizen. This is simply the nature of interpersonal contact.</p><p></p><p>That does not mean that the purpose of the contact was worth the officer's or the citizen's life. It simply means that in this imperfect world, imperfect things happen.</p><p></p><p>So when applied in the context of all the officers I know, the rule "Always go home alive at the end of your shift" isn't overused or invalid. It is simply a human rule that is subservient to the truism that "tomorrow is a promise to no one."</p><p></p><p>If we would quit nit-picking statements and ignoring the context of those statements, we would probably all get along a little better........</p><p></p><p>Michael Brown</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Brown, post: 1592735, member: 18"] And your post, if applied without context, is over or mis-used as well. My life is more important than yours; To ME. Your life is more important than mine to you. The rule "Always go home alive at the end of your shift" is about officers not succumbing to errors of body or mind, not about mistake of fact shootings caused by someone else's mistakes. It has context; you have simply chosen to ignore it or believe that others have. All the officers I know understand the difference or they wouldn't get through their shifts without murdering someone nightly. If you really believe this concept is overused, you must have a lot of experience in this area to make such a broad statement, so you must be a police officer. Then you would have some perspective for your belief. Since I'm guessing that you're not a police officer, I would direct you to the FBI's Officers Killed and Assaulted Summary which for years has been quoted as saying the profile of a murdered officer is consistently one for whom "customer service" was top priority, so obviously your statement lacks empirical evidence. Now, because of the nature of my job I may die trying to protect someone else or maybe even trying to protect their worthless property. Does this mean I valued their life or their property more than my own? Any logical person could recognize that this is not the case. What is does mean is that I take a calculated risk, which may be incorrect, based upon the facts presented to me, frequently in very rapidly evolving situations such as the four or five seconds it takes to go from an officer receiving a driver's license and SDA permit to a driver reaching for their insurance and exposing a firearm. The hope is that an ever-changing combination of luck, skill and experience will result in no one getting hurt. However this ever-changing combination varies every time a police officer contacts a citizen, or vice-versa, and sometimes the combination of luck, skill, and experience is not enough to extinguish the situation and someone gets hurt, either officer or citizen. This is simply the nature of interpersonal contact. That does not mean that the purpose of the contact was worth the officer's or the citizen's life. It simply means that in this imperfect world, imperfect things happen. So when applied in the context of all the officers I know, the rule "Always go home alive at the end of your shift" isn't overused or invalid. It is simply a human rule that is subservient to the truism that "tomorrow is a promise to no one." If we would quit nit-picking statements and ignoring the context of those statements, we would probably all get along a little better........ Michael Brown [/QUOTE]
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