COPA Can't Police

Remember when they used to send media types through a set of Use of Force scenarios? And they pretty much all failed to follow some obvious rules, like identifying themselves as "police," reacting inappropriately to assailants, or shooting unarmed suspects?

Granted, it was a publicity stunt, but it taught important lessons, the primary one being that police have fractions of seconds to react and another being that mistakes can happen even after hundreds of hours of training. Police work - especially high stress, dynamic situations - don't lend themselves to easy solutions.

But don't let that stop the armchair quarterbacks from f#$%ing cops every chance they get!

• Hey SCC get this, sat in training and was told all of copa went through traffic stop use of force class/DRU-VS.

  Everyone failed, everyone failed to activate bwc and on top of that the excuse the copa investigators gave was “there was too much going on for me to remember to activate my bwc”.

  On top of that, one of the investigators kept shooting while the role player was shot, on the ground, with no weapon.

  It would be nice to see the media blast that all over the news. Want to give us shit about doing our jobs but you couldn’t last a day in our shoes.

These are the people (or folks) sitting in judgement of cops, while during their own training they're forgetting to turn on cameras and shooting unarmed subjects already on the ground.

It doesn't really matter since all outcomes are politically motivated nowadays. Evidence doesn't matter, only the visuals that can be manufactured and spun for the evening news. But it's good to know they're as incompetent at their "training" as they are at their "investigating."