Just like Perry is going to have to show me he has command of the play book, can read a defense and audible out of a bad play before I'll agree with anyone he should be crowned starter; I'd also like to see what some of you would do in that profession, dealing with drunk beligernt idiots, street corner lawyers, and hardened, repeat criminal offenders, 24-7. All the time worried about who'se going to pull out a gun and make your wife a widow and your kids fatherless.
Everybody seems to be an expert on threat assesment and how to show restraint. Particularly when you can take your time to think about it and provide your opinion from a keyboard. **** most of this board can't go a half dozen posts without breaking bad on someone.
**** happens really quick in real time - officers are trained to react - but like anybody else, sometimes their self preservation gene kicks in. And no I'm not a cop. But I've been a yacht captain boarded an awful lot at night back in the wild 80s and 90s off South Florida, USCG and DEA boarding crews came aboard hot: Riot shotguns, M-16s, sidearms drawn. You learn to react in a certain way in a hurry, and older captains warned me about that - get it over with, if you have a problem, do it with the USCG Group afterwards. I even had a guy chip the paint coming alongside after a $50,000 paint job that boos hadn;t even seen yet. I just politly asked him to note it in the boarding report.