TheFederalistWeasel
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What if, from the LEO point of view.
We see threads, which place the Average Joe in what if, situations so now lets look at one from the patrol officers POV and see how you would react.
Based on actual circumstances which happened to me recently, some details have been changed incase… well you get the idea.
It’s late night, around 0030 hrs. You are policing a small town not far from a large town located on a major artery. You are the only officer on duty inside the city; county has two Deputies on duty, somewhere. You are located in a parking lot where you have been sitting in your car out front of a fast-food business while they close up for the night, then waiting making sure the workers get in their cars and on their ways safely (a routine which I do nightly in my town). You are about 25 feet from the front of the store so the building lights are providing you with enough light to do paperwork w/o illuminating the inside of your car blind your outside view. The window is down because it is humid outside and you can hear the surrounding noises.
Now everyone has gone and you are sitting in the car, sipping coffee doing your reports for the evening in anticipation of ending shift soon. A vehicle, a small truck with tinted windows slows, pulls into the parking lot, turns around in front of you, then backs into a parking space to your left hand side about 5 spaces from you, lights go off and the truck is placed into park. Truck is now facing in the same direction as your patrol car. You see movement inside the truck; the driver’s door opens, out comes a rather large male dressed in dark pants, a button up shirt but wearing a ball cap. He walks around the front of the truck immediately you spot on his belt a full size auto loader with double mag pouch; in this case it was a Glock in a plastic holster and a plastic mag pouch.
You see no badge in belt or anywhere else for that matter.
He is approaching you from around the front of his truck, weak hand in his pocket. Weapon hand pointed down at a normal angle when you walk with hands out of pockets.
Passenger door then opens, out pops another male, small wiry almost skinny-framed guy dressed in a similar fashion. He too is armed with a full size Glock with double mag pouch, but this fella has on his belt what appears to be a cell phone and another item, which appears to be a duty size pepper, spray container.
No badge either.
You have about 1.5 to 3.0 seconds to react, what would you do.
I will chime in later with my reaction and what really happened with this story.
We see threads, which place the Average Joe in what if, situations so now lets look at one from the patrol officers POV and see how you would react.
Based on actual circumstances which happened to me recently, some details have been changed incase… well you get the idea.
It’s late night, around 0030 hrs. You are policing a small town not far from a large town located on a major artery. You are the only officer on duty inside the city; county has two Deputies on duty, somewhere. You are located in a parking lot where you have been sitting in your car out front of a fast-food business while they close up for the night, then waiting making sure the workers get in their cars and on their ways safely (a routine which I do nightly in my town). You are about 25 feet from the front of the store so the building lights are providing you with enough light to do paperwork w/o illuminating the inside of your car blind your outside view. The window is down because it is humid outside and you can hear the surrounding noises.
Now everyone has gone and you are sitting in the car, sipping coffee doing your reports for the evening in anticipation of ending shift soon. A vehicle, a small truck with tinted windows slows, pulls into the parking lot, turns around in front of you, then backs into a parking space to your left hand side about 5 spaces from you, lights go off and the truck is placed into park. Truck is now facing in the same direction as your patrol car. You see movement inside the truck; the driver’s door opens, out comes a rather large male dressed in dark pants, a button up shirt but wearing a ball cap. He walks around the front of the truck immediately you spot on his belt a full size auto loader with double mag pouch; in this case it was a Glock in a plastic holster and a plastic mag pouch.
You see no badge in belt or anywhere else for that matter.
He is approaching you from around the front of his truck, weak hand in his pocket. Weapon hand pointed down at a normal angle when you walk with hands out of pockets.
Passenger door then opens, out pops another male, small wiry almost skinny-framed guy dressed in a similar fashion. He too is armed with a full size Glock with double mag pouch, but this fella has on his belt what appears to be a cell phone and another item, which appears to be a duty size pepper, spray container.
No badge either.
You have about 1.5 to 3.0 seconds to react, what would you do.
I will chime in later with my reaction and what really happened with this story.
