Has your police training assisted you in becoming a better fighter?

Question

To what affect? Has street experience, or training helped your fighting more?

Answer 1

Call fo back up.

Answer 2

Contrary to the belief of many `wannabees` fighting is one of the last things a LEO wants to do.  95% of our training is designed to help us do our jobs while avoiding a fight.  Yes, we are trained to do what we have to do, but fighting is more or less a last resort.  Any LEO that puts fighting before `preventing`fighting won`t be a LEO for long.  Our training is to help us use the least amount of force to get the job done.  I hope this answers your question.  Good luck!!

Answer 3

--- Even in departments that give extensive training in their own academy the recruits usually learn just enough to get themselves killed or pummeled in a fight if they don't have any previous fight experience.

--- In order for hand to hand experience to really take effect and do some real good you have to do it enough that it becomes embedded in your muscle memory.

--- The techniques they train you with are good as a basic form of training but they are often useless without practical usage experience. And, one of the most important things inexperienced kids need to learn is that there really is no pain in the actual fight and you simply have to forget about that and get the job done and survive while you are at it. The pain comes later.

--- I had very little experience at fighting when I became an officer at age 19 and I still remember worrying whether I would be able to handle the fights. Then I had my first of many cases where a suspect landed a sucker punch on me and it came to me that I didn't feel a thing until it was all over. The adrenaline rush covered the pain.

--- Though that revelation made things easier it also complicated things because then I had to train myself to control that adrenaline rush and use it to my benefit rather than letting it turn me into a berserker.

--- I started using the pressure points they had taught in my oh so extensive 32 hours of self defense training and I found that they really worked.

--- When I started in law enforcement it was 1974. I was still a student in college finishing up my police sciences degree and I was working part time for a police department of a bedroom community of about 8000. But it was bordered by another city of 65,000 on one side and 2 others of about 5000 on other sides and a third of about 25,000 about 2 miles away. It had 9 bars in it so it was a rocking town on weekends.

--- Their idea of training was to ride along with another officer for about 2 weeks at 3 or 4 shifts a week, usually Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Then after that I worked a 2 man car with another kid who started the day after I did. Two weeks later I was working shifts by myself.

--- Looking back now I can say I was a total innocent. I had moved to Wisconsin from a very large city but it had been a high income community and I went to a magnet school. I was in one fight my entire life up to that point.

--- I had no idea their existed people who worked all day long, soley to get out the employer's door and head for the tavern door and there remain drinking all night long. And repeating this 6 days a week, with the occasional bar fight thrown in.

--- My first year working there I was shot at twice, one round hit my door and was only stopped by the guard rail AMC started putting in driver's doors that year. I was in at least 8 car chases with stolen cars, and I can't count the number of bar brawls that involved 10 or more people. A normal friday night involved a bar brawl where I had to call for mutual support and we would end up with 4 different city police agency cars, the sheriff's department cars, the state patrol, DNR wardens and one night even a alcohol tax agent! And that really was not all that unusual in thoise days.

--- The first time I got beat up was by a 300 pound drunk driving woman who, when told she was busted for OWI replied, " No I ain't" and proceeded to pick me up and throw all 160lbs of me over the top of the car and into a snow bank. It took 5 officers to arrest her in the end.

--- No training technique in the world was going to work with her except a straight punch in the nose. Anyway, back then it was really a little slice of the wild west around here. And the only training they gave us was in the recruit school which was 8, 4 hour sessions.

--- I think that I learned a lot in the training but it was useless until I actually started learning how to use it in realistic applicatons and situations. I guess i would have to say it was 50/50

--- The greatest aid to officers, in my opinion, was the advent of Pepper Spray. We went through tear gas, which didn't work on everyone and took a minute to take effect on those it did work on.

--- We went through stun guns, that many people were not even effected by, these were the old ones. The new ones work better I am told.

--- We went through sap gloves, plastic nucks, big heavy batons (clubs), saps, black jacks, etc etc and they were just getting us bad ink from r****d cops who didn't when enough was enough and beat people sensless.

--- But when pepper spray came out it was like a minor miracle. It actually works. I would say the number of resisting cases around here went down by half when we got pepper spray. People learned fast that it was bad news and when the can came out they usually gave up. I loved it.

--- After 97 I can't talk about. I was rammed in a car chase and broke my neck so i had to retire. But I see they are carrying stun pistols here now so they must have gotten those puppies to actually work now too. So maybe some day we won't have to "fight" anymore to arrest someone.

--- Wouldn't that be a kick?

Answer 4

All police officers go through defensive tactics training. Also they are required to retrain once a year like they would with all fire arms they use as well as pepper spray and so on. It helps you learn to end fights as quickly as possible.