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Yeah, I'm totally cool with the police using pictures me of me as target practice. I think it's great.
Not sure with Miami Beach PD but many cops purchase rounds and targets themselves. Wager this started with the motivating factor being a cheap alternative to buying targets. The target was a printout from a normal printer (8.5 X 11). Likely just morphed into something stupid. Claiming this is some "desensitizing" conspiracy is just....stupid.
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Training for head shots is a waste of taxpayer dollars and could provide impetus for unsafe shots.
Center mass.
How would it be any different if there were Bullseye's in the little boxes instead of mug shots? I think people are just looking for things to get outraged over....And let's not leave out the whole reason for this faux outrage seems to be to further the current hate rhetoric against Law Enforcement....This should be the poster for invented issues.
It should be a silhouette.
I'm not here to discuss other aspects of the event
merely that training other than silhouette center mass is a waste of taxpayer dollars
targets such as in the article may provide impetus to unsafe (for the officer) shots.
Did the department save money? No. It wasted money on ineffective and even risk-creating training.
Target practice does not create risk, it reduces it by making the shooter more proficient....
Mostly in bad taste. I guess the PC crowd could be satisfied, if a
number of crazed white crack heads were included in the spread.
Target practice with improper procedure does create risks.
I couldn't argue against this point even if I wanted to.
Yeah, I'm totally cool with the police using pictures me of me as target practice. I think it's great.
Not necessarily training for head shots but for accuracy. Squares on a range target are common.
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Notice the delineation of accuracy in the boxes. No such thing exists for the head shots.
Oh good, you're back....Explain what in the "proper procedure" creating risk was done in using this target?
There was no attempt to gauge accuracy, as noted above...
it was a head shot exercise
If you cannot see the inherent problems, that's your shortcoming and I see no need to explain it to those capable of understanding.
So, tell us why you really support it.
Notice the delineation of accuracy in the boxes. No such thing exists for the head shots.
Clearly you don't shoot much...Do you think that placing a cluster within a 1 or 2" box from say 50 or 75 meters is an accurate shot?
No, it wasn't. While the optics of using mug shots was embarrassing for the department in terms of the optics of insensitivity toward the people involved, the exercise was to place the grouping of shots within the box, NOT practicing for a head shot...That is a silly narrative for those like you to paint the police as some kind of murderous cowboys...
Oh, I understand alright...And, I'd put my firearms experience up against yours any day of the week...So, to premise that the use of mug shots was anything other than insensitivity, which toward criminals, I could really care less about, is somehow an exercise to do anything else other than place a grouping of shots in a 2" square from 50 meters is just plain stupid.
I see, so since I am arguing that is really nothing to see here, I must support it eh? Is that how your mind works? That explains much...You might try actually having a conversation rather than trying so hard to fit others into your own false mischaracterizations....Just a little advice.
If a shooter doesn't care about accuracy there is no need for targets.
True. So, why use black peoples' heads as targets...
tl;dr
Translation: I like the idea of practicing head shots on black people.
No, the people in the boxes have nothing to do with it...But, I understand that is your go to when you've been shown to be wrong.
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