Baltimore police trainee is shot during training
OWINGS MILLS, Md. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has suspended some training academy staff after a campus police trainee was shot in the head by an instructor on Tuesday. That trainee is now fighting to survive.
CBS Baltimore affiliate WJZ reports that one of the officers at the training exercise put his service weapon back on before going to lunch. When he returned from lunch, he did not switch out his service weapon with the simulation training weapon that they are supposed to use.
The details of the shooting are unclear. Investigators have only said that the trainee was taking part in a city police training exercise when he was somehow shot in the head with live ammunition by a city police training instructor.
The news outraged Baltimore's mayor.
"There's no acceptable explanation why live rounds were used during a training exercise. I was so angry. I was almost speechless," said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
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- Time for a stand-down and review. Police training is less about the facility than what goes on inside. Are new officers treated with dignity and respect in an "adult learning" atmosphere? If not, you need to read my new book and how the training of police and their leadership can be improved. Take a look at "Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation's Police" (Amazon.com). And follow my blog at http://improvingpolice.wordpress.com. And remember: policing in a democracy is best accomplished by those who are carefully selected, well-trained and led, controlled in their use of force, honest, courteous to every person, and closely in touch with the communities they serve.
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- Unacceptable. Police training is less about the facility than what goes on inside. Are new officers treated with dignity and respect in an "adult learning" atmosphere? If not, you need to read my new book and how the training of police and their leadership can be improved. Take a look at "Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation's Police" (Amazon.com). And follow my blog at http://improvingpolice.wordpress.com. And remember: policing in a democracy is best accomplished by those who are carefully selected, well-trained and led, controlled in their use of force, honest, courteous to every person, and closely in touch with the communities they serve.
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- I had a friend who was an MP who told me that at his base the MP's couldn't have bullets in their guns because one practicing his quick draw shot himself in the leg.
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- You would not believe how many inadverant firearm discharges the police are guilty of every year.
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