Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
That's right. It's difficult to come up with an answer, even after reading all the reports and watching the YT videos and discussing it ad nauseam on internet forums. Now imagine how hard it is when you're the one behind the trigger making the split second decision without the benefit of internet experts to guide you. Sometimes bad decisions are made. Most of the time, thank God, these men and women make the correct decision under the most difficult of circumstances...again without the guidance of internet experts.

What just irritates me to no end is this rarely happens with any other profession. A doctor screws up and someone dies non-medical "experts" don't get on the internet and spout off about how the procedure that killed the patient should've been performed. They don't say the doctor wasn't using the right tactic or procedure for what s/he was doing. A pilot screws up and crashes an airplane and people die non-pilot "experts" don't get on internet forums and say "he should've used a little right rudder and adjusted the thrust" or some shit. But when a cop screws up, or even appears to screw up from the perspective of a 10 second video clip, everybody's suddenly a fucking expert on police tactics, procedures and training. And I'd venture to say that most of the "internet experts" are complete non-hackers who wouldn't last a shift in a busy city.

Yeah. It pushes my buttons. Always has, always will.
I'm right there with you. I've worked several jobs/professions in my life, but never one where people who have ZERO experience constantly try to tell me and my partners how to "better do our jobs" until I got into the Law Enforcement game. It not only grinds my gears, it really disappoints me that thanks to the internet everyone is an expert on LE procedure.