My Tactical and HRT training was from the 90s, geared towards prisons and vehicles and actual hardened targets like cells and buildings with ballistic glass or bars.
Even before Columbine we at the initial response level, in our setting, knew if inmates got time to barricade themselves in a control room with hostages you're gonna have a hard time getting to them. We also knew that if you did wait for non uniformed political appointees to show up they would phuck it up.
I commanded a Dart team, basically a small tactical unit to provide initial response. I told my officers in my unit and the unit we coverd if you get taken hostage and I was the commander responding I would be using slugs and buck to take out those windows then flooding it with gas asap. No matter what stay down.
This is because the first thing they do is cover the windows and then abuse the staff cause they cant be targeted. This happens every time and infact in the Lewis prison they, 2 inmates, did just that and raped a female officer literally 100s of times over days while janet Napolitano removed the prison tactical team and replaced it with DPS tactical unit. She did so cause they would obey her. They traded it like any normal situation and phucked it up.
Columbine in 99 only reinforced this. You gotta act before they kill more people. I say in a police situation in a rural area like this even allowing armed citizens to back the police up. They tazed cuffed and gassed parents trying to get to the gun fire.
Were find out kids bleed out. That infuriates me to no end. For god sakes drive your car thru the wall. Anything. Just do something
Phuck me to hell.
Even before Columbine we at the initial response level, in our setting, knew if inmates got time to barricade themselves in a control room with hostages you're gonna have a hard time getting to them. We also knew that if you did wait for non uniformed political appointees to show up they would phuck it up.
I commanded a Dart team, basically a small tactical unit to provide initial response. I told my officers in my unit and the unit we coverd if you get taken hostage and I was the commander responding I would be using slugs and buck to take out those windows then flooding it with gas asap. No matter what stay down.
This is because the first thing they do is cover the windows and then abuse the staff cause they cant be targeted. This happens every time and infact in the Lewis prison they, 2 inmates, did just that and raped a female officer literally 100s of times over days while janet Napolitano removed the prison tactical team and replaced it with DPS tactical unit. She did so cause they would obey her. They traded it like any normal situation and phucked it up.
Columbine in 99 only reinforced this. You gotta act before they kill more people. I say in a police situation in a rural area like this even allowing armed citizens to back the police up. They tazed cuffed and gassed parents trying to get to the gun fire.
Were find out kids bleed out. That infuriates me to no end. For god sakes drive your car thru the wall. Anything. Just do something
Phuck me to hell.
