Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bo again. If you know me, you're already laughing,

waiting for the story. If you don't know me, you need to know I used to train law enforcement.

One day I was given a class and I had a cop ask about hitting a suspect in the knee with a

baton saying that it was probably more effective.

I explained you know you've got legal tactical of medical liability.

The legal and medical liability on that is going to eat you alive. You don't want to do anything that could be permanently

disabling, like hit a joint, unless your life is truly in danger. And he says, well, we write the report. If you don't know what that phrase means,

it means that the cops can pretty much say whatever they want in the police report and it will be believed even if they

are lying.

It bothered me that he said it.

It bothered me more that I got a room full of cops and nobody said anything against it and in fact most

of them laughed. I never taught another class for law enforcement again. That was 12 years ago. In that time I have had a

number of officers ask me for training and they normally get pretty colorful

responses.

This is a little bit different.

A cop watched that police militarization video and he, I don't want to put his details out there he's

been a cop for more than five in less than ten years said he never heard the

phrase time distance and cover and I guess in the comment section I

talked about auditory exclusion he'd never heard of that either he googled it and

said that now he feels a little bad. Now what that means is that over the course of his

career he has treated someone more roughly than he should have simply because he did not

know. He ends his message by saying,

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