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Section two will also cover what happens when an officer is accused of breaking the rules. There will also be a short section on how self-defense law differs for civilians, in case you are interested.

The third section, “Experience,” will describe how officers begin to see the world that they live in and how they feel about it.

It is artificial to separate training from experience, and there will be many places where I wish the human brain could read two things at once and blend and contrast them. There are some things taught in training (such as the difference between levels of force and levels of resistance) that often don’t make sense, even to officers, until they come in contact with the real world. There are other issues, such as ‘active shooter’ tactics, where the doctrine flies in the face of experience.

Somewhere in the fog between training and experience, the officer has to make a decision. Sometimes the decision will be made in a fraction of a second on partial information. Sometimes the decision will change the lives of everyone involved forever.