Navy SEAL Reveals WHY Police Fail In Critical Situations 

Give the video a 👍🏼 if you agree. Comment below and let us know what you think police need more training in. For the full video with Navy SEAL, Andrew Sullivan click here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-21IDZ_Xf9HE.htmlsi=0ANLCo1gdUgbgt-w

My department did team tactics training every month and every firearms qualification which was twice a year. New chief comes in and cuts all of it and only makes us do a 4 hour pistol, rifle and shotgun qualification. You saw how fast those skills disappeared. Also the thing he said about evaluating departments active shooter training is something I would like to see a series on. We have ALERRT training and some of it doesn’t make sense at all.

He mentioned 1 week a year. Our dept is 1 week every two years. We are at the academy and our driving track over that one week, and we lightly touch on things. We’re expected to know this stuff. They say it comes down to lack of money in all big institutions. However the dept always finds money for the most ridiculous items. Great conversation, and 100 % agree.

Huge props to Boston PD! 100% agree with your night vision statement. Too many "gear queers" out there. And yes, basic fundamentals are a priority. You can't teach someone to have that drive and motivation to train and get better, it's innate. And you definitely can't depend on your police department to provide you with the proper training. Too much of "police" training has fallen into institutionalized inbreeding. I also believe that patrol is the most dangerous job in the department but it's viewed as a "entry level" position.

Been a LEO for 10 years. And I love this content. This hits home.

I took a ride along Friday and the 12 year veteran officer didn’t know what firearm he carried. Knew it was a Glock but couldn’t tell me the caliber. “Either a 40 or a 9”..

Look at the NAS Pensacola active shooter attack. The base military police who were closest and flooded the scene completely failed in their response, and the local Sheriffs Office who showed up afterwards wound up being the ones to handle business because they were better trained and prepared. The whole attack lasted 15 minutes according to reports, the Sheriffs ended it within two minutes of their arrival. Law enforcement certainly needs better training, but there’s a lot to be said for the stress inoculation street cops in busy cities get. There’s a lot of cops who can get after it even if their training and tactics aren’t the best, because they’re accustomed to real danger and stress.

Love the thought processes. As a non-LEO this kind of conversion is cool.

Just retired after 22 years in LE. I have 8 years of Executive Protection experience and I really enjoy your podcast. I couldn't agree more with you that training needs to be increased across the country for our law enforcement. Teach them and they will learn.

We were doing active shooter training long before other departments even thought of it. Funding over the years reduced our qualifications to twice a year. Fortunately we had LERs (converted to semi-auto 223s). We all agreed that in reality, the first cop on scene would go in and take out the shooter. Training during the Advanced Officer Training (AOT for California POST) was usually a lot of range time but not much tactics. Our duty schedule prohibited any SWAT like training. A former SWAT commander came to out shift for a short period and remarked he had no idea we were so busy on swings! Cops are not SEAL TEAM 6 nor should they ever be. I appreciate this fine man's perspective but our primary job is not SWAT or "Search and Destroy". (sorry I am quite senior in age). I do like you channel. Keep it up.

I was both military and civilian police. 6 years as a master at arms and 3 as a town cop. On active duty, I got to go to at least half a dozen active shooter training courses. Is that enough? Who can say? Thankfully, a real active shooter, never came to any of my duty stations, so I guess it’s a good thing that I never had to test my skills. Most of the training on active duty was decent at best. Some was fucking horrible. A bunch of NCIS guys came to train us while I was in GTMO. They were all a mix of fat civilians, fat chiefs, and fat CWOs who had no idea what the fuck they were doing. In the police department, most of the training I did was excellent. The officer survival course in the police academy was damn good training. I also did two ALERRT courses that were really good. We also did some in-house training which was just OK. It would be awesome if we could all do the excellent training multiple times a year, while doing away with the training that’s decent, just ok, and fucking horrible.

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Good stuff. Please keep spreading the word. There is currently an unreasonable expectation of the public right now when it comes to police training and performance. Exactly like he's saying. The public is expecting Navy SEAL performance because cities and police departments are saying their officers are "trained" in xyz tactics. "Trained" often means 8-16 hours per year. No way no how can anyone be proficient in anything only receiving practice/training once or twice a year. But at the same time staffing and money do not allow police officers to be away more from their patrol duties to attend more training to be proficient in tactics. Even SWAT officers (unless it's a full time team) barely get enough reps in to be proficient in high risk tactics.

Marine and retired cop, SWAT here. Transitioning from super structured Marines where constant physical fitness and training was the norm to police academy I noticed a massive difference. Once out of the academy there was almost no mandate to remain fit. We also saw people hired who had little to no athletic abilities and hiring was based on education and "diversity". Police work is a hands on life and death job but is treated like a company hiring accountants or sales. Much of this is based on laws and cultural "pushes" and no amount of training will make a 4'10" woman or an obese man able to handle a George Floyd when he decides to run, fight.

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To get the average street cop the TIME to train to a proficiency such as is discussed here, departments across America would need to be 2-3 times their current size to ensure minimum daily staffing levels are met while also providing cops the training reps while on duty AND giving them time off. We can discuss this sort of thing all day, but until the public funds LE to a level to facilitate this it’s a moot point frankly.

Do you offer training to individual officers? Getting my department to be on board will just not happen.

When you get in a OMG high stress life or death situation, your thinking brain locks up and you fall back on your training. If you haven't been trained sufficiently enough your no better than anyone else who engages the primitive instinct of fight or flight. Either choice will be instinctual and may not necessarily be the right one or executed properly. I have never been in combat but I have been in life threatening situations and its no joke when you get that adrenaline dump. You could apply this to driving, flying or any other potentially dangerous activity. I have great respect for people with little or no training who still come thru in these situations. I'm guessing its pretty rare.

Good information. Thank you

Props to BPD!

Operators Are Created to Deal with The Greatest Threats a Man Can Handle Beat Cops Are Not Operators But They Are Expected to Deal with the Same Threats

I would tend to agree with you as far as blowing money on high speed, low drag gear; however, my team equipment was funded by asset forfeiture monies when we had a Chief that actually used the funds for what they are legally allowed to buy and not on gaming that system. Correct me if I'm wrong, but asset forfeiture funds cannot be used to backfill manpower. So, if you have a collateral duty team, you wouldn't be able to use the funds to cover officers gone on training nor could those funds be used to send patrol officers or detectives to training. CA POST refunds are a joke these days.

So many things to train on that would improve policing in America. I'd like to see recurrent 4th Amendment training done by a civil rights lawyer. So many encounters where excessive force is used, or an encounter is escalated to the point where a department incurs liability just because a cop can't right "refused" for an ID when ID is not legally required. Training in safe takedown tactics. Too many people shot/tased/sprayed because officers cannot get a suspect into custody, even when the suspect is a petite female who doesn't know how to resist effectively. Training in de-escalation. I see two things: Either an encounter goes from 1-100 in 2 seconds and someone gets an unnecessary (and often unconstitutional) trip to jail, and when they get out, even if they don't have a successful suit against the department, they and hundreds of people who watch the video now distrust and hate the police. Option 2: Police allow ridiculously oppositional behavior from a suspect (You ain't taking me to jail! I want your supervisor!) to go on and on and on until everything "snaps". When it does snap, half the time the officers do something improper or unnecessary, and the other half of the time, they do everything by the book and the suspect cries like a baby (and "can't breathe" to boot). De-escalate whenever possible, and when it's not possible, take appropriate, reasonable, and decisive action. Training in dealing with the mentally ill. I understand that our society is structured to take them to jail when they commit crimes, but this just wastes police resources and only sets up the next offense, whether while still in custody or soon after release. Often, too much force is used to secure the mentally ill into custody (regardless of whether they're going to jail or a psychiatric facility). If EMTs are "baby paramedics", police need to be at least "baby EMTs". This stuff should be simple, natural, and easy, but there isn't enough recurring training to make it stick. We also need an attitude change...the primary function of police should be to protect and preserve human life when possible. Handcuffing an unconscious suspect and allowing him to bleed out before allowing EMTs/Paramedics on-scene for treatment is contrary to their mission. And speaking of attitude change, the biggest one of all. Police are only heroes if they are willing to risk themselves for the greater good of the general public. Force protection is an important part of their mission, but when it gets to the point where the police risk the health and safety of the general public for the greater good of the police, they are no longer heroes. If this comment is false, consider this. Has anyone in this country proposed defunding EMS? Why defund the police but not defund EMS? How about Fire and Rescue? Do people say the same kinds of nasty stuff about Fire and Rescue that they say about police? Why not?

At times, I agree. Bad tactics are a leading cause, but I also see it first hand, police officers in the field who are afraid to make a decision because they are in fear of losing their job. Admin only second guessed the officer’s decision making ability and turning their backs on them to save their own jobs.

NVG's are a nice to have.....definetly not a need to have.....

Police departments can't even get to full staffing now. Bringing in more money to hire more cops so that there is more coverage to allow for more training is not possible in current times.

The issue is knowledge and funding. The average cop makes less than a 2nd Class petty officer. If you factor in all the special Pay of a USN EOD tech and reenlistment pay nowhere near as much. As a vet/cop the knowledge just isn’t there. Yes there is money to be made with federal and large state organizations. But there is little affordable training for small PD’s and Sheriff’s depts. I can attest if someone w/ a JSOC background /ODA could start a business that started a training company that specialized in affordable weapons and tactics training for small LEO’s it would help. From my experience (two veteran) house hold and current LEO I’m on the hook for ammo/weapons/gear my city can only afford so much. Not only is it hard to schedule training at small departments it’s really unaffordable spits up to the individual to train on their own. And as a father of 5 a dollar can only be stretched so far.

The problem is the SWAT team is suppose handle these kinds of situations. That is what they train for and exist for. Just SWAT can’t be everywhere soon enough.

This guy is hitting it on the head. He has to tiptoe around cops because they get pissed when you tell them they have bad training. Stop buying them toys and train the shit out of them, starting with the Constitution and the Graham factors.

One of the funniest contradictions I see from the public is, they want police to be at the level of a navy seal, but don’t police to be too militaristic.

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Hey there, any way I can private message you? I live in your area and would love to pick your brain. I’m scheduled to take my entry exam next month and wanted to ask you some questions.

Pie in the sky stuff here

Sometimes

If a police officer admits he must get angry to build motivation at an active shooter event, he picked the wrong career choice from the get go. I wonder if my comment here will magically disappear. Like the last one.

At what point do we stop blaming the department or overall law enforcement community for these failures and start blaming the individual for not going out and getting/ doing training on their own?

Conventional military army units need to stop using HRT tactics. They fixed it then went back to the same stuff OIF dudes warned me about.

I don't know what the 40 hours they're talking about. The LAPD Academy is 6 months long.

Having all that tech or tactical gear means nothing if you can't do basic fundamentals.

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How about just hire people with experience

Because they get no training

This is proof that Mr. Sullivan knows nothing of the realities of present day law enforcement. Place a seal/s under the same constraints as a civilian cop- the severe restraints on using force, myriad levels of prosecutorial reviews when any force is used, the constant threat of criminal prosecution, de-policing and de-funding realities- and some seal/s would hesitate to use force too. I'm not a cop, but Sullivan might as well have compared an apple to a space ship.

So if the cops did that for cops, then they could do it for pesky citizens couldn’t they??