1 hour ago, Hastings said:

That's what I want to do as well. I'm interested in foreign policing and the US probably maintains one of the most interestingly organized police in the world. I only recently engaged in conversations with actual LEOs and realised how little I actually knew about the topic. 

 

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In case you're interested here are some videos for you -- all official videos released by the MIA. They all show the drive-by technique, and I'm yet to find a good shooting footage. Russian police doesn't have bodycams and usually all other recordings are seized as evidence.

00:58 you can clearly see sparkles from bullet hits. 

 

Here on 07:37 you can see the officer in the far left car shooting tires of the white van, and as shown later, quite successfully. 

 

This is not Russia, it either Georgia or Armenia, I'm not sure. On 03:17 you can see the officer shooting the tires (All post-USSR countries generally have the same police training standards except those that are in the EU now)

 

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I have a lot of questions about these videos but I just realized how far off topic we have strayed from the original post. I'll have to send you a message or start another topic. Great videos though! (and I think I have seen the one with the truck and trailer before)

Its a dangerous job for sure, but that's also why a lot of cops choose to do it. If it was just handing out parking tickets, I doubt we'd see so many people signing up to do it. We should be thankful that they chose that line of work, but that doesn't mean we should have blood lust for every idiot that decides to throw a punch at them. Justice was served in this case, I couldn't ask for a better outcome.

On 31.05.2016 at 1:11 AM, l3ubba said:

I have a lot of questions about these videos but I just realized how far off topic we have strayed from the original post. I'll have to send you a message or start another topic. Great videos though! (and I think I have seen the one with the truck and trailer before)

Well, if there's anything you would like to know I would be pleased to do my best to answer your questions.

Yes, the topic swayed way off the original post (i wonder if that phrase even makes sense for english speakers lol). But remains interesting nevertheless I think.

21 hours ago, Riley24 said:

Its a dangerous job for sure, but that's also why a lot of cops choose to do it. If it was just handing out parking tickets, I doubt we'd see so many people signing up to do it. We should be thankful that they chose that line of work, but that doesn't mean we should have blood lust for every idiot that decides to throw a punch at them. Justice was served in this case, I couldn't ask for a better outcome.

People take things way too personally now. Something I learned early on was to not take things so personally. I am on the shorter side (about 5'6"-5'7") and pretty much any time we rolled up to a call or came in contact with someone they would make some smart ass comment about my size. It was (and still is) annoying but I would not show any emotion when people said stuff to me because I knew that is what they wanted.

Sometimes it is hard to not let it get to you, some people are really good at getting under your skin but if you let everything both you, you will not last in law enforcement. And it is no different when someone is resisting, their resistance isn't a personal attack against you it is just part of the game.

34 minutes ago, l3ubba said:

People take things way too personally now. Something I learned early on was to not take things so personally. I am on the shorter side (about 5'6"-5'7") and pretty much any time we rolled up to a call or came in contact with someone they would make some smart ass comment about my size. It was (and still is) annoying but I would not show any emotion when people said stuff to me because I knew that is what they wanted.

Sometimes it is hard to not let it get to you, some people are really good at getting under your skin but if you let everything both you, you will not last in law enforcement. And it is no different when someone is resisting, their resistance isn't a personal attack against you it is just part of the game.

That's a really great attitude to have