we're seeing it more and more in private
citizen encounters and officer
encounters the ability to get that long
shot is critical to stopping a threat
hi everyone welcome to today's bonus
badge cam lesson here at active self
protection i'm your host john korea and
i'm your co-host mike willover today's
video comes to us from phoenix arizona
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phoenix pd has responded to this
location because of a 9-1-1 call from a
woman whose husband is having some kind
of a significant psychotic break and
then while she's on the phone with
emergency services her husband started
shooting through the bathroom door at
her and her daughter who had locked
themselves in the bathroom
and that was recorded on 9-1-1 reported
to responding officers then he went out
front
and was shooting wildly into the air and
into the neighborhood officers have
staged up about 130 yards from his house
to start issuing him commands let's
listen into the batch camps
he's waving it in
drop the air
drop the gun
he's walking
drop the
good i gotta get back
he pointed it at us
guns to his right
we have another version of this that's
going to zoom in and show us a little
bit better what the officer sees it's
still a long way away so let's listen in
he pointed it at us
thankfully the wife and the child were
uninjured in this one no other private
citizen was hurt no officer was hurt
that one shot from the patrol carbine at
what i ended up measuring at somewhere
between 110 and 115 yards proved to be
fatal that guy ended up not making it
and boy we got a couple important
lessons to think about today props for
that marksmanship for that officer if
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mike let's talk about first of all the
officer in the driver's side here who
has a pistol with a red dot optic on it
and i'm a pretty darn good pistol
shooter okay i work very hard on my
pistol skills i am a red dot shooter as
well well green but whatever and and 110
yard shot with a pistol is absolutely no
joke it's no it's not a gimme i mean
that's for sure as we were discussing
earlier john you know i used to
um once we're done qualifying and i was
a firearms instructor with my agency i
would put a six-inch
plate with yellow paint at about 75
yards away and with a glock 17 with iron
sights i would practice slow timed aimed
fire now i could do that as long as you
know i wasn't under stress as long as i
was on a square range with no threat of
being killed and as long as the the
little yellow plate wasn't moving so
yeah this is not an easy shot i think he
recognized that and this officer decided
you know what i need to skidaddle i'm
pretty sure he was aware there were
shotguns and patrol rifles coming so i
think i think it was a wise move in his
part to realize the limitations of that
pistol and decide to just get out and
that's exactly why i think every cop
should have a patrol carbine and i think
a shotgun is a very useful tool
obviously not at these kinds of ranges
but a patrol carby this is literally
what it is built for and i love that our
officer comes in here uses his patrol
cruiser as a rest so that he's got a
stable platform now i do know some
people who are going to expect me to
give him crap about the sling however
he's using a rest for the gun he's
actually got that gun supported so he
doesn't have to have the sling on in
that case in fact normally if you're
going to use a support like this and
have to get down behind the gun you're
probably unsling it so that you can move
to kind of a better position with that
but given the fact that he's probably
dialed up a little bit of magnification
so he can see an id better what the guy
is doing and then rested that gun you
got to still make your shot here but it
is not nearly as difficult to shot with
a carbine as it is with a pistol 100 and
i got to say
a lot of agencies my old agency for
regular agents that weren't on any kind
of specialty team or tactical team
we only ever shot out to 100 yards with
a carbine and we didn't have any kind of
magnifiers it was just um just a small
you know optic a red dot optic on ours
and i got to say if you're not
practicing beyond 100 yards if they're
not teaching you that and you can you
have the wherewithal and the financial
ability to do it go seek out a longer
range rifle class
and i think john you were you were
telling me before we started here that
that uh phoenix had an outstanding
carbine patrol raffle program and i
guess it's coming to an end which is
terrible news yeah and unfortunately you
know they had to end up because of
staffing issues folding it back into the
regular firearms training issue because
phoenix like every other agency in uh
america is struggling for money but this
officer was a product i believe of that
of that class or something like it yeah
i mean this goes to show you
you know in the olden days we would have
run up there and jumped out you know
yelling and screaming with our hair on
fire uh with guns out and this shows you
the progress that tactics tactics have
made in american law enforcement these
guys realize there's he's outside now
he's not inside actively shooting at his
family there's no reason to get up close
to him yet we may have to at some point
if his behavior changes but let's sit
back and assess and see what we can do
here
and you know they some people are going
to say well i mean he was that far away
no way he'd hit the cops cetera et
cetera look at any moment someone could
pop out of one of those houses or a
little kid could you know run across the
street and god knows what might have
happened then they had to do something
well and he's actively shooting right
now he's actively desk popping shooting
shots off into the neighborhood this guy
it's not just maybe somebody who could
be endangered everybody is endangered
right now sure and he's pointing the gun
at the cops i think one of the things
that a little bit of magnification is
really good for is you heard the officer
say he pointed it at us how could he see
that it's 115 yards away he's got a
little bit of magnification on his
carbine and that magnification is not
really to make the shot easier it's
really to identify what the problem is
and to be able to take the appropriate
steps given the problem and i think this
officer did exactly what he needed to do
with it got his patrol carbine in the
fight rested it correctly got enough
magnification dialed in that he could
identify the threat and had the
marksmanship skills to cover his ass