FBI report on offenders attacking police

Here's a really interesting report the FBI has prepared regarding interviews with offenders who shot or shot at police officers. It's got a lot of info in it some of us surely already know, and some that will and should surprise us.

Some of the not so surprising info is that they prefer handguns, and out of 50 offenders interviewed, 49 purchased their handguns illegally.

What surprised me was seeing that the offenders might just fight more effectively than the police. Regardless of what your firearm is, or it's statistics we might love to quote, I think this proves well that your mindset is what truly matters in a crisis.

You can find the whole article at:

http://www.forcesciencenews.com/home/detail.html?serial=62

Here are a few parts I clipped that stood out to me.

"Nearly 40% of the offenders had some type of formal firearms training, primarily from the military. More than 80% "regularly practiced with handguns, averaging 23 practice sessions a year," the study reports, usually in informal settings like trash dumps, rural woods, back yards and "street corners in known drug-trafficking areas."

"Overall, the offenders practiced more often than the officers they assaulted, and this "may have helped increase [their] marksmanship skills," the study says."

"Or as one of the offenders put it: "[W]e're not working with no marksmanship...We just putting it in your direction, you know...It doesn't matter...as long as it's gonna hit you...if it's up at your head or your chest, down at your legs, whatever...Once I squeze and you fall, then...if I want to execute you, then I could go from there."

"The offenders were of a different mind-set entirely. In fact, Davis said the study team "did not realize how cold blooded the younger generation of offender is. They have been exposed to killing after killing, they fully expect to get killed and they don't hesitate to shoot anybody, including a police officer."

Tons of good info here, especially for our law enforcement first responders.