You know this...how?
Cop pea shooters? yes & no.Only a fool gets in a fire fight with a long gun when all you have are "girls's guns".But also training was sorta/kinda to blame.
Letting them go would be "fuck public safety".Killing them ASAP was the right move. Numbers didn't do them in,rather correct shot placement by sufficient caliber did. And in a related but "topic for another day",if Daryl Gates was still the Chief then,things wouldn't have un-folded like they did.
there was a time where PD's never had to advertise they were hiring.There was always a stack of applications on file.Not anymore.In the early 80's if you asked a cop with 10-15 years on the force if he would "do it again"-3/4's of them would say NO. This is when LE really started swirling the bowl. Minorities would get hired with a test score of 80 where as white males would have to score 95 or better to get on.LE was forced to hire "what ever came down the road".ANd now we are paying the price.
A friend of mine is a instructor at the local academy.He told me one day that they came into work on a Monday to a voice mail from a cadet parents asking them to "not be so hard on her".She ended up "recycling" FOUR TIMES!!!Yes that's right.they don't wash people out anymore.They "recycle them".We are completely FUCKED.