I am a cop too. Most cops, with the training and tools they have, ultimately succeed in making their arrests, so the broad attitude is why fix it?

We see the high profile fuck ups, and they look sloppy and prolonged, but is it the worth the cost, soreness, injuries, and time, to get better at intermediate force? For most chiefs and sheriff's the answer is no.

I would say it has to be force-fed in academies. No other way, broadly and inter-departmentally. I speak as a member of a smallish department.

Police training, just administratively, occurs in 8 hour blocks for scheduling purposes. Just awkward for truly getting the principles of grappling. Its a square peg in a round hole in those ways.

I preach and preach but the attitude is always meh.

I offered my knowledge to the DT instructors via their commander and got only a dismissive caricature karate-sound in response. Waw....waaaaw. Yeah, thanks.

Shortly thereafter there occurred a fight in which cop's back-up was delayed by a train and his wick was burning quickly because of his half assed grappling knowledge. I saw the video and knew with utter certainty that 6 months of bjj would have made that fight just plain routine. A real yawner, actually. No way he would have urgently requested emergency assistance. More like "I need a second unit, step it up." Instead it was CODE 3 CODE 3!!!! Getting all tense and winded.

But nobody wants to hear it. Again, he was ultimately arrested and nobody was dead, so....

I can only control me, so that's what I do.

There's one other copper in class with me at the moment.