Not meaning to personally attack you or shoehorn myself in, but that stuff absolutely is LARPing. Which is fine, if it's just playing soldiers for fun, but something has gone monumentally wrong over there if armed police are being trained on handling and tactics by civilians with no real-life experience in any of it. That's genuinely shocking to hear. Why on Earth aren't they just being sent to do some cross-training with military units in CQB?
They’re not being trained by civilians per se, the instructors are former military and LE. It’s a private facility not an LE training facility. And yeah, that’s a great question as to why it isn’t mandatory to go train. I know the cops that I train with tell me their departments won’t subsidize their training at private facilities.
I will say, that there is some trained civilians that do go into LE training facilities that teach.
On a side, yeah, probably some larping in there but a perishable skill nonetheless As long as I can defend my family is what counts
