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<blockquote data-quote="scooby0048" data-source="post: 4833328" data-attributes="member: 50693">You&#039;re not going to like this but...yeah she was following training protocols (from my view). She was also following training for use of her primary or strong side. This is how it works...an officer draws his / her weapon thousands of times during their career be it for training or to direct towards a threat. The mere action of drawing and aiming, dry and live firing, and re-holstering is what is called muscle memory. Even when I went to Scottsdale to become a trainer for Taser International, the focus was on deploying the Taser properly in conjunction with the primary. The Taser gets deployed very very rarely and thus the muscle memory effect is not nearly as honed as it is with the primary. I think the onus falls on the agency to instill that muscle memory by getting the officers trained to draw weak side and cross draw (less lethal side) as much as they do for the primary side.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="scooby0048, post: 4833328, member: 50693"] You're not going to like this but...yeah she was following training protocols (from my view). She was also following training for use of her primary or strong side. This is how it works...an officer draws his / her weapon thousands of times during their career be it for training or to direct towards a threat. The mere action of drawing and aiming, dry and live firing, and re-holstering is what is called muscle memory. Even when I went to Scottsdale to become a trainer for Taser International, the focus was on deploying the Taser properly in conjunction with the primary. The Taser gets deployed very very rarely and thus the muscle memory effect is not nearly as honed as it is with the primary. I think the onus falls on the agency to instill that muscle memory by getting the officers trained to draw weak side and cross draw (less lethal side) as much as they do for the primary side. [/QUOTE]

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