Definitely good video showing the possibility of gun jamming but I personally would not count my life on it.
More importantly what was the officer thinking? Why was she struggling trying to fight force on force with a man easily three times her size and much stronger? Why didn't she disengage and use her gas, baton, tazer, gun? It looked absolutely pathetic seeing the officer hanging by the suspect's arms whilst on the ground? Where were her combat survival tactics?
I can identify four main reasons which will answer the above:
1) Too Limited and "politically correct" training given to officers to deal with conflict (I can only speak for UK and Italian police forces but an average of 4 hours per year refresher courses are given at best)
2) The laziness factor of many (but not all) police officers who believe that they can magically rise to the occasion without practice or refining/building the often limited skills imparted by conflict trainers (who themselves are often limited on what they can teach by senior officers)
3) The lowering of recruitment standards which I personally find despicable, laughable and worrying. Fitness and strength tests in particular have been lowered significantly and justified in order to fill female recruitment quotas. And no this is not a sexist remark. In fact I believe that if not enough female officers have been recruited through previous fitness tests this is due to poor recruitment marketing. I cannot believe that 99% of women are that unfit so as to cut the fitness standards by 50% to pass. That is, I find, extremely sexist.
4) The ever looming public/media pressure which has led many police and military forces across the world to adopt "pink marygold gloves" approach to operations.
Them more I discuss these issues, the more experience I gain in law enforecement, the more I think I should have been born 30 years prior. I am by no means an extremist but we are getting so politically correct it makes me feel sick. I was always, naiively I guess, of the view that security professionals be they soldiers, marines, police officers ect should be trained to the highest possible standards. In my view
they are the counterpart to criminals and terrorists. Why then do they have to be hindered by pathetic rules and substandard practical and realistic training/support just because of public perception and media when criminals and terrorists play by no rules and certainly pay no heed to training costs?
Ciao,
Ed