Junior Year - Week Nine

This week we mostly worked out in the weight room for three days than we started with more take-downs and other ways of controlling people. We worked if someone was to grab you by the shirt or grab you how you can disrupt their chemical or thought process. The technique enables the arm from being brought up therefore they cannot hit the officer. The reason this works is because of where the officer is hitting the person. It is in a nerve around the spot were the shoulder and a little lower than the collar bone. Using this technique the officer than can move into a more complex take down in order to take complete control of the suspect. The reason the officer can think and react is because he or she doesn't focus on the arm that someone is grabbing the officer focuses on the arm that could potientally harm them. Than the opposite shoulder of the suspect is hit. That can force the suspect to turn his or her body allowing the officer to than get to the dead side or weapons off side.

We watched about the Dallas SWAT team which was actually very intresting. The Dallas SWAT team is all men, they are kind of older but not old men. It showed a couple different situations including bad ending ones. The first one was a drug bust which was sucessful on their part because they got the evidence and took people into custody. The other one was a not so successful one, the team had been shot at and the officers than had to take control. There was a negotiator who worked with the suspect that had locked himself in a hotel room and refused to come out. This ended with the suspect shooting himself in the head and later dying. That to me would be the hardest part of policing is watching someone die that you just spent four hours speaking to and calming down from the very upset state tha they were in. Also the movie had shown about the families of these officers on the SWAT team and it's hard on them as well as the officers putting their life on the line everyday, and that's not just SWAT that's all law enforcement officers. The families suffer from not seeing there children or wife or husband and the movie slowly depicted that.

For the past few weeks we have been going outside and looking at the decomposment of a chicken body in Forenics class. This is defnintly a very intresting thing to me because it's kind of what I want to do when I get older. I got to take samples of magets off of the decompsing chicken and take them back to lab. While we have been sort of talking about that and looking through the life stages of the magets we have also been looking at DNA and trying to isolate and identify which restriction enyzems will work with what. This is so intresting to me and I love learning about it.