{"id":1288,"date":"2012-04-17T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:49:32","slug":"video-games-can-aid-police-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Video Games Can Aid Police Training"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you wander around your house, punching out your finger-gun from the low ready, practicing room clearing?\u00a0 Sure you don’t; neither do I.\u00a0 And I’ve only been embarrassed about it a couple of times.\u00a0 I think many of us seek out opportunities to practice our skills whenever we can.<\/p>\n

First-Person Shooter video games take us on exciting missions in exotic locales.\u00a0 The danger is not real, but the format is much like a simulator for teaching search techniques.\u00a0 While not a scenario trainer like, say, a FATS machine, an FPS game can give you reps in considering tactical angles and problem solving.<\/p>\n

In the confines of a video game, you can practice slicing the pie, hallway movements, room\"\" entry, fields of fire, and threat identification.\u00a0 In some FPS’s you can dial down the number of adversaries to make it more like a building search, rather than a straight-up firefight.<\/p>\n

I have found that some of the older games like the Rainbow Six series have missions in single player mode that let you clear specific areas, such as the British SAS’s Hereford Kill House.\u00a0 This type of structure provides great practice for room clearing either by street officers or SWAT members.<\/p>\n

My SWAT team created two small plywood-walled Simunitions shoot houses for team use and use by department patrol officers.\u00a0 The issue is that you can’ t just practice in them whenever you want.\u00a0 Despite some movable walls, the wooden layouts are also limited.\u00a0 Neither are factors with digital interior constructs.<\/p>\n

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"SHOT Show sure got rough this year!"<\/p><\/div>\n

Other game series such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor, Delta Force, or Ghost Recon are outdoor movement laboratories.\u00a0 Though they are geared toward military doctrine, we have all seen how the lines have blurred between military and police when operating in hostile environments.\u00a0 The military has more broadly adopted MOUT-type training, and civilian police departments have added rifle skills to their daily diets.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army has adopted two dozen versions of video game simulations and spends between $10 and $20 million a year for this kind of technological training.\u00a0 Other military video trainers include battlefield tanks, combat airplanes, and submarine navigation.\u00a0 I would call those an electronic endorsement, of a sort.<\/p>\n

A word about video games and artificial intelligence:\u00a0 don’t get all wrapped up about your adversaries.\u00a0 Some game AI’s have enemies that will run endlessly at a wall or get stuck in a door.\u00a0 Other games have computerized foes that will whack you at four thousand yards with a Nambu pistol.\u00a0 That is not what is important.\u00a0 Have fun, play the game, but practice a few sound tactics in there.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not advocating that we all go out and spend a paycheck on video games (slaying a few Zombies can also be good training, right?).\u00a0 However, I will suggest that if you are a player of first-person shooters, dial them down a notch and use them as another way to think tactically in the “three dimensional” arena.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n

(Screenshots:\u00a0 UbiSoft Games)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you wander around your house, punching out your finger-gun from the low ready, practicing room clearing?\u00a0 Sure you don’t; neither do I.\u00a0 And I’ve only been embarrassed about it a couple of times.\u00a0 I think many of us seek out opportunities to practice our skills whenever we can. First-Person Shooter video games take us on exciting missions in exotic locales.\u00a0 The danger is not real, but the format is much like a simulator for teaching search techniques.\u00a0 While not a scenario trainer like, say, a FATS machine, an FPS game can give you reps in considering tactical angles and problem solving. In the confines of a video game, you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,48,227],"tags":[232,229,231,230,233,111,228],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shot-show","category-street","category-swat","category-tactics","tag-building-clearing","tag-building-search","tag-first-person-shooters","tag-fps","tag-police-tactics","tag-police-training","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-kM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}