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C-dub wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:53 pm No glass/windows in my door. No windows next to my door. I don’t want bad guys being able to look inside my home and see what there is for them. Now I have to worry about what the good guys can see? Good grief!

Future version of the Ring Doorbell (all fiction, of course, but there may a marketing niche here):

We'll have an option for video and audio on both sides of the door. So you can directly address who's there without being the near the door at all. Plus, advanced AI capabilities will allow you to use a variety of avatars and voices so the person at the door will think he's talking live to whatever persona you choose to project.

Sketchy-looking guy at the door with face tattoos? Choose a visual avatar of retired SEAL commander Jocko Willink and the deep, gravelly speaking voice of Trace Adkins:

I read fast and thought Mike offered a very interesting analysis. Do we as yet have any sort of confirmation that the engagement distance was only 10 feet? Doesn't seem terribly improbable, but I can't quite visualize what apartment structure layouts look like. I guess it would have been farther with that final mag dump since that was done from the stairwell...and why would Deputy #2 evidently remain at the apartment level while Deputy #1 remains only one step down after 36 rounds have been fired with having received no return fire? IMHO, both deputies should have gone another step lower before that final magazine was shot. When they could still have a good view of the apartment, why not reduce their target area by another 30%+ by taking just one step?

But I liked Mike's mention of "Common Core Math" skills. I'm no J.J. Racaza or Rob Leatham, but even I think I could manage a 0.1 hit-rate at 10 feet under duress (actually 0.094 if we had two full (one in chamber) dumps of Glock 17s plus another 17-round mag dump for a total of 53 rounds). And one question noted is super important: where did the 48 rounds that missed end up?

To add a bit to the tactics conversation, a car alarm starts blaring before the first shots are fired. This most definitely caused an auditory recognition issue if someone in the apartment tried to call out to the officers, but perhaps even more alarming is: How often do armed burglars act alone in 2024? If it truly was a guns-out armed robbery threat, am I correct that, from the video, neither of the officers seemed to even look at their six to attempt to confirm that another perp or two had come up behind them?

That this bodycam footage was released barely one week after the incident speaks highly of transparency from the sheriff's office, but there's lot to digest in what unfolded in only a few seconds. In fact, a grand total of 41 seconds from first knock on the door until the last shot fired.