its a face saving argument. If they can say they were trained to do this and were just following oders than it becomes legitimate. If they can claim that they had no training on handling prisoners and shouldn't have been there . . . well its been used before as a legal argument.
One of the way the police involved in Rodney King got away was that they claimed they were following the training that LAPD has for situations like that.
Sometimes in our country we believe that training somewhow supersedes common sense. Or else common sense can't exist without training.
What we have to consider is whether this is just the way we ntend to handle things unofficially and whether that it s bad thing.
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Originally posted by RACooper
However what I find most appalling (or sad) is the continuing noise made about the lack of training or intsruction... for the whole Brigade not to understand the basics of what was required of them is pathetic. I have participated in numerous exercises with both the Canadian and American armed forces, as both a "prisoner" and a guard; these were excercises held almost annually, and served to drive home the standards and practices required of soldiers (reservist and regulars).
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