(08-06-2020, 05:04 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(08-06-2020, 12:17 PM)copycat Wrote: I just cannot imagine any police department assigning two rookies to the same patrol.  You are just begging for trouble.

It happens all the time. It's my understanding that one was actively with his training officer, and the other one had already been trained and was within his first few weeks alone. They may not have been patrolling the same area, either. They could have responded to a request for assistance and come from another area whereby they never would have been working together otherwise.

Correct me if I am wrong but in reading the transcript they were assigned together and were first on the scene.  In my profession we so not turn the keys over to someone fresh out of school.  Call me naïve' but I really cannot see where two guys fresh out of academy would not be under some type of supervision the first week on the job.

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