Behind the Badge
OCSD invites leaders to experience force options training as politicians debate use-of-force bills
0For the state Assemblywoman, it was brand-new territory. “I’ve never touched a gun in my life,” said Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) as she walked into the Force Options Simulator Room in the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Tactical Training Center (TTC) in Orange. “Well,” Petrie-Norris added with a laugh, “except a Nerf gun.” Over the following 90 minutes, the lawmaker, whose 74th Assembly District encompasses Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Irvine, Laguna Woods, and Laguna Beach, would be put in the boots of a deputy forced to make split-second decisions on whether to use force in scenarios involving virtual reality…
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