Law Enforcement “Requested” “no hesitation” targets which include children + pregnant women
DHS supplier responds to outrage over “no hesitation” targets which include children
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2013
Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a provider of shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security, has admitted that targets depicting pregnant women were “requested” by law enforcement agencies.
As you can hear in the YouTube clip above, Blaine Cooper enquired about the company’s “no hesitation” targets, which also feature children, elderly gun owners and mothers in playgrounds, and was told that the target showing a pregnant woman was a “requested law enforcement target for training.”
The representative refused to answer why police would be interested in training to shoot pregnant women, but went on to explain, “unfortunately our world is made up of people, pregnant or otherwise, that are gun owners not for the right reasons,” adding that the targets were to “train police officers”.
The woman refused to give her name, accusing Cooper of being “angry.” “Could you understand why I’m upset if the government is trying to make targets to kill citizens – I don’t feel that’s right,” he responded.
Cooper also makes reference to the DHS’ purchase of 2 billion bullets, “enough rounds to kill every citizen of the United States five times over.”
The representative also claims that the targets could be used for “don’t shoot” training, which is somewhat dubious given that they are called “no hesitation” targets and every single one of them is described as a “threat” target in the product description.
The shooting targets, intended to “help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time,” include “pregnant woman threat,” “older man with shotgun,” “older man in home with shotgun,” “older woman with gun,” “young school aged girl,” “young mother on playground,” and “little boy with real gun.”
Our story yesterday about the targets caused outrage, crashing Law Enforcement Targets, Inc.’s website and leading the company to release a statement on Facebook inviting comment and criticism about the products.
LET Inc brags on its website that it is a full service provider of training targets for the DHS, the Justice Department and thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country. The company has has racked up $5.5 million worth of contracts with the federal government, with almost $2 million dollars coming from Homeland Security.
Another customer who called the company claims he was told that the targets were, “strictly for Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.”
Asked by Mike Riggs at Reason about the targets, the company responded, “The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served.”
The targets are still available for sale on the company’s website via this link (screenshot here).
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 5:54 am
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Permalink Reply by truth on
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Contracts were for “training aids” and “paperboard”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2013The company behind controversial shooting targets that include images of children, pregnant women and elderly gun owners received almost $2 million dollars in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security.
Minnesota-based Law Enforcement Training Inc., which brags of its close relationship with the DHS and thousands of law enforcement agencies, has stoked outrage after producing shooting targets which feature “non traditional” threats amidst banal environments such as a pregnant woman in a nursery, a mother in a school playground and a little boy.
The company reacted to the furore by asserting the products helped override “hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition,” and to “break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc.”
Following concerns that the issue could be linked with Homeland Security’s purchase of around 2 billion bullets over the last year, which many fear is linked to preparations for domestic disorder, it has now emerged that Law Enforcement Training Inc. has racked up contracts worth almost $2 million dollars with the DHS over the last three years.
The vast majority of those contracts were for “training aids” and “paperboard,” according to the USASpending.gov website, which lists numerous different contracts each in the region of $150,000 and $180,000 dollars stretching back to early 2010 and running through to July 2012.
While it is not known whether the DHS purchased the “no hesitation” targets, a company representative admitted to a customer that law enforcement agencies had “requested” at least one of the images which depicted a pregnant woman as a “threat”.
A customer who called Law Enforcement Inc. yesterday told Infowars that the company informed him the targets were, “strictly for Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.”
The story has prompted widespread condemnation on the Internet, with Law Enforcement Inc. being slammed by Facebook users after it issued a statement.
Retired City of Houston police officer T.F. Stern reacted to the issue by remarking, “There’s something wrong, seriously wrong here. If we start to desensitize law enforcement officers, have them disregard humanity, to feel nothing’s wrong in shooting a pregnant lady or an old man with a shotgun inside his own home…then what kind of society have we become? How will police officers react after they no longer believe they are part of the society which they have been charged with policing, when they have become used to shooting pregnant ladies and old men?”
View all the “no hesitation” targets, which are still available on the company’s website, below.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
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i can see the photo "Shoot" now... they grab some old guy thrust a AK in his hands and say, "Now look threatening"
this is a travesty, and pretty much a smoking gun w/ on what these illegal pricks intentions are, I think somebody needs to print up some targets w/ some of our favorite assclown characters on 'em as well.
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Edward Calcutt on
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Lets say it like it is.
If I were her and a cop was waiting for her/my reaction, I would wait for the flash and squese the trigger out of shock as the cops bullet was ripping through me or my baby and pray the the shot went straight through his forhead.
Thats why it learned to shoot last year. and I'm not going to tell you what we used as targets for target practice. That damn company might start selling photos of Cop and Amry guys.
This is me again, in case you did not get a good look before i squeesed the triger.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher on
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Well; I'm sure that many people are more aware now, of the several abuses of the so-called "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS" can be, and please be equally aware - there is a very big difference between 'them' and the 'peace officer' who has sworn or affirmed to an Oath - Yes; we should all have a better idea now, and a clearer picture too, of what 'their' SERVICE & PROTECTION will get you.
Just a couple of reminders:
http://12160.info/video/chp-brutalizes-hog-ties-pregnant-woman-mov
http://12160.info/video/man-tased-by-bored-utah-cop-and-gets-40-000
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Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women an...
What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting an (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The "No More Hesitation" series from Law Enforcement Targets Inc. offers exactly that. For less than 99 cents per target, police can shoot at real-life images "designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training."
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Permalink Reply by Ria on
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Fast forward to human decimation. I can already see the US government bringing home all that they subjected people in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. with!
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Has anyone in these pictures been recognized (considering the pictures used are of real gun owners)?
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Permalink Reply by sagpig on
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ok... well, they haven't made ugly girl target aids, maybe i'm safe? LOL i know i'm not...safe!
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Permalink Reply by Pat Newton on
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Makes one wonder, yes?
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Permalink Reply by apeman2502 on
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Perhaps if law enforcement used stand up targets featuring the images of Janet Napolitano's parents, we could get to the source of Janet Napolitano's psychosis. Never has such a mean, vulgar, false personality held a cabinet post.
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