Do All Police Train Like This?

Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 8:15:14 am PDT

Do LAPD recruits also train by leaping through flaming hoops while instructors with AK47s fire real bullets at the ground, or does the Palestinian concept of police training seem a little ... weird?

Here we can see that the “Pointless Leap” exercise is even stranger than we thought. In addition to being shot at, the would-be “graduate” of the training has to be able to leap through the ring o’ fire while someone else either drags the hoop stand, or rocks it back and forth.

Aieee! I can’t tell what’s going on the foreground of this one, unless the Palestinian ninja on the left has just cast one of those cool knife-edged throwing star thingies. It could also be that pest with the AK47 again. Aieee!