Searching a house without a warrant is routinely done- I’m looking at you, Tom Barnaby!
Bullets don’t go through couches either. You can hide behind one and the combination of foam and fabric will keep you safe.
Point taken, but I suspect that sticking your head out in a gunfight isn’t a good idea in real life, either.
Same goes for flimsy wooden tables in bars or restaurants. Guaranteed bullet-proof, all you need to do is flip them over and duck behind.
Actually I should have clarified, I read somewhere that that’s the case in real life, not cop shows. That a bullet doesn’t deflect off a wall at the angle it struck as you would expect but rather that it travels along the flat surface instead.
Hhhhmmmm possibly I’ve been misinformed.
It was a while ago, as you will be able to tell from the quote, but one of my cop buddies was hit in the chest/body armor by a .45. He said it was like “getting hit by Catfish Hunters best fast ball!”
Well, not only are the Wick films not Cop TV shows, but they are clearly fantasy in their own world.
They did this in Barney Miller, where each detective had to dress in drag to attract muggers.
And car doors. Which would stop birdshot or maybe a .22.
In defense of people cowering behind random objects, it won’t stop a bullet, but it might infinitesimally interfere with the shooter’s aim. The benefit is tiny, but in a crisis, you try for anything you can get.
Unless it’s your last day on the job the bad guys will miss with every shot.
So I had an active shooter training at my job and the cop said it’s way better to run like hell. True? Literally the only thing I remember from that training.
Well, I remember that and the class full of engineers faring better at surviving Virginia Tech than their peers. They were the only ones to build a barricade.
The engineers I know would argue about how to build the best barricade, citing this or that manual, what their professor in college said once, and what would “definitely get them fired from their current job!”
Yeah, we watched a video from a former cop who basically said the same thing. Is it true?
This is how you dodge bullets.
The factual bit is that IRL you do not get a HS physics-textbook rigid collision. Depending on the materials involved the projectile will deform/fragment and the surface will spall and you can’t predict which way will all that stuff be flying, some of it will be at a shallow angle.
Best place to be when there’s a shooting is somewhere else.
On a more shortened version from other trainings I’ve listened to, the order of preferred action is: Run, Hide, Fight, with “run” being the far and away preference if practical and “fight” being for when you’re otherwise as good as dead so why not take the chance.
More like this:
Yes, that rings a bell! I work in a secure facility with an elevated chance of gun violence (DV shelter) so I guess this is stuff we need to know. Not pleasant to contemplate, though. 
It makes sense to run. People can’t aim for shit so the further away you are the less chance they’ll hit you.
Not in so many words, but that’s basically what the ex-cop in the video I saw said.
The FBI has a video showing Run, Hide, Fight.
Got nothin’ else, 'cept I love Remo Williams (way underrated), and Police Squad was the best.
Ah I see, thanks!