KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey reports some local reporters were shot at yesterday!
But it was a simulation put on by the Harris County sheriff’s department for local media, to help them understand the dangerous situations regularly handled by local law enforcement.
As Carey put it,
I have a new respect for law enforcement officers. We were given the chance to go through a simulated active crime scene where there was a crook in an office and we had to apprehend the suspect. It didn’t go well. Ted Oberg from KTRK served as my partner and when it was all over we were both dead.
Not two of our favorite reporters! Nooo!
Seriously, this is a good move by the sheriff’s department to invite reporters out for this simulation. I’ve long meant to go out on a ride-along with HPD just to get a closer look at what officers on the street are seeing, but this sort of exercise is good too, especially for people who do crime reporting on a regular basis.
