It is critical that, for officer safety and community safety, officers keep sharp on their shooting skills.

The purpose was twofold — first for citizen safety, and also to give them suspect information.

I sometimes think there's not a real serious attempt to make our contractors comply with the same safety standards that everybody else has to out here.

Really what came out of this was almost an affirmation of issues that the department and really neighborhood leaders knew were issues.

And that range was ideal for qualifying shoots, range shoots and for special operations training.

What the neighbors are telling us is they're dealing with subjects who are intoxicated or hanging around the area.