3. The Onion Field incident also caused a major shift in law enforcement training and doctrine. This one was where two officers were abducted; one was executed in an onion field; I believe the other one escaped.
This, the Onion Field, affects more officers and I'll add civilian self defense then all the others combined.
Yes it involved the two officers you mentioned, both were captured, one was killed the other escaped.
BUT that's not the theme of the subject. The Officers gave up their guns, one escaped but because the gave up their guns the second was killed, the first was haunted the rest of his life.
LE changed their tactics, stressing NEVER EVER GIVE UP YOUR GUN, and just because someone has the drop on you doesn't mean you are at an disavantage. You can still respond and you can still win.
Most departments started training session where we drew on a subject who had his gun pointed at you, we found it doesn't take much to pull it off, (this was covered in a subject I started a few weeks ago, "drawing on a bandit who has the drop on you".
We also got into a heavy training program of "take a ways" or ripping the firearm from an individual who has the drop on you.
Anyway, the chances of the massive gun battles are quite un common in real life, the "one on one" situation of the Onion field are much more common.
In reality cops spend more time on traffic stops, disturbances, field interviews, etc, then in multi bandit gun fights at banks.
I'd say the same for Civilian SD, its home invasion, its convience store robberies, ATM rip off's, or car jacking situations not multi bandit gun fights.