It escalated from there. Bosch called out commands for the men to turn and place their hands on the roof of their car. But the two men ignored him. Bosch registered tattoos, hang-low pants, and baseball hats worn backwards. He told them to calm down. But they didn’t, and then Bosch’s daughter chimed in.

“Calm down! Place your hands on the car. Do not—”

Simultaneously the two men went to their waistbands. Bosch drew his weapon too, and as soon as he saw the driver’s weapon hand coming up, he opened fire. He heard fire come from his daughter on his right as well.

Both men on the screen went down.

The lights came up.

“So,” said Holodnak from behind them. “What did we see?”

“They had guns,” Maddie said.

“Are you sure?” Holodnak asked.

“My guy did. I saw it.”

“Harry, what about you? What did you see?”

“I saw a gun,” Bosch said.

He looked over at his daughter and nodded.

“Okay,” Holodnak said. “Let’s back it up.”

He then ran the scenario over in slow motion. Sure enough, both men had reached for guns and were raising them to fire when Bosch and his daughter had fired first. Hits on the screen were marked with red Xs and the misses were black. Maddie had hit the passenger with three shots in the torso, no misses. Bosch had hit the driver twice in the chest and missed high with the third shot because his target was already falling backward to the ground.

Holodnak said they had both done well.

“Remember, we are always at a disadvantage,” he said. “It takes a second and a half to recognize the weapon, another second and a half to assess and fire. Three seconds. That’s the advantage a shooter has on us. That is what we must work to overcome. Three seconds is too long. People die in three seconds.”

They next did a roll-up on a bank robbery in progress. As with the first exercise, they both opened fire and took down a man who emerged through the bank’s glass doors and took aim at the officers.

From there the scenarios grew more difficult. In one, there was a door knock and the resident opened the door angrily, gesturing with a black cell phone in his hand. Then there was a domestic dispute in which the arguing husband and wife both turned on the responding officers. Holodnak approved their handling of both situations without firing their weapons. He then put Madeline through a series of solo scenarios where she was responding to calls without a partner.

In the first exercise, she encountered a mentally deranged man with a knife and talked him into dropping the weapon. The second involved another domestic dispute, but in this case the male waved a knife at her from ten feet away, and she correctly opened fire.