LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — The Las Cruces Police Department held a reality-based workshop for elected officials and news media reporters to participate in simulated scenarios of real-life calls-for-service a police officer may experience any given day.

The workshop was held Tuesday, Aug. 12.

“The goal, first and foremost, was to provide perspective -- giving them a taste of what it's like to actually make those decisions under stress. It's very easy for all of us to criticize other people or judge their performance when we're not in their shoes. It's much harder when you're actually in that scenario,” Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story said.

The “Real-to-Reel” workshop took participants through five different simulated scenarios where they could assess how they would handle diffe

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