09-26-2016, 10:24 AM
(09-25-2016, 09:23 PM) GMDino Wrote:Police have a dangerous job. I don't think anyone disputes that. But they signed up for it, didn't they? If you don't want to put your life on the line every day...don't.
They didn't sign up to take unnecessary risks, that is where I get annoyed with the general public. When people say shoot them in the leg, tazer them, etc. the reality is many times that is not enough to stop someone who wants to do harm, and honestly they can't afford to risk it. I see police footage often for my job, and in that footage I have seen countless videos of people getting shot in places besides center mass and getting up and continuing to attack. I have seen tazers do nothing as people pull out the barbs and continue to approach. When an officer is in danger, they have no responsibility to put the assailant's safety over their own.
People can question shoot or don't shoot, but there are standards for when it is a shoot situation. If it is a shoot situation, and not by what the public considers "shoot or don't" but the SOP, then it is shoot to kill. This isn't the movies, cops can't be expected to shoot limbs and bad guys stay down. I know this is kind of off topic, but a lot of this gets muddied by things like "they didn't have to kill them". If they met the parameters to shoot, then how it was handled is really not a question.
