Should police be required to shoot to wound suspects who threatening their lives?

Goshin · Jun 5, 2010

TurtleDude said:
Given the guy was an MP in the Nam and then spent 10 years as a patrol officer and SWAT member and then a couple decades of the combined county wide SWAT team's head (our county has lots of villages and small cities that cannot afford each to have a SWAT TEAM so each community would provide one officer who would serve in a joint SWAT TEAM) I suspect he knows that. I also (given I spent years defending police officers and various agency LEOs in lawsuits) know that police work involves far more than shooting.
.

Are you talking about B. L. ? Last name starts with an F?

Caine · Jun 6, 2010

TurtleDude said:
Good points-

POlice chiefs tend to be the pet monkeys of the politicians they answer too

I had the Cincy Chief of POlice make the mistake of arguing guns with me. I tore him up so badly on a local TV station that the mayor of the city chewed his ass out the next day. He claimed they needed an assault weapon ban (remember cities can only pass misdemeanor ordinances) because they caught a "drug dealer" with a loaded tech 9 (32 round magazine-makes it a machine gun under Ohio law) and they couldn't arrest him.

So I pointed out all the laws they could have used to arrest the mope.

You know as well as I do that most big city police chiefs are politicians and bureaucrats more than they are cops

and nothing psses me off more than one of those clowns trying to use his status to con the press into thinking they know more about guns than people like me or worse, claiming only cops ought to be allowed to have 17 shot glocks etc

Ahh, I understand where you are coming from now. In the previous one liner I couldn't quite figure it out.
But now with the explanation, I totally agree.

And yes, I completely agree that far too often Police Chiefs are wayy more politician than they are police officer.
For that matter, anyone usually above the rank of Sergeant in a police department is. The rest of them rarely go out to a scene and do anything other than be present for cameras or to act like they are in charge of an investigation.
Once you pass a certain rank within a police organization, you become more "administrator" than "policeman".

TurtleDude · Jun 6, 2010

Goshin said:
Are you talking about B. L. ? Last name starts with an F?

No, its the guy who runs the most prestigious firearms training academy in Ohio

Goshin · Jun 6, 2010

TurtleDude said:
No, its the guy who runs the most prestigious firearms training academy in Ohio

K thx NM.

10char

Should police be required to shoot to wound suspects who threatening their lives?