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Yes, but it's not just about money.Bart wrote:They could fund the ammo budgets with a small percentage of the money saved in prison costs.Excaliber wrote:If they fired every time the law allowed, departments would have to increase their ammo budgets significantly.
Most LEO's I know use the standard of "When there is no other reasonable way to protect innocent life."casingpoint wrote:Precisely what criminologist David Klinger describes in his book Into The Kill Zone:Many will argue that morally, KILLING someone over a wallet, or microwave is unconscionable
"Many officers choose standards for pulling the trigger that are more restrictive than those set forth in law and administrative directives."
From "Into The Kill Zone"--A cops eye view of deadly force. All about cops who shot and those that didn't, cops who got shot, training to shoot, and the personal aftermath of it all.