Before the next bullet kills:

[stevie_d_64]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=698653

Police want to get tougher with handling of non-fatal shootings
By JOHN DIEDRICH
jdiedrich@journalsentinel.com

Posted: Dec. 19, 2007

In an effort to reduce overall gun violence and homicides, the Milwaukee Police Department is looking for ways to beef up its investigations of non-fatal shootings, a commander said Wednesday.

By treating non-fatal shootings more like homicides, police hope to prevent killings and send a message to the community that any gun violence will be treated very seriously by the department, said Capt. David Zibolski, head of the Homicide Division.

"What we have to do is find a way to get the resources into shootings, and I think we can get there," he said. "It is definitely on the drawing board."

The department has long boasted a high rate of solving homicides - roughly eight out of 10 - compared with other departments, but the clearance rate for shootings when the victim survives is typically far lower. The department hasn't provided its shooting clearance rate, but studies at two other large urban departments showed only 30% of shootings get solved.

A lack of cooperation from victims, along with the sheer number of non-fatal shootings, makes it hard to clear many of them, police officials have said in the past.

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What if the “next bullet� must kill in order to protect innocent life, but it doesn’t???

The headline is pejorative for another important reason, bullets don’t kill, they only travel along their ballistic trajectory...

The entire legal and moral issue of a bullet is the circumstances under which it was fired: "is it an attempt to murder, or an
attempt to use deadly force to protect the innocent???"

Just some random thought I had concerning this issue...

[anygunanywhere]

Maybe some of them just needed killin' and the shooter just didn't get the job done.

Anygun

[TEX]

In a way, it makes since. If a person was willing to shoot someone at all, they are probably likely to do such again under similar circumstances. So, if they can find the shooter, even if it wasn't a fatality and get him/her behind bars, it makes since that it would reduce the rate of shooting and gun shot homicides. Excluding of course righteous self defense shootings.

Something that has always puzzled me, even as a child, was why someone who attempted to murder another got of with less punishment just because they were a bad shot or unskilled. If the person was truly trying to end the other person's life illegally, why not the same punishment you would get if successful.

I guess, and it makes since, that a death warrants a more urgent or determined investigation vs. an injury where the person survives.

Happy Holidays - Don't Forget the Reason for the Season

TEX

[dukalmighty]

I just hope they don't start prosecuting if looks could kill cases,you know the look ,the one that says I would kilt you but i don't think i would like prison as much a i hate you