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> Every force has access to them, and training is as much about de-escalation and negotiation as shooting. Or just plain non-shooting solutions to the problem
by rodgerd 10y ago
> Every force has access to them, and training is as much about de-escalation and negotiation as shooting.
Or just plain non-shooting solutions to the problem. When a person having some sort of psychotic break started smashing up a local games shop with a weapon, the local police made sure the staff were out, let the offender tire himself out breaking things, and then used pepper spray before arresting him.
I would be very surprised if the equivalent scenario in the US didn't involve shots being fired.
- kobeya 10y agoWho paid for the property damage incurred while they waited?
- PaulKeeble 10y agoIts definitely not acceptable in the UK to save more of a shops property by murdering someone, that is a sure fire route to jail for life for a police officer and rightly so. The answer is the insurance company. Property isn't worth more than a human life but I know in the USA they do have the premise of defending your property lethally, we don't have that in our culture we don't believe in capital punishment regardless of the crime. Shooting a man for property damage is a conviction and sentence to death by a police officer, that is not OK this isn't Judge Dread.
- kobeya 10y agoWhat instead of a trinket store it was the National Gallery and the perp was taking a knife to irreplaceable artwork? Point is at some point you MUST assign a dollar value to human life, and to pretend otherwise is to have inconsistent morals.
- rodgerd 10y agoThe owner's insurance, I imagine. Killing someone for the value of a few DVDs is the sort of thing we associate with crazy people, not the police.