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Originally Posted by Zeke
Well, this entire diatribe merely highlights a lack of training in the particular field as well as a well codified misunderstanding of how firearms (not nearly as lethal as you might believe), safety (personal and professional), risk (measurement) and legal culpability (exposure) exist in the Real World.
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Firearms not lethal? Grappling and cuffing isn't lethal either, but firearms are lethal more often, and quicker in any case. If you are into overwhelming force, as you say, what else compares?
Safety, personal? I guess you mean if you shoot people all the time, they may take to trying to shoot you more often, or otherwise fight back with extreme intent? So, do you intend to have a bargain with the populace instead? You won't try to actually kill them if they don't resist too much? Might work, but if you're going to try it, you need different rhetoric and slogans. 'Nuke'em speak' is right out.
Safety, professional? That the legacy legal entanglements I mentioned, isn't it?
risk measurement? Don't know what you just mean here.
legal culpability (exposure)? Yes, mentioned. But it's interesting that you cast this as a hazard to the officer, as opposed to recognizing a duty to follow the law.
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Originally Posted by Zeke
Security-think is a thing, a thing I favour in warfare, but the fact that officers bother to arrest stands as inherent evidence that it is not utilized as an in-house remedy to crime.
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You favor it in police operations as well. There is nothing in your list of objections that indicates you see 'subjects' as having any rights you are bound to respect. You don't see an arrestee (who, keep in mind, has in general not been found guilty of anything) as a citizen whose welfare deserves any consideration. You don't even acknowledge that an officer's legal duty is a factor, except for the trouble he can get into for breaching it. Basically, you just suggest self-interested reasons an officer might not want to blaze away.
So if he can get away with it, there is no reason for the cop not to blaze away, in your view.