NYC Cops furious at 'don't-kill' bill

[Thor]

There ya go......... she has admitted that she is totally CLUELESS about how police officers have to do their jobs.

[RobJohnson]

As long as they don't watch TV, listen to radio, get online, read newspapers or talk to other people, then it should be okay. lol.

That's my point. 

[soleil]

I think that is ridiculous. Shoot to stop. Whatever that means. It doesn't mean aim for the arm, that is for sure. You eliminate the danger. Plus isn't that what tasers are for?  Cops are in enough danger out there.

[ROCKURWORLD]

People actually elect boneheads like this to office???? I really hope a petition is going around to get her out of office ASAP.

[crockspot]

Why don't they just teach cops Matrix Drunken Boxing Fu? Then they can just run in at super high speed, and grab the gun out of the assailant's hand, and kick him in the nuts, in the blink of an eye.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I remember reading many years ago that one of the designers of the Sykes Fairbairn commando knife served as a police captain in the orient. One of his officers confronted a knife-wielding thief who was hopped up on narcotics. The officer emptied a M1911 into the perpetrator but the theif ultimately had to be pistol-whipped into submission. For those not readily up on their handgun know-how the .45 is generally a gun that will take grown men off their feet.

Research into the episode convinced Fairbairn that only a shot that hit the heart, brain, spinal column or femurs would be reasonably certain to subdue an opponent.

Now these would require very accurate shots--against moving targets--in the highest of all high stress situations.

Perhaps one *might* say if the officer was defending only him/herself they should attempt minimal force (I wouldn't but an "assumed risk" argument could be made at DU or other suitable asylum), but to ask a police force to take those chances when defending the citizenry?

Unconscionable.

[BlueStateSaint]

I remember reading many years ago that one of the designers of the Sykes Fairbairn commando knife served as a police captain in the orient. One of his officers confronted a knife-wielding thief who was hopped up on narcotics. The officer emptied a M1911 into the perpetrator but the theif ultimately had to be pistol-whipped into submission. For those not readily up on their handgun know-how the .45 is generally a gun that will take grown men off their feet.

Research into the episode convinced Fairbairn that only a shot that hit the heart, brain, spinal column or femurs would be reasonably certain to subdue an opponent.

Now these would require very accurate shots--against moving targets--in the highest of all high stress situations.

Perhaps one *might* say if the officer was defending only him/herself they should attempt minimal force (I wouldn't but an "assumed risk" argument could be made at DU or other suitable asylum), but to ask a police force to take those chances when defending the citizenry?

Unconscionable.

Real simple--use a shotgun.

I doubt that this one is going anywhere because of public outcry.