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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Police discontinue chases all the time when the risk is too great and that includes risk to the person being chased. You don't shoot someone in order to save someone if that person is not threatening anyone.
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Well, this presupposes that the policy is that you should only shoot a suspect "in order to save someone". Okay. What does that mean? They have to be actively pointing a gun at someone? They have to have a gun, such that they might use it on someone? Or you have to have reason to believe they're the sort of person who, if you let them get away, is liable to hurt someone? If it's the last one, what level of reason to believe do you need, and how bad a guy do they need to be? That seems to leave a lot of judgment to the officer.
Or maybe it's none of the above. If so, what is the standard?