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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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?
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It's a good question but like most things, I don't think it's as difficult as you're making it. If cops have to make split second decisions it can't be that complex. But there is a world of difference between someone who you are pursuing for murder, someone who is armed with lethal weapons and someone who woke up in a drive thru and got the best of you.