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Originally Posted by Bucco

Why police shoot so many times to bring down a suspect - CNN

"The "textbook answer" is that officers fire until they've terminated a threat, according to Seth Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies policing.
Officers use deadly force on a suspect they perceive to be an imminent threat of death or bodily harm to the officers or others. In training, police are told to use force until that person no longer presents a threat, Stoughton said."

These threats to police officers, while posts on this forum might indicate to be new and original, have been going on for many years.....well, since any policing began.

We just have to learn not to create chaos, as we are pushed to do.

Protestors are just fine.....riots never ever have been considered anything but lawlessness.

Why posts on here need to jump on one side or another is well beyond me, because who in the world are you speaking to. Even the most energetic protestor you can find will be anti rioting. Why does there even exist a question as to why they exist......they are not always, but mostly from outside agitators yet we never criticize them.

Police need no defense.....someday, we have to discuss this rationally and without creating sides

That was a thoughtful post. Someday, maybe (?) in 15 years, we will have A.I. Robotic police for the beat and human inspectors / investigators. The robots will have NO fear of being themselves harmed so should be able to make good logical decisions in each criminal incident. Until then we are only left with failable humans. What we are working on now is trying to eliminate any systemic biases (as much as possible). That is the problem that we and the media and judges are trying to work out. I believe that because of so many people having cell phone cameras and sound that the problem has become PUSHED to the front of people's consciousness. So, society is grappling with it more today.