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In reply to the discussion: Most Back Ban on High-Capacity Clips [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Some officers never fire their weapons outside qualification. Police also have a predator/prey response driven by their mandate to apprehend people.
At the point that exchange took place, the shooter wasn't doing anything. They didn't necessarily have to shoot him at all. Non-LEO may not have shot him. Impossible to say for sure, that's why I asked for non-law enforcement examples. They have a different mandate for public safety, than joe or jane citizen. And a different legal standard for justifiably employing lethal force.
(NYPD stands next to LAPD as having the BY FAR most abysmal accuracy/hit ratio's in the nation. And this is including people like SPD, where a couple years ago, some kid stole a police car, and two cops saw each other driving, each thought the other was the kid, pulled over and started shooting at each other. 31 rounds discharged, no one hit a damn thing. I think it's safe to assume, NYPD has a training issue, and it is probably caused by budget cuts.)