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Great News! Cops To Think Before They Shoot At You

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:28 pm
by baffled
http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/12/newsp ... ange-count
Great news from the Orlando Sentinel: Cops in Orange County, Florida, will be trained to think before firing 130 rounds in the parking lot of an apartment complex...
Fun fact from Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell's 2010 reporting on the Breedlove case: All nine deputies involved in the killing of Breedlove had fired on suspects before.

Re: Great News! Cops To Think Before They Shoot At You

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:10 pm
by jgmack
That would infer that cops are capable of thinking. Wasn't Shafely a cop?

Re: Great News! Cops To Think Before They Shoot At You

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:29 pm
by baffled
EZ was. HVLN too from what I hear. Dan Martin seems to know a bit about the po po, but I don't know if he was one or not.

The new guy taking his lumps in his intro is an LEO I think.

Re: Great News! Cops To Think Before They Shoot At You

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:04 pm
by Turdacious
Depending on whether or not there are changes in ROE and how long term training changes (if it does)-- this could be much ado about nothing.

Re: Great News! Cops To Think Before They Shoot At You

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:20 pm
by baffled
Turdacious wrote:Depending on whether or not there are changes in ROE and how long term training changes (if it does)-- this could be much ado about nothing.
Sure, but the real point was that now they're being trained to think before shooting, as if they weren't trained to think before shooting prior to this event?