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- From: smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <199211182058.AA08257@beach.csulb.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:13:03 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: apskato@vax1.mankato.msus.edu's message of 14 Nov 92 20:26:35 GMT
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- #I'm not an officer yet (looks like next year that will change) but I can tell
- #you want I have observed and have learned. If the suspect isn't following your
- #verbal commands, you just wait him out until you can get some help. Think
- #about it...what are your other options? Shoot him? He's not a immediate threat.
- #Are you going to try and wrestle him to the ground? Of course not. You've got
- #the gun, you are calling the shots and, generally, time will be on your side.
-
- #If help isn't on the way and you have no way of contacting help. Then you
- #should still wait him out. Essentially, "the ball is in his court". Keeping
- #trying the verbal commands.
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- Four years of watching San Diego and Hawaii PD says the samething. In the
- hypothetical the perp, while not cooperative, is also not a threat. Several
- cops I've been assigned with had a two line philosophy that tended to dicate
- their decisions:
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- Always go off shift, alive and well.
- Take 'em alive if at all possible.
-
- Listed here in order of importance.
-
- smittie
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