pursuing robbery suspects

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Collateral Damage: A word used by those who have not been there or done that to make others think they have.

If you miss your intended target and your bullet strikes another person, guess what, you just shot a human being that you didn't intend to. I hope you have a real good attorney on retainer. That person your bullet struck, they are not "collateral damage" they are a living breathing human being with hopes, dreams, loves and even family.

Make no mistake, I will shoot to stop a threat to me and mine, either in the performance of my duties as an LEO on duty or as a member of society out walking around. I try to live by the truism that Clint Smith said, "Every bullet you fire has a lawyer attached to it." You would do well to keep that in mind.

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I have been robbed twice at work first time I was not armed as my state did not have concealed carry just gave them what they wanted and good riddance .
second time I was armed they fled from the scene criminals do not like armed citizens , I did not give chase police caught them next day they got life as habitual offenders no innocents hurt .
 
Any time a Police Officer chases or confronts a felon, there is a chance of colateral damage and some innocent person could get hurt. The only way to erase that chance would be for LEOS to allow them to escape and not confront them. Watch the show about police pursuits on TV and you will see what I mean. As I said before, the street is not always a friendly place and agressive action is often needed.
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So then Spade, you are a Leo?
 
Seems to me the subject of the thread is about the storekeeper's tactics. It's surely not supposed to be about a bunch of backing-and-forthing about machismo and personal training and skills...

Art
 
So then Spade, you are a Leo?
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I doubt it, LEO dont talk about policy and policy here is not to pursue from what I been told. Cousin works crash investigation, he was quoted in the World Herald the other day on an accident he was on. If Spade is LEo my cousin would know him.
 
rb4browns said:
People think that in the name of "resisting crime" anything and everything is ok to do and no matter what happens only the criminal is responsible for any and every decision made by every person involved. At the point in which someone chooses to escalate the situation beyond what is required to defend your life (or property in many cases), the culpability for someone getting hurt is shifted at least in part to the person who went overboard.
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That's an excellent note on which to end this thread, which has devolved from useful discussion into fairly empty bickering.

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