Officer shows 'great restraint' not shooting charging suspect

Great job by the officer.

 

"Officer surprisingly does not kill suspect"

Next on News at 9.

Like something from an Onion article.

 

Next time he could end up getting killed. What happens when he over powers him and takes his weapon?

I would have popped a few rounds into his legs as he was charging me personally.

 

Maybe we should hire cops who actually embrace the "courage" aspect of their profession.

Maybe we should hire cops that pass a high standard for physical fitness also.

 

If you're scared go to church and don't be a cop...

Too many punks with badges and this officer makes a bunch of these dudes look bad. I wonder how this real police officer would have handled the situation if the guy had a screwdriver or took off running.

 

Then we wouldn't have enough. The only solution is Robocops imo.

 

Great thread -- officer showed amazing restraint.

 

The problem is that there are fewer candidates who pass that standard and are willing to enter the law enforcement profession than there are cops needed. You can ask for that higher standard, but then you'd have to make the law enforcement job more attractive (in terms of pay, prestige, or whatever it is that makes a job attractive).

I'm sure the Houston Rockets would prefer having better players than Joey Dorsey and Pablo Prigioni, too, but those guys were all they could afford and were willing to pay for for these roster spots under the circumstances.

 

Saving for future reference of dumbest posts

 

This officer deserves all the credit in the world for restraint and it's good that the officer didn't end up getting himself hurt in the process. It's just a good story.

 

I'm usually all for restraint, but in this case was it really wise? He must have had a very good reason to believe the man was bluffing, because otherwise he was fully within his rights to shoot the man charging at him. And if he has family dependents, one could argue he also had a moral obligation to do so. Thank goodness he got through it safely.

 

It was certainly a gamble, one that could have cost the officer his life, but it paid off this time which makes it a good story.

 

And....he went home to his family.

 

Go ahead and paste it into your sig.

Coming from you, I'll assume you have no refutation. Anyone can label any post 'dumb'. A refutation explaining why would be worthy of a civil debate.

Que you responding with "Your post is too dumb for me to take the time to explain why."*

 

I'm all for raising law enforcement funding as long as the extra funding goes towards training and increased salaries that result in a higher selectivity rather than armored MRAPs.

 

I thought it was obvious we want smarter cops not more courageous. More courageous means more dead cops. Saying our cops should be more courageous is nothing. This is yet another situation that would not have happened if cops don't have guns.


Only psychos get added to my sig, so you should be safe unless you wig out.

 

The 'courage' I imply is valuing the sanctity of life even if that entails a slight increase of risk to their own.

 

Wow that's a hell of a call by the officer. He sounded like he was trained great and that gave him the confidence to not pull the trigger.

Amazing work

 

How many cops do you think we actually need... Police officers usually show up after the fact and write reports, there's only a small percentage of the time when they actually prevent crime from happening. Like in this situation... The only person they prevented from getting killed was the murderer.

They could replace many of these patrol cops with cameras and have better trained patrol and response teams. A good percentage of the police force is just a revenue generating system that the government unleashes on the citizens anyway... Glorified donut eating meter maids.