a minor little question about police shooting

[DonCoquixote]

Aamadu Diallo: shot 41 times.
Michael Brown: shot 12 times.

To ask a question that may seem trivial, but may be pertinent.

How the Hell do the cops not be judged as INCOMPETENT when they have to fire more than 6 shots to defend their lives against unarmed people?

Every shot fired is a shot that can hit an innocent bystander, or at least damage property.
We spend money traning these people with miltary grade weapons.

ANY YET, they feel so threatned by unarmed people that they feel compelled to empty more than a standard six shooter can hold?

A firing has six to 12 shooters. When she was shot, Mata Hari got hit by four, but only one hit her in a vital organ, the heart. She was killed instantly.

So these police are so scared they have to fire more bullets than it takes an average Firing Squad to execute someone with? In city streets where all it takes is one stray bullet to kill?

Go ahead, defend these cops, all it does is show that some people are so weak they hide behind their ammo clips, and that goes double for the same folks that keep defending heavy ammo clips everytime some jackass shoots up a schoolyard!

[X_Digger]

1. A firing squad's target doesn't shoot back.

Being animals with a lizard hind-brain, when we perceive a life-or-death situation, our adrenal glands (among others) go 'WHEEEEEEE!' and dump a cocktail of hormones into our bloodstream.

What does this do to you? Regardless of how well you train, your body goes into fight or flight. Your heart rate and blood pressure skyrockets. Your major muscle groups tighten. Your digestive system slows to a crawl. Veins constrict, pooling blood into your torso away from your extremities. Fine motor control goes out the window, as does peripheral vision and much of your hearing. Your effective visual perception narrows down until you're effectively looking through a paper towel tube. The more you try to steady your aim, the more you shake. Your sense of the passage of time is severely compromised (some report this as feeling like time slows, others lose whole chunks of time.)

Studies have shown that even in war, humans have a tendency to not want to kill another person. They'll shoot over their enemies' heads, or at the ground in front of them.. a one hit per twenty round fired ratio is considered average.

Psychology + physiology.

[DonCoquixote]

4. okill see this and raise you

yes, it is combat stress, but these are people who are TRAINED to temper their instincts. No,I am not saying that they should all be cowboy bulleye makers, although, in both Tray and Brown, the shooters claimed the person was at close range. That is the magic word, CLOSE RANGE. One shot at close range can at the very least hinder someone's ability to charge at someone. Hell, a taster, pepper spray, bean bags do that. If thes etwo were st CLOSE RANGE, why did the officers shoot more bullets? Hell, if you wanted to shoot a leg or a kneecap, shoot that!

[X_Digger]

5. You can't train physiology away.

Bad asses who are completely cool under fire are generally a hollywood myth. As are those who 'shoot to wound'.

Here in the real world? Physiology.

[safeinOhio]

6. Close range with an unarmed person…...

isn't that what mace and tasers were made for..Oh that's right they are made for people already handcuffed.

[safeinOhio]

7. Unarmed teens don't fire back.

[glinda]

2. And don't forget....he stole cigars. Big offense. Not.

[Recursion]

3. Because only about 5% of people shot die from the gunshot (nt)

[XemaSab]

8. 12 bullets were fired

but only 6 actually made contact and only 2 were fatal/critically wounding.