This excellent book achieves this and it should be a 'must read' for all those involved with, or interested in, the profound issues of life and death that lie at the heart of Maurice Punch's analysis.
Waddington, University of Wolverhampton. It is essential reading for students, academics, police officers, policy makers, politicians and all those concerned about police use of deadly force. Maurice Punch has worked at universities in the UK, the US and the Netherlands - where he lives - and his research expertise is on policing and corporate crime. He has written several books including Zero tolerance policing The Policy Press, and Police corruption Willan, and published in many journals.
He is now an independent researcher and consultant. By Stephanie Kewley and Charlotte Barlow. Policy Press uses cookies on this website. Dunn told investigators he purposely shot Casimiro in the leg to save her life. She survived and is now in prison.
Courtesy of the Enoch Police Department. Two officers confronted a woman and a man in a parking lot in the rural town of Enoch, Utah. They had the couple cornered, backed up against a fence where some cows stood around on a compacted dirt lot. The woman, accused of breaking into cars, wore a camouflage jacket and a single orange glove. In that hand, she held a screwdriver. The man stood next to her, unarmed, with his hands to his sides.
He said he did it to save her life, and she survived. Just like the armed man did in But after this shooting, unlike the last, Dunn lost his job and the chance to be a police officer for four years. Between and , Utah police shot at people in separate confrontations. Police in LaGrange, Georgia, have instituted a shoot-to-incapacitate training program , based on policing practices in Europe, where departments deal with fewer guns and more edged and blunt weapons, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported in May.
The new policy went into effect in February and so far it is unclear if it is working, but the training has drawn the attention of the law enforcement community who are skeptical. But some say shooting not to kill may have its place. At every police academy former officer Randy Shrewsberry has attended, an officer-in-training brings up the question: Why not shoot someone in the leg?
So, the logic goes, if officers perceive an imminent threat, their best chance of eliminating that threat quickly is to shoot someone there. Then, he said, you have to consider a general principle all officers are taught: action is faster than reaction. If an officer misses, the threat he or she sought to eliminate remains — and the misplaced bullet could hit someone in the background. Dunn was eating lunch at home on June 28, , when dispatch radioed that someone was breaking into cars at the TA Express convenience store in Parowan.
Berg told dispatchers at a. Dunn arrived two minutes later. One down. We need EMS. Body camera footage shows Dunn walking to Berg from across the parking lot. Berg was near the truck door, talking to dispatchers on the radio. She turned around and took a few steps. Video shows Dunn with his pistol in one hand as he aimed his Taser at the woman, who paced slowly, with the other. He fired the Taser twice. Even when officers are trying to shoot center mass, they often miss.
Lewinski recalls a case he was involved in where an officer firing under high stress just 5 feet from an offender failed to hit him at all with the first 5 rounds and connected with the next four only because the suspect moved into his line of fire. Expecting that level of performance by police officers on an agency-wide basis is ludicrous.
There is no dependable correlation between wounding someone and making them stop. Also if you shoot them in the arm or leg and you destroy muscle tissue, shatter bone or destroy nerve function you have maimed that person for life. The experts we consulted agreed that advocates who push a shoot-to-wound agenda appear to understand little about human dynamics, ballistics, tactics, force legalities or the challenges officers face on the street. Chudwin has found that these critics of police practices can often be enlightened if they are invited to experience force decision-making scenarios on a firearms simulator.
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