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Originally Posted by uboat509
Are you saying that the first option an officer should use when confronted with what he believes is deadly force is less than lethal techniques?
Perhaps my terminology is off. What I meant by unplanned encounter in this case is that the officers met the victim at a time and place not of their choosing and without the equipment that they stated that they were waiting on and without a plan in place as to how they were going to proceed with subduing someone that apparently as far as they knew was possibly high on something, agitated and armed.
That is what he stated and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I will take it at face value.
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Re: first option.....It would be my first choice. A shot to other than the head will possibly to incapacitate a person sooner or later. I imagine many here with a purple heart can attest to that. A taser incapacitates faster.
Re: Planned encounter: I can't think of what the other equipment might be, but then on "my force", of the early 80' we had fewer options. Beanbags and rubber bullets come to mind and both of those are slower
Re: Absence of evidence.... That was was my attempt at LEO/FOG humor. Didn't work .