Monday, December 22, 2014

Criticism Is a Given in Police Work

The other side of the story. Amusing anecdotes and so typical. Frequently when citizens call on the police to arrest a violent troublemaker they expect the police to do so decisively and without delay. Yet at the same time many of these same citizens seem to have no concept on what it takes to actually subdue and take into custody a violent, resisting offender. They seem to imagine that the police have some magic way of subduing people and thus are frequently shocked when the police use “force’ to take the suspect into custody. Even when the police use some method that doesn’t require “physical force”, such as a Taser, stun gun or pepper spray, they are still shocked. Isn’t that what they wanted, something that incapacitates people without laying hands (or nightsticks) on them, sort of like the Star Trek “phaser”? Go figure? Of course that gives one an indication of why criminals so frequently believe they will not meet any resistance from the people they victimize.
From the “Add It Up” column American Handgunner magazine, March/April 2013 Issue
-Assaults on cops in 2011: 54,774
- Percentage of the time suspects used only fists, hands or feet during attacks: 79.9%
- Law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2011: 72
- Assailants identified in the murders of those officers: 77
- Assailants with prior criminal records: 64
- Number of hot dogs in a package: 10
- Number of buns in a package: 8 (Go figure it?)
-Percentage of Handgunner readers planning on buying a revolver soon: 38%
Percentage of Handgunner readers who reload: 44%

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