Has the world gone mad????

[NightWing]

Originally posted by Baddog
I don't envy the police of any country when they are faced with a difficult and terrible decision such as this. It seems they the police, are damned what ever they do but their job is to protect life and property so sadly sometimes things like this will happen

I have to agree with you there. I have alot of family members that are retired or active duty police. I also work with alot of retired officers, and for the most part they all say the same thing. The high level of stress causes most of the miss judgements. Their emotions start to take control and they start going on pure adrinalin. They have also told me that officers in both LA and San Diego are starting to go through new training on how to cope with the stress and how to keep their cool under high stress levels so things like this dont happen. Unfotunatly most police and sherrif departments either do not have or are unable to provide that type of training.

[atholon]

I saw the tank one, I personally could see better alternatives. For instanct they could stick a smoke or gas grenade in the tank and wait for him to come out and use a tazer on the dude.