Police Shooting: Why Do LEOs Fire So Many Shots?

By Donald J. Mihalek

A police shooting is more of an exact science than most think.

Two men stand and face each other. One with an intent to do good the other with the intent to do harm. Within seconds, “Pop, pop, pop” — the sound of gunfire erupts and in the blink of an eye, it’s all over. Gun casings litter the ground and the smell of gunpowder wafts through the air. Inevitably, one or both of the men are lying on the ground wounded, if not worse.

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In San Francisco, the news runs with “65 shots in 15 seconds.” In New York City, it’s “28 shots fired in two incidents,” including one of them being the knife-wielding suspect by the Empire State Building with bystanders hit by “stray bullets.”

As the crime scene tape unfolds and the investigation begins, so does the questioning and “Monday morning quarterbacking.” The public, politicians and media all ask why? Why did you have to shoot so many bullets?

Thankfully, whether or not people want to believe them, these days science answers many of those questions. The science shows that these answers lie in …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life