That the person with the gun may be a citizen who was defending his or her life, or a plainclothes law enforcement officer or agent engaged in protecting their own and/or others’ lives does not seem to enter into McCarthy’s training instructions... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner post notes the threat of being shot ought to result in an appropriate response from targets who are able to prevent it.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Chicago's ‘shoot first’ training endangers citizens and non-uniformed officers
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From the article, quoting Superintendent McCarthy, as he complains about what he believes is excessive coverage of violence in Chicago:
Last Saturday we had no shootings in the city; zero… but nobody will report that. It was consciously disregarded.
If you think the city is getting an unfairly bad rap for violence, then you should probably refrain from insisting that it's "news" when the city goes one day without someone being shot. Just a thought
Don't thank me, Garry--happy to help.
It's a shame you blew an opportunity to reference in context the killing of LaTanya Haggerty, who was holding a cell phone, not a handgun. Chicago later settled for $18 million paid to the family.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20585554/chicago-to-settle-mentally-ill-womans-lawsuit-for-22m
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