By David Klinger
What is it prefer to have the felony sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and sometimes startling booklet solutions this, and lots of different questions about the oft-times violent international inhabited via our nation's law enforcement officials. Written by way of a cop-turned collage professor who interviewed ratings of officials who've shot humans during their tasks, Into the Kill region offers firsthand bills of the position that lethal strength performs in American police paintings. This brilliantly written ebook tells how beginner officials are informed to contemplate and use the ability they've got over existence and demise, explains how police officers reside with the impressive accountability that comes from the barrels in their weapons, stories how officials frequently carry their hearth after they truly may have shot, provides hair-raising bills of what it truly is prefer to be fascinated about shoot-outs, and info how taking pictures a person impacts officials who pull the set off. From academy education to post-shooting reactions, this publication tells the compelling tale of the function that severe violence performs within the lives of America's law enforcement officials.
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I realized that protecting my family is the same thing that a cop does. He doesn’t just protect himself, he’s protecting the citizens. So I felt that I could do it. Q I first got interested in law enforcement during my junior year in high school when I was called into the counseling office. At first, I thought I was in some kind of trouble, but when I got to the office, the coun selor asked me what I was going to do when I got out of high school. I hadn’t given it any thought. I knew my parents wanted me to go to college, but as far as career choice I had no idea.
Whether it is an individual who is threatening the life of the officer, or a third party, or a violent felon who is trying to escape, police officers are trained that they are permitted to shoot only so long as the citizen they take under fire continues to present an imminent threat or attempts to flee. Once the threat has passed or the felon halts, officers must stop shooting. ” Basic Training 35 This misapprehension likely comes from the fact that in being trained to shoot to stop officers are taught that the primary aim point for their weapons is what police trainers call center mass—the center of a suspect’s torso—which reduces the likeli hood that their bullets will miss their mark.
The fact is that most Americans’ image of policing comes primarily from popular myths derived from media depictions of police work, which, as noted in the Introduction, provide at best shallow and at worst wildly inaccurate portrayals of the job. Before coming on the job, most police officers are not aware that shootings are a rare occurrence. Prior to being hired, most officers are just ordinary folk, whose impres sions of police work are shaped by the same media forces that frame those of any other member of the general public.
