{"id":349894,"date":"2018-02-26T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/many-cops-cant-shoot-straight\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:13:08","slug":"many-cops-cant-shoot-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/many-cops-cant-shoot-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Cops Can\u2019t Shoot Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has happened again\u2014still? New York City Police, in stopping a dangerous criminal\u2014apparently legitimately\u2014have also shot up the surrounding citizenry. It\u2019s a problem I\u2019ve repeatedly addressed, most recently in October of 2015\u2019s\u00a0Can The NYPD Ever Stop Shooting Innocents<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which contains links to several related earlier articles.\u00a0The New York Daily News<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0an all-too-common narrative:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe unidentified suspect was swearing at customers in the store and acting aggressively toward Food Emporium workers before his death.<\/p>\n

A cop working a nearby Verizon picket line greeted the aggressive suspect outside the store, with a brawl ensuing that left both men on the ground, said O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n

The officer escaped the man\u2019s grasp, and the suspect then pulled the long blade, said O\u2019Neill. He started menacingly toward the first cop and two other officers arriving at the scene, cops said.<\/p>\n

The man ignored orders to drop the knife, and one of the officers and a sergeant began shooting. A 46-year-old female bystander at the busy intersection was winged and wounded by one of the [nine] police bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A careful, but hardly exhaustive, study of reality reveals that common knowledge is wrong: where firearms are involved, the police are not highly trained professionals. That many people buy this misconception is understandable. Americans are raised on a steady diet of cop TV shows and movies where the heroes, virtually every episode, end up shooting bad guys, usually dropping them with single, perfectly placed, shots, or even shooting to wound, which virtually always immediately drops and incapacitates the bad guy.<\/p>\n


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It has happened again\u2014still? New York City Police, in stopping a dangerous criminal\u2014apparently legitimately\u2014have also shot up the surrounding citizenry. It\u2019s a problem I\u2019ve repeatedly addressed, most recently in October of 2015\u2019s\u00a0Can The NYPD Ever Stop Shooting Innocents,\u00a0which contains links to several related earlier articles.\u00a0The New York Daily News\u00a0reports\u00a0an all-too-common narrative: \u201cThe unidentified suspect was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}