...four people.:eek: Was listening to a national call in show Friday and this guy calls in to discuss the Dallas police shootings. He was a former police officer somewhere in TX I'm pretty sure he stated, believe he said Dallas but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I have heard some police officers refer to the number of times they have actually had to draw their weapon. Usually most officers go a career without having to discharge their weapon. Some have to fire their weapon at some point, and unfortunately a few shoot and/or kill someone during their career in the course of their job.

 

But when the dude said he had shot 4 people in four years, my jaw liked to hit the floor. For those in law enforcement, doesn't this seem really excessive? And he didn't say he was with any special response team or anything, just said he was a police officer.

 

Now don't het me wrong, if a cop needs to shoot, I'll be the first to say "fire"...and if he was in that many situations where he needed to do that, then I guess he needed to. But my gosh...maybe that's why he only spent 4 years doing it, who knows.

My cousin has been a police officer for 17 years and has never had to discharge his weapon.

What was his "cop" job?

 

Patrol man....yeah excessive.

 

 

SWAT or something else where you are almost guaranteed to pull the trigger....probably not.

 

 

Or he could be full of crap.

There is a chance that he was in the "right" situations that using his weapon that many times in that period was justified.

 

I'm going to bet that wasn't the case... Simply because that seems like a ridiculously high number compared to what most LEO's report.

Is there a statistic for how many times the average officer discharges his weapon in say a 25 year career? I would love to see them.

What was his "cop" job?

 

Patrol man....yeah excessive.

 

SWAT or something else where you are almost guaranteed to pull the trigger....probably not.

 

 

Or he could be full of crap.

 

He just said officer...didn't say any special task force or anything which made me believe he was a regular patrolman.

My cousin has been a police officer for 17 years and has never had to discharge his weapon.

 

Where? There is a difference between Fort Thomas and inner city Houston or Dallas. 4 seems high, but he still had his job so it sounds like they may have been justified or he would have been in jailed or terminated? But now he is off of the force after 4 years, maybe the 4th shooting was not justified? I may go with the BS side of this story.

Where? There is a difference between Fort Thomas and inner city Houston or Dallas. 4 seems high, but he still had his job so it sounds like they may have been justified or he would have been in jailed or terminated? But now he is off of the force after 4 years, maybe the 4th shooting was not justified? I may go with the BS side of this story.

Boone Co.

Is there a statistic for how many times the average officer discharges his weapon in say a 25 year career? I would love to see them.

 

I didn't see a statistic per se what read an article from 2008

 

Picked apart closely, the reports provide a remarkable portrait of how the nation’s largest police force, with 36,000 officers, uses its guns. Every shot, from gunfight to accident to suicide, both on and off-duty, is accounted for.the number of bullets fired by officers dropped to 540 in 2006 from 1,292 in 1996 — the first year that the city’s housing, transit and regular patrol forces were merged — with a few years of even lower numbers in between. Police officers opened fire 60 times at people in 2006, down from 147 in 1996.

 

In Los Angeles - In Los Angeles, which has 9,699 officers, the police fired 283 rounds in 2006, hitting their target 77 times, for a hit ratio of 27 percent, said Officer Ana Aguirre, a spokeswoman. Last year, they fired 264 rounds, hitting 76 times, for a 29 percent hit ratio, she said.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/nyregion/08nypd.html?_r=0