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BTW, if there are any LEO's on here with experience to share on the subject, I'd love to hear it. [/B]
In 18 years, discharged my fire arm in the line of duty twice. Each time, my biggest fear is where the projectile would eventually stop.
Started out with TZ-75 9mm, excellent weapon. Down side high muzzle velocity, hit your target......may go through and accidentally hit second target (bystander), a block away. Moved to .357 S&W wheel gun, another excellent weapon. From there I went to the S&W .40 cal, auto & never looked back, knock down of a .45 cal, accurate as a 9mm. Backup weapon .380 w/silver tips. Off duty weapon S&W hammerless .38 special Light Weight.
I see some posts here that think the Poolice walk around with the shootemup attitude. Nothing is further from the truth. Any officer pulls that weapon out of his / her hoster (let alone discharges that weapon) puts themselve's in line for.......shoot reveiw board, internal affairs review board, goes before the Grand Jury to determine if Deadly Force was justified. Then there's the person that was offended by the officer displaying deadly force........and the civil suit that follows. On top of that, you have the feds that look into the case if the perp screams civil rights violations, then you find yourself in front of a federal judge.
BTW: My first shooting was in effort to disable a vehicle trying to run me down; Shooting review board, IA review, Grand Jury. (2 shots)
Second was shot and killed attack dog sent in on me during a narcotics raid: Shooting review, IA, Grand jury, and civil case lodged against us for cruel animal treatment (lol) (1 shot)
As a cop, not only do we have to be concerned about the use of our firearms, but the rest of our equipment too; baton, taser, mace, even our patrol car lolol.
