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Originally Posted by newerguy
The rubber part of a tire is fairly small, and is on the edge of the wheel. A car is moving, potentially moving very quickly. A miss carries a risk to others.
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What of a missed shot that was aimed at the driver, not the tire? No risk to others?
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Originally Posted by captcharlie
I think you'll find that most departmental use of force policies prohibit firing at a moving vehicle. Like the PIT maneuver, it's considered deadly force. There's several problems with it. Not only are there too many variables to predict where those rounds are going to go, you also usually don't know about any other occupants in the vehicle. Are there kids? Hostages?
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Wait, are you now saying that apart from just prohibiting "shooting out tires," deadly threats presented by a driver of a vehicle cannot be addressed by shooting the
driver either? So what can be done, then? Just wait til he runs out of gas?
You speak of the possibility of others in the vehicle (and they may be hostages OR accomplices): you don't to shoot at the vehicle for fear of endangering them. Fine. But the presence of non-principal suspects cannot
always be used to justify a no-shoot rule. What if, for example, the guy in the car was waving a hi-cap pistol out the window and firing randomly on a city street? Hell yeah I want the cops taking their shot at him, and screw the people who
may or may not be in the car with him, and who
may or may not even be fellow criminals!
-azurefly