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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1413785)8/8/2023 8:54:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1579737
 
Just for you, Brumar:

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Why police shoot so many times to bring down a suspect | CNN

The “textbook answer” is that officers fire until they’ve terminated a threat, according to Seth Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies policing.

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A 2019 study of the Dallas Police Department found that in more than 130 shootings, officers struck their targets 35% of the time. Most of their shots were misses. And a 2006 analysis, which examined a number of major metropolitan police department shootings throughout the late ’80s and early ‘90s, found that hit rates rarely exceeded 50%. Some departments, including the New York Police Department in 1990, hit only about 23% of targets.
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Did you see that? Police officers only have a 35% hit rate. Even the good ones rarely go above 50% accuracy.

Think you're gonna down your target with just one shot? OK, Dirty Harry ...

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