Friday, January 17, 2014

10News - Retired law enforcement officer criticizes San Diego police for shooting after pursuit - 10News.com - News

 I agree with this retired officer, unless this guy was standing there shooting throughout the neighborhood the primary response should have been from the lead pursuing car.  They department is very lucky that innocent bystanders or other officers weren't hit by friendly fire.  I think someone should do a complete investigation on the scene to include locating where every bullet ended up. I would like to know if any rounds struck buildings or vehicles in the area and how much they actually put the public in danger.

I understand the adrenalin gets flowing in situations like this, and the officers are concerned with the safety of the public and other officers but someone needed to be in control of this situation. By the way it is explained in the story it seems that at one point other officers may have been in the crossfire and I'm just going to say everyone involved is lucky no innocent bystanders where hit by stray rounds. I believe this is an isolated incident and normally the situation would be under control by a senior officer on the scene I just think this is one of the rare situations that get out of hand.

Another thing I do believe that this many officers firing at one man in a car is to much and the car in the lead and the officer or officers who where in that vehicle should have been the only one's firing their weapons unless  they requested assistance then the assisting officers should have attempted to move up to the lead cars position to assist. Instead it seems like every officer that responded to the chase also ended up being in the shoot out and this is probably the reason the suspect did not survive the shooting, many times when as few as officers as possible return fire they can disable the shooter and the shooter will end up going to trial.




10News - Retired law enforcement officer criticizes San Diego police for shooting after pursuit - 10News.com - News

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