In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law

Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law by mikeash on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:17AM (#8752346)

It's theoretically possible to cause someone's death just by turning on a siren or flashing lights at them. Does that mean that the threshold for using those things should be the same as for a gun?

Even if the threshold is the same, that doesn't mean that the pepper spray isn't a much superior alternative, especially for people who are supposed to be protecting civilians, including civilians they're arresting.

Do you have a citation about the statistics becoming European if you remove the US south? This PDF breaks down police-related deaths by region:

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf

And while the South is higher than other regions, the others are hardly what I'd call "low".

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Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law by hga on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:40AM (#8752476)

I was unclear in the "we look rather European" bit, that's for all violent crime and/or homicides, not just police caused ones, for which as I understand the statistics are iffy, i.e. there's no requirement to report them.

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