Re:The Human Toll of Flashbangs
by maxlybbert on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:05AM
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They still make mistakes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Meneze... ), but since it takes a little more work, I'll assume they make fewer mistakes.
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Re:The Human Toll of Flashbangs
by Brakenshire on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:55AM
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> since it takes a little more work, I'll assume they make fewer mistakes.
To put this in context, over the four years from 2008-2012, police officers in England and Wales opened fire on 18 separate occasions, killing nine people.
In a country of 55 million people, that's about 5 shooting incidents, and 2 people killed each year.
http://www.channel4.com/news/police-fatal-shooting-trigger-h...