[PapaBear3625]

Seems like there could be a better way to subdue a knife wielding suspect and all those cops around. Why not fire some sort of netting around him and then run it around in a circle to wrap him all up. Seems a bit excessive gunning him down like that surrounded by multiple police.

All the alternate methods carry with them the risk of the cops getting cut, or otherwise injured. Cops these days (with the concurrence of their departments) are simply not willing to risk injury to themselves in order to take somebody alive.

If you present a threat of injury, they will simply kill you. And if they are going to shoot you, a dead suspect creates fewer long-term issues than a crippled one.

[quickquiver]

I agree.