ok.. i see. they’ve removed a useful weapon and left the officers ill equipped.
could that be the intention with the expectation of more citizens being shot by cops which could escalate to cries for more gun control? (tho it’d make union cops look bad, so i doubt the anti-gun/pro-big-govt types want that)
meanwhile, if a perp is running at you with no visible weapon and he must be stopped... and you have time for 10 shots... legs? knees? incapacitate instead of kill, no?
meanwhile, wth... 10 shots and still twitching?? good shooting with 83% on target tho placement and quantity needed due to poor placement is in question
The PR24 was a pain in the ass to haul around, required more training to become and stay proficient with. The ASP you could carry on you belt collapsed and the strikes and deployment are much more large muscle group friendly. BTW, joint strikes are considered “red zone” strikes, last resort with that particular level of force.
Rodney King spelled the death of PR24s.
Police officers are not taught to shoot at limbs, only center mass or failure drills. A big healthy football player hopped up on at the very least adrenaline, might have taken all those rounds and continued to stand. Standing is still resisting. Further, officers aren’t trained to kill, they are trained to shoot in areas that will bring the quickest incapacitation. If they were shooting to kill, then a 7.62 rifle would be the standard issue for each officer. Pistol rounds are a poor substitute and only ten percent of all victims of pistol caliber wounds die as a result of their injuries.