Police Shootings
Re “Police Shootings,” letter, April 13: I have been a police officer for over 10 years. It has never been the policy of either agency I have worked for to “shoot to kill.” Leonard Burney asks the question, why do police shoot to kill, not shoot to wound.
The conditions [during a shooting] are always less than ideal. The easiest part of a person to hit is also the part that could cause fatal injury. The mind-set is to reduce the threat, not to kill. Unfortunately, death sometimes occurs but, generally speaking, most of those who die put themselves in that position, not the police.
MIKE MINER
San Bernardino
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