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You'd think with all the shooting they do cops would be better at shooting things. A hundred rounds for one dude? Even if he was an actual threat that's a huge waste of money. Ammo is expensive.
Not expensive enough. As the Chris Rock joke goes, maybe if bullets cost $10k per round we wouldn’t have so much needless gun violence.
Unlimited budgets, they can't care.
You can see what they said when you hit the reply button, even though the comment was deleted.
I know this isn't the point, but I thought ammo was much cheaper than that.
It once was, before gun companies and ammo manufacturers realized they could squeeze fud for all he's worth if they rant (through means such as the NRA) that someone is coming for your guns. Eight cents for 9mm is pre-craze prices. I think the last bulk buy I saw was more in the $0.15 range. .223 has also doubled, in my experience. .22lr went through the roof. It was once $20 for 500 rounds. Now I saw 200 for $30. The only ammo I can think of that hasn't changed greatly is shotgun shells.
9mm is currently like $0.22 per in 1000ct, .22lr is around $0.07, .223 is around $0.55.
9mm and .22lr are about 25% higher than pre-craze, .223 has kept the same price as during craze.
50cal is in the dollars per round for certain types of ammunition, less than ten cents a bang is bloody cheap.
TIL, thanks!
He did fire at the police, you know. Pretty sure that counts as an actual threat.
He fired at a group of dudes in civilian clothes driving regular vehicles telling him they were cops. Guess what more than tripled from 2019 to 2021 and continues? Car jackings and armed car jackings.
They allege this was for a seatbelt. Weapons drawn for a simple traffic stop?
Plainclothes officers, especially, should not be approaching people with a weapon drawn.
This is exactly why the "defund the police" movement is so popular.
Traffic cops do not need to be armed.
Traffic stops should also be initiated by marked cruisers. If needed, plainclothes cops can assist, but they shouldn't be the first contact.
I'm not stopping for an unmarked without being on the phone with 911 to make sure they're a real cop.
Growing up, we had a string of assaults in a podunk city that was perpetrated buy some guy(s) who bought some blue/red lights and a siren. Hell, for a while even the cops were saying not to stop outside of a well lit area at night...
The problem is cops will shoot you for doing that too.
Well, hopefully getting shot in a well lit area means they can't suppress the footage like they've done so many other times...
Specially traffic cops on a ego trip thinking they are playing Miami Vice
The vehicles had lights and sirens, and the officers were wearing body armour that identified them as police.
The idea that he thought this was a carjacking just isn't feasible.
Plainclothes police and unmarked cars should not exist (outside of, potentially, planned and warranted sting operations)
All of which can be easily purchased online by anyone.
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You are literally the only one defending these thugs. Just stop it.
Not so feasible that even the 60 minutes show not so long ago did a episode/piece just about a wave of robberies that their method was using police cloths, sirens on their vehicles bought on Amazon.. This must be common enough for 60 minutes show to do a piece on it, and I bet people who seen it sure think it's a thing that is happening. Not that I'm blaming 60 minutes, just saying that it's common enough for a national tv show to pick on it for a piece.
Maybe... I still remember the national news piece about D&D being evil, and the national furor over satanic cults existing inside of day cares that had plenty of news coverage. Fearmongering isn't a new millennium thing, it's just gotten prolific due to the ease of the internet.
Nearly 100 shots. Either they really suck at hitting targets, or they really like shooting people.
20 rounds in a Glock mag, five officers, basically all five of them put an entire mag into the guy.
I probably would too, if someone was shooting at me.
So you're telling me that State-condoned violence is managed by people who are not better trained than a rando on the Internet.
You don't expect a trained soldier to shoot all the rounds when he is being attacked for multiple reasons. For other reasons you should also expect that a trained police officer shoots in the best possible way. All agents firing all the rounds in the mag sounds like panic too me, and if it is then cops should be better trained. One thing is how we civilians would react, another thing is how a professional that has a license to kill acts. And men with license to kill panicking and firing all the rounds sure isn't professional.. so why we admit that can say "oh I'm my case I would do the same.". They are professionals, they should act professional, they NEED TO BE professional or else shouldn't carry a arm and a licence to kill.
Have you heard of suppressing fire? Soldiers fire a huge amount of ammunition without hitting anything.
And as other commenters have pointed out, it's not panic, it's a strategy, keep firing until the threat is down.
Swirl it a little, slosh it around and swallow it mate. You must like the taste.
Lol.