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"As officers closed in, the man pointed a handgun in the direction of at least one of the officers; one or more of the officers opened fire, killing the man, the police said." Why "one or more"? Is this unknown to the police or do the police just not report such things to the press?
How long until people start using portable RF detectors/sweepers? How long until people use these devices to manipulate police officers into shooting who they want?
"As officers closed in, the man pointed a handgun in the direction of at least one of the officers; one or more of the officers opened fire, killing the man, the police said." Why "one or more"? Is this unknown to the police or do the police just not report such things to the press?
"one" implies that the officer who fired the deadly shot can be easily determined.
Simply because it's a great story on some related issues, I'll again recommend Neal Stephenson's "Jipi and the Paranoid Chip":
How long until people start using portable RF detectors/sweepers? How long until people use these devices to manipulate police officers into shooting who they want?
Placing the trackers where you want to misdirect the po-po is another option, of course, but it seems it was pulling a weapon, not having the tracker, that prompted the shooting.
Not that being approached by uniformed or plainsclothed police under other circumstances might not elicit a similar response.
Last summer, a guy held up a pharmacy near where I was living in Somerville and dropped the (lojack'ed) containers in our garbage.
What sort of response did this prompt?
US drug abuse patterns have suddenly shifted over the past decade. Prescription painkiller overdoses used to hover around the number of overdoses from heroin. In a few short years, they increased sixfold. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health... http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescr... http://www.drugabuse.gov/a…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"one" implies that the officer who fired the deadly shot can be easily determined.
Some have suggested all ammo sold should be traceable to the buyer. If that's a good idea, perhaps we could start with the much-smaller task tracking all ammo issued to law enforcement. (A chemical-tagging mechanism like SelectDNA could help identify kill-shots even when the bullet passes through the victim or is otherwise unrecoverable.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelectaDNA