Foxy my sweet, you can't expect any cop to take the chance of serious injury, because the do gooders have insisted we let the nut cases wander the street.

If you want someone to disarm nut cases, get a flying squad of bleeding hearts together to do the job. If they are going to bleed all over the media, that might as well do it on the street.

Until we change tack, & permanently lock the nut cases up for their own, & our safety, the better. However I'm not holding my breath. The bleeding hearts are blood brothers with the nutcases, so that is where their sympathy lies.

Of course we could lock up the bleeding hearts, they have done more to harm our society than all the criminals put together.

At least that would get them out of the top jobs in our police forces.

Hi there FOXY...

Prima facie I'd agree, it doesn't look good. Of course neither of us were there, I certainly don't know any of the facts, but the way in which you've summed up, it does indeed look quite messy ?

What I said in my last thread, stands. ALL police are trained to aim at the 'centre of the seen mass'. Whether or not this protocol now 'appears' to be somewhat redundant, I don't know. I'd not wish to be in the shoes of the fellow who shot her. Not so much from the legal perspective, rather from the emotional and moral aspect ? This youngster must have been on something to face down an armed copper ? It's so sad that a young life has been lost so unnecessarily. I just hope for all concerned, the cop who fired the fatal shot is NOT tried in the Court of public opinion ?

Dear Hasbeen,

How silly of me - here I was thinking that it
was the job of police officers to be able
to handle difficult situations (that's what
they're supposedly trained to do),
and to protect people.
That their own "safety" should not be their
primary concern, but that the safety of the public took
precedence - even those of the "nut cases" that
you describe.
And how do you know that this young girl was a
"nut-case?" We should perhaps also question the mental
stability of the officer who shot her.
Obviously he was out of his depth mentally.

Fox,

What possible purpose would have been served by a police officer becoming a victim himself and adding to the problem?

It is amazing how some minds work. Your reflex action is to fault and blame the police. But why?

Most citizens would have reasoned that the police officer applied his training and the rules he was given, but was forced by the resolute, continued actions of the offender to use his service pistol to stop the threat. The offender would have been warned, but allegedly she lunged at police with a knife.

Fox, "We should perhaps also question the mental stability of the officer who shot her. Obviously he was out of his depth mentally"

That is completely uncalled for, disgraceful. Don't you claim to have a relative in the police somewhere? Presumably someone wants him to come home after his shift.

Thank you to the police for a good job done to the best of their ability.

No Foxy, that is totally wrong. The cops are trained to protect the public, not the nut cases. We expect our armed forces to take risks with their lives to protect us, it is not part of a cops duty. A cops family are entitled to expect them to come home in one piece, the same as a librarians family.

If you really want to blame someone rather than the lady involved, a little examination of the case would be sure to turn up some magistrate or medical officer who turned this person lose, when they should have been locked up.

Shades of Martin place, & the blame should be directed at the guilty.

Yep you guessed it, the bleeding hearts, who took away the facilities to retain, & the will to deal intelligently with, the nut cases.

OTB,
I noted your comments here relative to Rotherham.

I considered posting here as well but with all that was happening here I decided to post a separate thread.

It is not intended to snub you, but to give the subject its due importance. Like to see your input.