//False comparison.//

Because they have more crime in Mexico and South America? That's what we're comparing here, otb.

Or do you think it's a false comparison because there are less white people in those countries and you subscribe to the racist dogma that brown people are inherently more criminal than white people?

//Then again, the reckless diversity that Britain has to have thanks to the leftists has resulted in serious crime.//

Of course, dear. Until the dreaded communists increased Britain's migrant intake in the early 2000s, they didn't have serious crime in Britain. Burke & Hare, Jack the Ripper, the Kray Twins, Dennis Nilsen, Myra Hindley, Ian Brady, Graham Young and Harold Shipman are all just mythological figures: propaganda invented by the communists to make it seem as if Britain had problems with serious crime long before it actually did - in the early 2000s, when it was introduced by foreign people. Before the foreigners introduced serious crime to be Britain, it was a peaceful and joyous utopia where nobody was ever mean to anybody else. Not even in Northern Ireland.

No. It would not be acceptable to our poofy police, although, to give them their due, it's not their fault but the fault of the politcised superiors. The American officer should (a might very well have) received an award for doing his job - protecting the public. The situation was solved by one man, with no fuss and no following expense and pallaver which would have seen a week judge hand out weak sentence.

"The situation was solved by one man"

I don't see how the police officer had any alternative where a member of the public was being threatened with imminent death by an offender who refused to comply with police instructions to lay down his weapon and set the hostage free.

For the hostage, the public and the police, it was fortunate that one officer had access to an accurate long-arm (M16 or similar) and was well trained, using the vehicle as a rest and doubtless taking into account possible fall of shot and so on. Everybody but the offender who was responsible for his own fate went home unharmed that night.

The police officer will receive a commendation and when he does, it is thoroughly deserved. Thankfully, counselling is available now for the police, who are forced by criminals to put their lives on the line and must live with the memories of doing what they have to do.

I don't envy the work that the police have to do.
The decisions that they are forced to make at
times can't be easy and I'm sure that those
decisions are carefully scrutinised - and those
decisions are justly or unjustly - examined after the event.

Being a member of the public I feel that we're really not
in a position to judge. If members of the police feel
that the wrong decision was made at the time it should be
senior members of the force who should decide what course
of action should be taken

On the extreme right we have the pro gun, shoot to kill mentality of those who believe there is always justification for coppers to use their guns as the first resort. The same extremest's believe in a police state, even going as far as supporting a politically controlled, well armed 'citizens militia'.
The extremists not only want unfettered police powers to 'shoot to kill' they want the same police force used politically to control perceived undesirables in society, leftists, communists, feminists, trade unionists etc etc.
All sounds very familiar, there are one or two on the forum who fit this bill.

Unfortunately Foxy, that is something I can not agree with, police, policing, police. We have had a number of instances in NSW of police investigating serious matters concerning other officers, only to produce finding that can best be described as a whitewash.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-24/police-escape-discipline-in-investigations:-figures/6803146

What is needed is an independent judicial body to investigate these serious allegations involving police.