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> Especially compared to other countries, the US police seem to show quite the restrained

There have been multiple instances where the us police shot someone and fired more bullets in this situation than the while german police in a whole year. And i don't mean big standoffs but shooting a single person.

/edit: in 2018 the german police fired a total of 54 bullets on persona killing 11.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_i...

>>chefko+(OP)
I agree that police violence and brutality is at unacceptable levels. However, number of bullets fired may not be a good statistic. My understanding is US police officers are trained to fire the whole magazine of rounds.

>>setham+hp
> My understanding is US police officers are trained to fire the whole magazine of rounds.

No, this is incorrect. Police are trained to stop a threat. Handguns despite what you see in movies are actually quite poor at doing this, so the accepted and common doctrine is “at least 5-6 rounds center mass”.

This is in life or desth situations where that person must be stopped or someone else will die.

If police were trained for one and reassess, they would shoot one. Trained for two; and they’ll a lot two regardless if they have a good sight picture after the first shot or not.

So the training is “stop the threat”, be prepared to shoot 5 rounds center mass as quickly as possible, move, maintain a sight picture, do all the things you need to do but focus on the target first and gun and number of bullets second.