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Why do police officers shoot a suspect multiple times at once?

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This is part instinctual, part training, and part perceptual. The survival instinct prompts the officer to continue responding to the threat. Training reinforces the requirement to stop the threat. read more

T]he total time to stop shooting in a visually complex, dynamic, rapidly unfolding circumstance as most officer-involved shootings are could be a total of the following approximate time factors: shift and focus (1⁄4 of a second) (Vickers, 2007, p. 20), clarify (1⁄4 of a second) (pp. 19-20), decision (1⁄4 to 1⁄2 of a second or more) (Lewinski & Hudson, 2003b, p. 26), and stop shooting (1⁄4 to 1⁄3 of a second) (Lewinski & Hudson, 2003a, 2003b). read more

That's why officers are trained to fire multiple times when they are justified in doing so. The driver's side window is riddled with bullet holes as New Orleans Police and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigate the fatal shooting of a driver by JPSO following a chase from Oakwood Center to the 2200 block of Simon Bolivar in Central City on Monday, February 8, 2016. read more

Reuters/Mario Anzuoni The news Sunday night that a Ferguson, Missouri, cop shot an unarmed black teenager at least six times may intensify the public's outrage, but it's not unusual for the police to shoot multiple times. read more

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