What they didn t teach you at the police academy. No one wants or plans to be involved in a shooting.
Most shootings happen in split seconds.
Generally there is little time to evaluate the situation and make decisions except for those decisions based upon training and instinct. When you took the job as a law enforcement professional, you became part of the criminal justice system. This is the only profession that can legally take someone s life. As a law enforcement officer someday you may have to choose to take another person s life by deadly force. Should you be put in this unenviable position you must remember that society does not like this and that you must expect go through the steps your government has devised to ensure that you did the correct thing.