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Originally Posted by Hugh
I always approach this sort of suggestion with ‘what difference would it have made in the incident under discussion’? On the video, it was 8 seconds between the car crossing the central reservation until it hit the barrier, and it was only visible to the police at the barrier for 4 seconds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45193781
In this case, I can’t see how armed officers would have made a difference? |
Sorry for the late reply, the double post feature means that I always wait between replies ; never like doubling up as my posts may not render well, when it comes to formatting purposes.
In this instance I truly think that the possibility of armed officers would have been enough of a deterrent ; not sure that the guy would have necessarily been hit by an officer's bullet when in a car but I think the likely tendency that he wouldn't have gone ahead and driven a car into pedestrians in the area (given that he clearly didn't want to die) would have been far higher.
So, for example (as Luther says) you can't protect everyone all the time, so the likely chance of pushing him elsewhere would have been higher but in a high target area (like the HoP for example) surely that security is warranted even if it does just squeeze terror / whatever this was into more civilian areas...no?
Unless we put armed guards everywhere but that won't work so driverless cars may indeed fix some of this. (At least for vehicular based crimes).