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Shoot to kill has been used with police believing there to be a threat. I think in the CdM case there was a catalouge of errors that led to the police to incorrectly believe he was a threat and ultimately shooting him. The scary thing is in the inquiry top police officals admitted killing an...

You're talking about a very specific situation and the shoot to kill policy has a larger scope than just that situation. If a guy with a suicide vest or machine gun is clearly a terrorist and about to kill someone, then yes killing him before he kills people would be the right decision to make...

The policy of shoot to kill being applied to terrorists seems obvious given the atrocities in France. The problem however is that shoot to kill isn’t easily applied to terrorists, because terrorists don’t advertise themselves. What happens is they look like normal people, and applying shoot to...