{"id":3639,"date":"2016-03-22T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2016-03-22T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:10:03","slug":"part-4-perfidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/part-4-perfidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4: PERFidy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of PERF\u2019s recommended policies are downright dangerous to police, and to the law-abiding citizens they are sworn to protect. Consider Policy 8: \u201cShooting at vehicles <\/u>must be strictly prohibited. <\/strong>[PERF\u2019s emphasis.] Agencies should adopt a strict prohibition against shooting at or from a moving vehicle unless someone in the vehicle is using or threatening deadly force by means other than the vehicle itself.\u201d Did those who wrote that ever see what an automobile does to an unprotected human body? Perhaps instead of visiting the UK, they should have gone to Graz, Austria and talked to the cops who responded there last year to a rundown spree that killed three victims and injured another 34. Or the officers who investigated the narcissistic killing spree of Eliot Rodger in California, who used his automobile as a deadly weapon itself, as well as his guns and contact weapons, and was only stopped when he met with police gunfire and committed suicide.<\/p>\n

Or Policy 16: \u201cUse Distance, cover and Time <\/u>to replace outdated concepts such as the \u201921-foot rule\u2019 and \u2018drawing a line in the sand.\u201d<\/strong> What? <\/em>Dennis Tueller\u2019s classic drill from 21 feet simply shows that the average adult male can close that distance from a standing start and inflict a fatal stab wound in 1.5 seconds, one of the most thoroughly verified human dynamics in the field of force science.\u00a0 The policy goes on to recommend \u201cbuy(ing) more time.\u201d\u00a0 In real world encounters, more time is rarely available for purchase\u2026<\/p>\n

Or Policy 9: \u00a0\u00a0\u201cProhibit use of deadly force against individuals who pose a danger only to themselves.\u201d<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 Sounds logical until you realize that suicide is inner-directed homicide, which means that the suicidal subject is by definition homicidal\u2026and the impulse can easily outer-direct, with little or no warning. We have to apply the logical, time-proven guidelines of the Supreme Court \u2013 objective reasonableness and the totality of the circumstances \u2013 which PERF tells us elsewhere in their report are insufficient.<\/p>\n

The definition of \u201cperfidy\u201d is betrayal.\u00a0 Adoption of policies that make a dangerous job more dangerous and make it more difficult to protect innocent victims from homicidal criminals, I think, fits the definition of that term.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m far from the only one who thinks so. For other opinions, check the links below, provided by Dave, one of our regular commenters here:<\/p>\n

policemag.com<\/a><\/p>\n

bluesheepdog.com<\/a><\/p>\n

officer.com<\/a><\/p>\n

policeone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some of PERF\u2019s recommended policies are downright dangerous to police, and to the law-abiding citizens they are sworn to protect. Consider Policy 8: \u201cShooting at vehicles must be strictly prohibited. [PERF\u2019s emphasis.] Agencies should adopt a strict prohibition against shooting at or from a moving vehicle unless someone in the vehicle is using or threatening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}