by Bob Walsh
There is yet another idiotic and even dangerous legislative proposal erupting from the state legislature. Under current law, based on a SCOTUS decision, police use of deadly force must be "reasonable", that being what a reasonable peace officer in similar circumstances would have done in more or less the same way.
The proposal, by Senator Nancy Skinner, D_Bezerkley, would demand that peace officers fire their weapons only when absolutely necessary, when there is not an alternative to doing so under the circumstances.
That would of course be virtually never, you can always just let the bad guy escape if you choose to do so. There is almost ALWAYS an alternative, just not always a reasonable alternative.
San Francisco D. A. George Gascon, who was at one time the chief of police there, thinks this is a WONDERFUL idea. The ACLU also thinks it is absolutely marvelous.
I would not care to bet that this will actually pass, but I would not care to be that it won't either.
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