re: #145 lawhawk

Want to reduce officer involved shootings; change the law:

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It wont stop all officer involved shootings, but it does give clearer guidance on when deadly force can and should be used. And it works. This goes hand in hand with training and tactics, as well as making sure that officers that are disciplined and fired for excessive force aren’t able to find jobs elsewhere despite their record.

And if not the law, at least the training of police officers. Police shootings, especially fatal ones, are rare here in Sweden. And they are trained to try their best to de-escalate a situation. More than once, police officers have been quoted as saying “If I have to pull out my service firearm, I have failed.”
Legally, police have the right to open fire without warning. However, it is customary here to fire a handful of warning rounds before firing for effect. Also, primary aiming points are extremities (i.e. non-lethal in majority of cases), but there are levels of threat when Swedish police will use directly lethal force to end it.
Also, swedish police is rolling out trials of tasers as we speak.