Rad Filed was with DPD Reserve for 10 years (1970-1980), finished as Staff Lt. 

10/22/04  USE OF DEADLY FORCE

Long standing law enforcement tests, demonstrations and training films have PROVED that in situations where a perpetrator points a weapon at an officer, the officer MUST respond first with force or deadly force.

This action assumes that the officer does not have adequate protective cover already in place. 

One CANNOT WAIT until the perpetrator decides whether or not he or she is going to fire at the officer. 

Human response times and even common sense demonstrate that an officer's decision to shoot MUST be made prior to his opposition acting first.   A holstered law enforcement weapon during such a confrontation is USELESS. 

It is not clear, pending further enforcement testing, if a TASER (with one shot available), would suffice to save an officer's life in such life or death situations.

My initial thoughts on the TASER being the all-conditions savior for an officer in JEOPARDY would draw a NO vote until satisfactory design modifications materialize.

Rad Field