Shoot to kill: A policy that was DOA?

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by Name

My only question, how long before this policy is accepted by the US govt? Or did I miss it and it is already US policy?

Just the next step to police statehood.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the heads of police departments in the United States and across the world, has issued new guidelines saying that officers who confront a suicide bomber should shoot the suspect in the head.

The police group's guidelines also say the threat to officers does not have to be "imminent," as police training traditionally teaches. Officers do not have to wait until a suspected bomber makes a move, another traditional requirement for police to use deadly force. An officer just needs to have a "reasonable basis" to believe that the suspect can detonate a bomb, the guidelines say.