Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nThere are 10,000 sworn officers employed in Minnesota<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0They shoot an average of 10 people per year<\/span><\/a> for the past 15 years\u00a0 No police officer was charged in any of those deaths<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>There are 200,000 Minnesotans with valid permits to carry a firearm<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The Violence Policy Center (a gun-control advocacy group) tracks their offenses<\/span><\/a> going back to 2008.\u00a0 Permit holders shoot an average of 2 people per year.\u00a0 \u00a0Four permit holders have been charged with crimes (two are pending).<\/span><\/p>\n
Police shoot 1 person per 1,000 cops.\u00a0 Permit holders shoot 1 person per 100,000 permit holders.\u00a0 Permit holders shoot fewer people in total, and fewer people per capita, than police. Minnesota police are 100 times more likely to shoot somebody than Minnesota pistol permit holders.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Minnesota police shooters are never charged, just like FBI shooters are never charged<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 That could be because no Minnesota <\/span>l<\/span>aw enforcement officer has ever made a mistake; \u00a0it could be because of institutional bias shielding members of the law enforcement community from the consequences of their mistakes; or it could be because the law gives police officers special privileges<\/span><\/a> that are denied to permit holders.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>What is the correct procedure when an officer is approaching a vehicle during a traffic stop?\u00a0 Hand on pistol, just in case the driver is a threat to the officer.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>What is the correct procedure when the driver identities himself as a cop?\u00a0 Most likely, the officer can take his hand off his pistol because even though the driver has a gun, that particular driver is not a threat to the officer.\u00a0 If the officer wants the driver out of the car, what\u2019s the procedure to secure a fellow officer\u2019s gun — take it away or let him keep it?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>What is the correct procedure when the driver identifies himself as a permit holder?\u00a0 Statistically, that driver is even less likely to be a threat to the officer than when the driver is a cop.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t the \u201cnot-a-threat-to-the-officer\u201d procedure be similar – hand off the pistol?\u00a0 If the officer wants the driver out of the car, what\u2019s the procedure to secure a permitted carrier\u2019s gun \u2013 take it away or let him keep it?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>If the procedures are not identical, why not?\u00a0 If the statistics show permitted carriers are less likely to shoot than fellow cops, why is the procedure different?\u00a0 Tribalism, loyalty to the Blue Line Clan?\u00a0 Stereotyping?\u00a0 That\u2019s not a rational basis for treating safer people worse.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>If there were a rational basis for a difference in procedures, how should they differ?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>And most importantly of all, how do we inform officers and permitted carriers of the procedure, to make sure that nobody dies from mis-communication?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It’s the second-scariest thing about carrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There are 10,000 sworn officers employed in Minnesota. \u00a0They shoot an average of 10 people per year for the past 15 years\u00a0 No police officer was charged in any of those deaths. \u00a0\u00a0There are 200,000 Minnesotans with valid permits to carry a firearm.\u00a0 The Violence Policy Center (a gun-control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-59594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","tag-castile-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59595,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59594\/revisions\/59595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}