Police

A friend of mine was a police officer and once told me that when he received a call about a fight in a bar he always took the long way to get there feeling that the fighters would wear themselves out by the time he arrived. This might be a good policy for police to follow when they receive 911 calls. The other day an officer responding to an emergency call got there just in time to shoot a woman who was trying to stab another women. This officer was roundly criticized for not taking some other course of action. Some suggested he fire a warning shot. If he had arrived just a few seconds later the stabbing would have taken place and the stabber would have disappeared. The officer would then just call the ambulance and start taking down names of witnesses and received no criticism.