Editorial: Toughen California's rules on deadly police shootings
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Aug 17, 2018
3 minutes
Police officers should use deadly force only when they have no reasonable alternative. But that easy and obvious statement necessarily raises two questions: Who is to decide whether there were alternatives and they were reasonable? And what should be the consequences for police who fail to meet the standard?
These questions are at the core of a nationwide discussion over policing and the troubling, and continuing, reports of fatal police shootings of
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