Shoot or be Killed: Putting You in the Officer's Shoes During a Use of Deadly Force Case

By Tim C. Stadler

Ever wonder what exactly happens when an officer is involved in the User of Deadly Force?

What the officer saw and what he thought as it occurred?

You have that opportunity as a 25 year veteran police Sergeant puts you in his shoes on that fateful day he experienced.

You are taken step by step from being assigned the call, to arriving at the scene. You then experience exactly what he saw and was thinking up to and through that life or death moment.

You experience what happens afterwards and how it affects your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483528045

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Officer involved shootings

Fewer than 5 out of 100 police officers is ever involved in the use of deadly force their entire career. And, only 2 of those 100 ever take someone's life in the line of duty during their entire career. When you listen to the evening news and hear that a police officer has been involved in a shooting, you never get to know exactly what happened.

The television news reporter will be standing outside where the shooting occurred. They will name the business or residential address. They will say that someone died, that the officer was placed on administrative leave, and give a short description of what happened. The suspect entered the business, did this or that, the officer confronted him, shots were fired and the suspect died at the scene, on the way to the hospital, or at the hospital. You will read the newspaper the next morning and get the same story, but maybe with a little more information about what happened and who the suspect was that died.

The truth of the matter is that officers hope and pray they never have be involved in a shooting or have to take another human beings life away. Yes, they prepare for that moment from their first day in the police academy until the day they retire. But, they actually hope they will get to brag when they retire, I was lucky enough to never have to fire my gun at someone in my whole career. I thought I would be that lucky. Fate dealt a different hand.

Fifteen years after my Officer Involved shooting, I want to show you what happens when an officer has to use Deadly Force and take someone's life. This is the time when an officer's background, training, and thought processes come rapidly together as a result of an immediate threat to the safety of citizens and officers. I want you, the citizen, to know firsthand exactly what happens, step by step. I will put you in my place, to see what I saw, and think what I thought.

You are now that Police Sergeant

From this point on, you are a Police Sergeant, with 14 years on the Police Department. You are thirty five years old, married with two children. You were born and raised in the city you are serving now. You didn't know you would end up being a police officer, but you did grow up wanting to be a good citizen, an Ail-American guy.

You are no different than any other officer save the discipline and training that having been a United States Marine provided you. But believe me, don't sell that training short, it definitely has an impact on a person being able to do what has to be done when the time comes. Going through Marine Corps boot camp where you are dismantled and then rebuilt and reshaped into a highly disciplined Marine. Back in 1984 it was definitely an advantage in getting hired on the police department. And it definitely helped in 1998 in what you are about to experience.

On November 12, 1998 the weather was sunny in Tulsa Oklahoma, but fall was coming on. The temperature was 55 degrees which was slightly below average. It was

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[Joshua Suber · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A must purchase for any victim advocacy! Every angle needs it.