Austrian police officers like to shoot more than their German counterparts

[Tender Branson]

Last year, Austrian police officers shot 81 times while on duty.

4 of them were directly aimed at suspects, the rest were warning shots.

1 of the 4 was deadly, the suspect died. Another suspect was injured.

It is now the 2nd time after 2000 that less than 100 shots were fired by the Police.

In Germany, only 85 shots were fired but 36 of them were directly aimed at suspects. It resulted in 6 dead suspects and 15 wounded.

http://derstandard.at/1336435279893/Oesterreich-Polizisten-gaben-im-Vorjahr-81-Schuesse-ab

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I wonder how many shots American police officers have shot in 2011 ...

[Tender Branson]

They (the authorities in charge of the police) let them shoot "warning shots"?  Wow.  I thought only idiots and people in movies did the whole "warning shot" thing.  They probably shoot to "wound" instead of kill too....which would explain why they only hit 2 of the 4 bad guys they had to shoot at.



<walks away shaking his head saying "warning shots?">

The bad guys in Austria are mostly unarmed or without a gun. Therefore a warning shot by the police is mostly enough for them to surrender. There's mostly no reason to actually kill them.

[Tender Branson]

Do police in Europe not have Tasers (or other, ranged, less lethal, weapons)?  I know the left (and so perhaps all of Europe) love to hate Tasers, but that's just pure ignorance on their part (not like that's a new thing).

Of course they have, but it is used very, very, very rarely:

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[Tender Branson]

And dead0man are you seriously calling Austria a "left" country? LOL. For awhile one of the governing parties in Austria was led by a guy who wanted to require that children of immigrants and native Austrians attend different schools.

What do you mean by "was" ?

Those people are still in the government - they are called ÖVP.

http://derstandard.at/2510386?sap=2&_seite=10

[Tender Branson]

And dead0man are you seriously calling Austria a "left" country? LOL. For awhile one of the governing parties in Austria was led by a guy who wanted to require that children of immigrants and native Austrians attend different schools.

What do you mean by "was" ?

Those people are still in the government - they are called ÖVP.

http://derstandard.at/2510386?sap=2&_seite=10

So it's not just the Freedom Party that supports that, bleh. Well that proves my point to dead0man even moreso.

Yup. The ÖVP wants own foreigner classes. And the FPÖ wants to put the kids of immigrants into the next plane and deport them to the country where they came from ...