On: How do police handle violence in countries where officers don’t carry guns?

[kobeya]

Who paid for the property damage incurred while they waited?

[PaulKeeble → kobeya]

Its definitely not acceptable in the UK to save more of a shops property by murdering someone, that is a sure fire route to jail for life for a police officer and rightly so.

The answer is the insurance company. Property isn't worth more than a human life but I know in the USA they do have the premise of defending your property lethally, we don't have that in our culture we don't believe in capital punishment regardless of the crime. Shooting a man for property damage is a conviction and sentence to death by a police officer, that is not OK this isn't Judge Dread.

[kobeya → PaulKeeble]

What instead of a trinket store it was the National Gallery and the perp was taking a knife to irreplaceable artwork?

Point is at some point you MUST assign a dollar value to human life, and to pretend otherwise is to have inconsistent morals.

[rodgerd → kobeya]

The owner's insurance, I imagine. Killing someone for the value of a few DVDs is the sort of thing we associate with crazy people, not the police.