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Originally Posted by Ledgem
When animals escape from the zoo, they are frequently put down with tranquilizers rather than lethal force (at least, this used to be the case). Why do the police not give other humans the same consideration?
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Tranquilizers are, unfortunately, not really less-than-lethal force. Animals die from being tranquilized quite often.
Many feel that giving police an "only possibly lethal" force might encourage an officer to use that force in occasions where lethal force would not absolutely be justified or, at the very least, provoke lawsuits accusing such in cases where a person was permanently injured or killed by such force.
You see this today with stun-guns and other "less than lethal force" methods which contain the slight possibility of doing greater harm than intended.