It must be a cultural thing, not sharing the same values as the US and "exceptionalism."

Police shot 18 persons in first 6 months of 2013

(De Volkskrant) - New statistics have just been released by AG's Office in The Netherlands. In the first six months of 2013, there were 18 victims shot by police bullets. Seventeen were wounded, one person died of gunshot wounds. Relative to recent years, the numbers are on the increase. Except in 2011, a year where 34 victims were shot, the yearly total never passed the 30 victims.

CIA statistics The Netherlands

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At 02:15 pm Miriam Carey drove up to the entrance gate of the South Lawn at the White House and spoke to a Secret Service agent as her vehicle was not recognized. She was refused entry and the "chase began". See map of location below in article.

CNN: "Thursday's drama began around 2 p.m., when the woman steered a black Infiniti near the White House, a U.S. Secret Service source said. She drove up to a barrier at the 15th and E street checkpoint and was approached by Secret Service officers. She hurriedly made an erratic three-point turn, striking the barrier and backing into an officer before driving away. Police said the car sped down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, where security vehicles stopped it at Garfield Circle."

Tell me how a Secret Service agent didn't notice the one year-old child in her car. Don't the Washington myriad of agents, plain clothes police, Washington and Capitol police communicate with each other? Total, total PANIC broke out as I witnessed LIVE on about 5/6 satellite stations in Europe: CNN, BBC, Sky News, MSNBC, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera. At the Capitol buildings, people are very lucky no one else got killed and no government agents and police got into a gun battle. This was not a display of security but paranoid, fear, insecurity and very, very unprofessional.

Miriam Carey: Woman killed outside Capitol Hill after trying to "ram gates" of White House

Shut down Congress and let 'We The People' get back our jobs. Congress should be in session for just a few months every year, the less these "representatives" can wreck in our lives.

See earlier comments in fp story by BooMan - Casual Observation.

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Use of force to be studied in DC police chase

(AP) - Experts in the use of deadly force said there were more questions than answers at this point. Many police departments direct their officers not to fire at moving vehicles -- even if the driver is using the car as a weapon -- or permit it under extremely limited circumstances. And experts wondered whether police should have relied on other options, such as establishing a roadblock, to diffuse the situation.

"I think the question we have to ask is, 'What threat did she cause?" said Geoffrey Alpert, an expert on police use of force at the University of South Carolina. "What threat was she to the officers, to the public, to the politicians?"

Chuck Drago, a former Oviedo, Fla., police chief who now works as a police consultant, said he was concerned officers approached the vehicle on foot while the conflict was still unfolding. That kind of direct contact can elevate the tension of an already dangerous scenario and leave an officer feeling anxious and vulnerable, he said.

"Their main concern should have been trying to keep that vehicle from moving, and then exposing themselves only adds to the danger and lessens their options in the long run," Drago said.

... Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer said he was confident the officers "did the best they could under the situation." Police guarding national landmarks must make fast decisions without the luxury of all the facts, especially when a threat is perceived, he said.

"This is not a routine highway or city traffic stop. It is simply not that," Gainer said. "The milieu under which we're operating at the United States Capitol and I suspect at the White House and at icons up in New York is an anti-terrorism approach, and that is a difference with a huge, huge distinction."

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