I read a lot, and most of my favorite books have a cop or someone else carrying a gun in them. Those are fiction, even if they're written by ex-police, ex-forensic, etc.
"Real" cop stories give me the absolute heebie jeebies.
"10 feet"????
Just a writer with a vivid imagination here, but I can write several off-the-cuff scenarios where that 10 feet rule ends up with a dead cop. I, personally, would much rather have a dead druggie than a dead cop.
Do you have the "you must shoot to kill, not to wound" rule? (One I've never understood, frankly.) I think pulling any kind of a weapon on a cop should make you kiss goodbye to one of your kneecaps. (I know that's easier said than done from a distance with a handgun.)
I wonder if you can answer a question for me. It's my husband's question. Last night's CSI involved an insane firefight that went wrong and a cop was killed...as it turned out, accidentally shot by another cop. The deceased officer stood up when he shouldn't have. The other officers pulled away from the two cops under suspicion, and most definitely pulled away from the one that was determined to have accidentally shot the officer at the funeral. (The widow most definitely did not; hugged him and said "I know it wasn't your fault.")
After the episode, my husband said "I wonder if real cops would have reacted that way?"
(If I have just wandered into that "civilians don't get to ask those kinds of questions" area, I apologize and withdraw the question.)
