Sentence examples for avoid shootings from inspiring English sources

"I want to avoid shootings and innocents getting hurt," Mr. Kaplowitz said.

Police could lose public funds if officers aren't trained to best avoid shootings Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer, has unveiled an all-male cabinet and in his inaugural speech at the Planalto presidential palace stated: "Trust the values of our people and our ability to recuperate the economy".

One of the LAPD's preferred weapons to help officers avoid shootings often doesn't work.

Politicians are far too cowardly to address gun violence, and as a society, we keep getting stuck on a theoretical debate about the Second Amendment, which keeps us from taking practical measures to avoid senseless shootings like the one in Aurora.

The laws make it easier for people to avoid prosecution in shootings by saying they felt an imminent danger.

The expert said that police officers are trained to hold their index finger along the barrel of a gun, rather than on the trigger, to avoid such accidental shootings during moments of stress.

It's certainly a serious crime," says James Alan Fox, an expert on mass shootings at Northeastern University who remains a bit dubious about referring to these events as "mass shootings" rather than something like "large-scale shootings" to avoid confusion with the old, narrower definition.

He has also called for a special department to freeze sites after police shootings to avoid the kind of tampering with evidence that has been uncovered at the Rampart Division.

The finding was perhaps the most telling in a 14-point plan to avoid officer-on-officer shootings laid out in a letter from Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly to Gov. David A. Paterson.

"Some reports help citizens avoid dangerous situations, like shootings or roadblocks, some of which may be linked to the war on drugs; but these aren't things we think the cartels would really worry about as they are pretty public incidents," he tells TechCrunch.

The center aggregates Twitter messages from citizens about everything from broken streetlights to "situations of risk" and plots them in real-time on a phone app map of Monterrey that warns residents what streets to avoid, alerts the police to shootings and counts in days or hours how quickly public officials fix the problems.