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If Australian police officers are allowed to shoot to kill, they should be better trained

  • Written by Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
If Australian police officers are allowed to shoot to kill, they should be better trainedThere is no clear evidence guns make police safer, but officers feel safer with firearms at their disposal. Shutterstock

Australians woke to the news last weekend that a 19-year-old Warlpiri man had been shot and killed by a police officer in Yuendumu, 300km north-west of Alice Springs.

A confrontation had occurred after two officers went to a...

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