We're obviously concerned by these results, ... but, thank God, we're finding this out now rather than later, because this is a critical issue for officer safety, and the adverse effects could be horrible otherwise.

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We expected the Justice Department to find some level of deficiency in these vests, but this level is startling.

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Ninety-six percent of law enforcement assets in this country are at the state and local level.

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These officers made a judgment when confronted by an armed individual and they did what they were trained to do, which is shoot to kill. I am not aware of any policy that calls for anything less than shooting to kill. It just isn't done.

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Infectious disease is a very significant officer-safety issue. We constantly stress the need for caution, whether we are talking about CPR or needle sticks just from searching somebody during an arrest.

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