You don’t understand because the standards have changed. They used to be experiencing an actual threat. Now they are simply if an officer is afraid something dangerous might happen. Period. 007, license to kill. Those are the current police shoot to kill rules of engagement. And they are ten times looser than our combat troops have to obey. These are just facts.
Heh, if only our troops had the same ROE in Afghanistan as cops do here, we would have wiped out Al-Qaeda years ago.