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Purplehood wrote:

rm9792 wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

Aggie_engr wrote:......If they are of the cowardly type that drops to ground like a girl screaming don't shoot me,......

....I don't know why, but the visual makes me laugh.

Remember that trick from Diehard (movie)? The head baddie dropped and started crying when Bruce Willis confronted him. It worked for awhile till Bruce figured it out.

Also, a lot of posters mention they dont have the training to handcuff someone. So what? toss the cuffs to the BG and make him cuff his hand to his ankle or something. Cuff his own wrist to a burglar bar, bedpost, whatever. You can see from a safe distance whether it is done or not. Even if they are loose it will still slow him down considerably. Better solution than hoping he complies and doesnt change his mind 5 minutes later.

We have to have cuffs now?

If you've got a BG who would comply with an instruction to cuff himself, you've got a BG who will simply stay where you tell him to without cuffs until the police arrive.

The reverse is also true.

There are no hard and fast answers here.

The simplest cases are holding a compliant suspect in place (definitely not bringing him closer to home and family), and allowing someone who is determined to flee to do so if he doesn't present a deadly threat during his actions. I'm not a proponent of using deadly force to recover property, even if that course of action is authorized by law.

One has to consider that a BG who may still be armed and / or may have accomplices nearby may use an opportunity to leave to flank the GG or otherwise reposition himself to initiate a secondary attack. This possibility can be addressed with repositioning by the GG as well, but it's something that should be kept in mind.