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Public Safety (cont’d) “. . . The subjects in [No More Hesitation] targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. . . .” http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/19/is-your-local-police-department-using-pi Police officers put your life on the line every day in order to keep themselves safe — by making themselves ready to open fire, without hesitation, on children, pregnant women and “subjects with atypical … frailty.”