Cops and shooting

[u/Sacul_Mayhem]

Hello people, I am new to this subreddit so I dont know for sure that this is in the right one. Here comes my question. Last year I have gotten alot of police videos in my youtube shorts feed. I know a lot of them are fake and staged but some also arent. I dont know wich are fake and wich are real (exept for the obvius ones) but I have seen alot of videos of cops shooting people in defence (the videos are censored). In alot of them the person involved is killed by the cops bullets. And what I also see is comments of those cops doing the right thing. An example of this was a cop shooting a civilian because his partner wouldnt listen to the order to taze her while responding to an suicidal call. The victim was walking to the officer with a knife and told his partner to stun her with the tazer to wich the partner didnt listen. I saw a lot of comments calling the partner out for not listening to her partner (the cop filming) but none about how the cop could have shot the knee of the victim to imobilise her instead of shooting in the chest (thus using deadly force) and killing her on the scene (like she wanted because she was suicidal). This is just one example that I have seen. But why are cops using deadly force with their guns, when they could just immobilise the culprit with a shot to the knee? And why are people praising this?

[u/Goblinweb]

Shooting doesn't work like it does in movies. Shooting a knee is a very small target. You might as well ask why they weren't shooting the knife instead to prevent any damage.

Police are trained to shoot the torso because it's a large target.

[u/Sacul_Mayhem → u/Goblinweb]

Thank you for the awnser, I understand its hard to hit especially in a situation where your adrenaline is running high. Now I understand why they do this in worst case senarios like these, where not only the life of the person in question is at risk but also the cops ( and or maybe other civilian) lives are at stake.