{"id":62740,"date":"2026-01-09T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62740"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:48:44","slug":"latimes-why-lapd-and-other-police-agencies-discourage-shooting-at-cars-and-why-ice-still-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62740","title":{"rendered":"LATimes: Why LAPD and other police agencies discourage shooting at cars \u2014 and why ICE still does"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LATimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-09\/lapd-ice-moving-vehicle-shootings\">Why LAPD and other police agencies discourage shooting at cars \u2014 and why ICE still does<\/a> by Libor Jany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Many U.S. police departments, including the LAPD, discourage officers from shooting at moving vehicles due to the high risk of stray gunfire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recent ICE shootings in Portland and Minneapolis have reignited debate over when deadly force against motorists is justified or necessary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since January 2015, LAPD officers have fired their weapons at least 36 times at vehicles, killing seven motorists or passengers and wounding 12 others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATimes: Why LAPD and other police agencies discourage shooting at cars \u2014 and why ICE still does by Libor Jany:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62741,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62740\/revisions\/62741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}