Dum-dum bullets in NYPD

[Greg Nowell]

I read in American Oggi/La Repubblica that the NYPD is
or is about to get dum dum bullets (which explode
internally on impact) because

1.  You bring the target down faster, reducing the need
to shoot more, hence protecting passers-by
2.   The bullets don't pass through the body of the
victim thereby perhaps hitting passers-by.

The article was very anti-dum dum and noted they had
been banned from international warfare in the late 19th
century.  The name comes from a city in India where
they were first manufactured, apparently by the
British.

The AO/LR article said that two bullets went to the
head of the victim who got shot 19 times.

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Gregory P. Nowell
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