Shoot to Wound?

New York City treads a slippery slope:

• City cops are livid over a legislative proposal that could handcuff the brave officers involved in life-and-death confrontations every day -- requiring them to shoot gun-wielding suspects in the arm or leg rather than shoot to kill, The Post has learned.

  The "minimum force" bill, which surfaced in the Assembly last week, seeks to amend the state penal codes' "justification" clause that allows an officer the right to kill a thug if he feels his life or someone else's is in imminent danger.

  The bill -- drafted in the wake of Sean Bell's controversial police shooting death -- would force officers to use their weapons "with the intent to stop, rather than kill" a suspect. They would be mandated to "shoot a suspect in the arm or the leg."

The bill isn't given much of a chance to pass and seeing as how NYPD says their officers only have a 17% hit rate, enforcement is sure to be nonexistent. The last hit rate we saw for CPD shootings was around 15%, so it seems shooting under stress would be considered "poor." But this would be another example of people who have no idea what goes into police work legislating from a position of ignorance.