I am writing in response to the police shooting in Portland in a homeless center (“Police kill suspect inside shelter,” April 9).
I was married for 22 years to a deputy sheriff in Salt Lake County, Utah. In the 1960s, police would shoot suspects in the legs; that would stop their attacks and the suspects would live. Why don’t they still do this? I can’t believe if a suspect has a knife he could attack the police before they could shoot him in the leg.
I have been around over 80 years and I don’t like the amount of police killings going on nowadays. It isn’t only people of color without guns, but also mentally ill people like this recent Portland shooting. I thought the police were taught how to tell the difference, but evidently not. I wish there would be a change.