What are those funky looking shotguns I saw the Cincinnati PD firing with such glee on CNN? Do they fire those blue shell casings I saw the President of the NAACP holding on the same program?
Are Police required to account for non-lethal rounds as they are for “real” ones?
What you saw were probsbly bean-bag guns, which fire a large cartridge that contains a bean-bag projectile. They’re used for crowd control. They’re not intended to hurt seriously, just be a “detterant.” 
My parents use to live there and in Hamilton county and I often went downtown and never had any problems with the police. I think the police are doing their jobs as they do in any city and if people are causing problems they deal with them. It doesn’t matter what color you are it matters if you cause trouble or not. Or if you are stopped and they check you out you don’t co-operate then maybe there are problems.
I think that applies in any city even in Toronto.
Although I am sure there are racist cops just as there are rasist people in business and unfortuneately it is a part of life.
I am a white male so maybe I don’t have the same perspective but I know several black people here in Toronto and they are law abiding citizens and they don’t seem to be getting shot at…
Obviously this is going to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but as a gernal rule yes a police officer must account for the firing of non-lethal rounds. In fact, as a general rule the police need to account for most everything they do. If I draw my nightstick and use it to subdue a suspect, it needs to be in my report. If I use pepper spray, must be in my report. If I were to use a non-lethal round in crowd control, how many I fired, why I fired it, etc, needs to be in my report.
Thanks, Glitch.
I went to school at UC for 6 years (“The Six Year Plan”) and lived off-campus for most of those years. And UC, of course, is just north of Over-the-Rhine.
My experience with the police force was mostly positive. The crime is the real problem. I was assaulted on a number of occasions, my apartment got broken into twice (once while my girlfriend was there alone!), my car’s front window was smashed, etc. etc. etc.
There are two areas of Cincinnati a rational-thinking person would not venture into: Over-the-Rhine and Avondale. (I actually delivered pizza in Avondale (stupid me) for a while, and was scared shitless on every pizza run. Needless to say, I didn’t do that for very long.) The people who live in Over-the-Rhine and Avondale prey on the more-affluent UC students, and the crime is very high around campus. Am I ever glad to be back in Dayton.