Experts, law enforcement groups, and the US Department of Justice recommend that police be banned from shooting at people in moving vehicles. These shootings are particularly ineffective and dangerous, since shooting the driver can make the vehicle an uncontrollable threat to both officers and the public.

Despite this, most police departments continue to allow officers to shoot people in these situations.

In many countries, police routinely disarm people who have knives without shooting them.

In the United Kingdom, a country of 67 million people where police encounter knife attacks at a similar rate as US police, police fatally shot 3 people in 2022, 2 of whom allegedly had knives.

In Los Angeles County, with a population of 10 million, law enforcement officers fatally shot 12 people allegedly armed with knives in 2022.