It is people shooting again, not hunting. I agree you should not shoot anyone behind the creep but in most cases it is another creep anyway. I have no guns to carry but my hunting guns are good for 5 creeps in a row. They will shoot through a house and take out an engine block. Why would a cop put himself in the line of fire?
If you'd ever spent any time on the street, you'd know there's a LOT of times when you'd have one guy directly behind a perp, purposefully or not. Chit happens on the street, it's never clinical. And when on the street, there's rarely a time where you can say "I'll never do this or that".
And you have to understand, it's almost always the other guy's decision on when you start the dance, so anything can happen.
