120 shots, no one dead

Los Angeles has been pretty quiet of late-we've had very few police excess stories. Until now. An amateur videotaped police in Compton firing between 90 and 120 shots into a vehicle they had been in a high speed chase with. The implication is that police exercised excessive force, and you know what, 120 shots leave them very vulnerable to that charge. But one has to ask one question-were these officers extremely responsible, extremely incompetent, or extremely lucky? Any time 120 shots are fired in a short time and in a concentrated area, you have to expect high casualities and fatalities. In this case, a deputy and the suspect were wounded, and no one died. I'm not prepared to exonerate these officers yet, because 120 shots fired is a lot, but it seems that they concentrated their fire on the vehicle, otherwise there would have been many more vicitims in this urban area. It would seem that they were over reacted but responsible with their actions, and I have sympathy with that-police officers want to go home at the end of the day as much as you and I, only they face more danger than most of us. If they were not responsible, then one has to assume that they are keystone cops who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn in target practice or extremely lucky. And no one is that lucky to fill a tight area with 120 shots and not end up with more casualities.