AFAIK every legit self-defense instructor will tell you to RUN as far away from any guy with a knife. You can disarm him if you're a better fighter, but you'll most likely be injured in the attempt. There's also no guarantee that the knife-wielding guy is a worse fighter than you. I'm not sure if they teach the same for police officers, or Japanese police officers to be exact though.
Yes, because knife fights
suck. If you try to engage, you're going to get cut in some way. I admitted Father cop here is at a disadvantage compared to a normal cop that has a baton, knife resistant clothes/gear, and pepper spray because he was too stupid to grab a weapon or some gear while tricking the kid.
Next to tasers or pepper spray, which are still risky if they don't work (especially if the suspect is on drugs), I think guns and keeping distance is still the best and safest.
So is shooting at the person with an air to surface missile. Doesn't make the person doing it less of a bitch for using unnecessary levels of force considering once again that every police force across the entire planet has been able to deal with little shits using bladed weapons for centuries without needing guns. Other people even pointed out how easily that's going to kill other people to you. It's almost like you want there to be random dead bodies because you think police should be psychopaths who don't care about collateral damage.
I'm just expecting the author to BS that the police can't find any DNA evidence, or more believable, that their ringleader (or his dad?) will pull some strings.
Probably some other form of bullshit. Japan normally upon finding proof of one crime likes to pile on extra crimes to frame a person with so if the writer is willing to make a gamble this kid might be framed for all of the crimes.