COMMENT The latest outrage concerning the shooting death of Aminulrasyid Amzah and the petulant response of inspector-general of police Musa Hassan harkens back to a similar episode in 1996.

This had to do with alarming reports from NGOs that deaths in shootouts with police over the preceding 18 months was something like 35 which prompted senior member of the Bar and president of Human Rights Society (Hakam) Raja Aziz Addruse, to suggest that cops had become “trigger-happy”...