1.   Forensic experts said that the use of hollow points entailed a trade-off.

2.   Hollow points flatten on impact and expand.

3.   In that same period, officers in the Transit Bureau, who already used the hollow points, struck six bystanders.

4.   Intimidation and violence are as American as hollow points and ammonium nitrate.

5.   The bullets cause less damage than hollow point bullets, which expand when they enter a body, he said.

6.   The hollow point type rarely ricochets or passes through a body or other object, thus lessening the possibility of hitting anyone other than the target, Safir said.

7.   The New York City Police Department began a switch to hollow point bullets last March, about a month after the Diallo shooting.

8.   The weapon was loaded with deadly hollow point bullets that explode on impact.

9.   U.S. Attorney Faith S. Hochberg said the five men were shot with Black Talon bullets, which are hollow point and strong enough to pierce armor.

10.   Both weapons were stolen, both had been fired and both held a combination of hollow point and regular bullets, the district attorney said.