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anyone opposed to this will cite racism because they are race baiters to begin with. This is actually a good idea, if the white cop doesn't go into that area, he/she cant kill anyone, right? No one gets hurt except for the victim that originally called for the police to start with.
terrible idea as this will lead to more cop deaths, as if their job isnt already dangerous enough.
Knife girl wasn't attacking the cop. He's at more risk shooting her than doing the least possible and getting the heck back in his car.
Increased scrutiny. Less overall funding in cities. So they desperately try to ramp up their arrest numbers. And since racial profiling in a PR disaster. And stop and frisk is against the 4th amendment, they now have to actually find a crime in progress.
Their duty isn't shooting black criminals. It's arresting them.
Their duty is to eliminate or neutralize the threat. It is so easy for us to sit here and judge, what should've could've happened, nowadays, even giving police officers benefit of the doubt is unacceptable.
Their duty is to eliminate or neutralize the threat. It is so easy for us to sit here and judge, what should've could've happened, nowadays, even giving police officers benefit of the doubt is unacceptable.
We have a problem with a few police officers and a problem with heightened anger and one of triggered citizen perception.
More often than not, there is no real threat of the kind that needs a weapon drawn. officers need to assess the situation without escalating it. They are not on the streets of Fallujah or Kandahar. We have way too many guns and way too many dangerous drugs and way too much anger in the community so they should error on the side of caution. The world will not end if some guy passes a fake $20 or a shop-lifter runs away.
But --- In spite of the uproar, I have yet to see anything that tells me the police in Columbus were totally wrong -- the girl was armed and attacking -- but maybe a taser would have worked. They didn't have the time to assess as it was happening as they arrived.
We have seen things before where one place gets sick and we all take the medicine. Not every town or city has chronic policing problems. Some people are quick to assume their police are at fault because they saw an incident somewhere else and got alerted to the problem and are ready and primed to point fingers.
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