FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"

Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:19PM (#10354226)

First: I agree that the police are, in too many ways, broken.

But you said, "Why would I approve of, say, the LAPD any more than I would approve of the MVSN?" My reply is that you would approve of the LAPD and not the MVSN, because despite the brokenness, the LAPD is still a net positive, and the MVSN were not.

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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by vezzy-fnord on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:25PM (#10354289)

Actually your comment didn't state they were a net positive, but merely that their absence wouldn't translate to a decrease in crime rates.

It may well be that some paramilitaries are more efficient than others, but their incentives are by definition always stacked against community building, and in favor of adversarial enforcement.

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