Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c...
by swombat on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:19AM
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I think this political escalation process is itself specific to the US... I think if it happened in the U.K. there would be no such outcry... just tributes to the innocent bystander and a nice funeral. Shit happens. It doesn’t have to always be someone’s fault.
Americans seems to be perpetually caught in a victim-aggressor-rescuer drama triangle...
Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c...
by vidarh on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:17PM
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Notably after most UK police shootings - and there's rarely more than one a year, sometimes years without - police ends up having to apologize and face demands for tighter rules, but the opposite rarely happens. There are occasional demands for police to be more regularly armed, but they've not gotten very far.
The reason for this is simple. It just takes one situation (or at least one believably plausible situation) for people of power to justify a quicker resolution that ultimately gives them more power and meets their KPI goals (more arrests, less bad guys living).
In this case, imagine a real armed gunman shoots a hostage or a stray bullet hits an innocent bystander. Imagine the outcry of the public and SJW's: "OMG they should have just run in there and killed the SOB! Or better, shoot him in the leg! Do something police!"
Solution? A more swift resolution to the problem - i.e. SWAT style infiltration.