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by barrow-rider on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:44AM
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> Exactly. I've read a story about a US police officer (a former marine) who managed to defuse an armed situation, and got reprimanded or fired for it.
Citation needed. I can't think of any peaceful fix that would get a reprimand unless other stuff fucked up badly behind the scenes.
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by cmpb on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:30AM
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Wow, what a travesty. Thanks for posting that
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by wallace_f on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:04AM
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Is it really strange? Has anything killed more people than authoritarian power structures?
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by ceejayoz on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:16AM
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It is strange that the US military in Iraq/Afghanistan has stricter use-of-force rules than American cops do.
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by coldtea on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:59AM
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Well, bad use of force in a foreign land and in a war situation can have bad repercussions (diplomatic but also making enemies out of friendlier locals, etc), so army guys have to be more careful and professional about it. You don't mess with such things.
While cops can kill citizens with relative impunity (especially black ones).
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by mcv on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:07PM
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You would think, though, that killing your own citizens is even worse. And yet they're getting away with it. I'm absolutely baffled that this is allowed to go on in the US. Any other country would revolt over this.
So not only are (at least some) US police officers insufficiently trained to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations, they are actively punished when they do de-escalate. They are expected to shoot people.
Equally bizarre is that law enforcement experts warn people not to talk to the police without a lawyer. Not even as a witness or to help them. The American attitude towards police and police work is utterly alien to me.