Re:Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Pr...
by scarface74 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:40PM
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I don’t disagree with you, but there have been way too many incidents where cops overreacted and shot an unarmed minority. They signed up to put themselves in danger, I didn’t sign up to be shot because the cop got nervous because of the complexion of my skin or because I “fit the description”.
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Re:Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Pr...
by loveyourmother on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:53PM
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How many of those incidents could have been resolved by the offender just complying or not fleeing? Here is a link to show the breakdown of all police shootings. You can filter by race, if they had a weapon, mental illness, fleeing. In all of 2017 22 individuals were killed that were reported to be unarmed and not fleeing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
Re:Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Pr...
by scarface74 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:55PM
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Baked into the statistics is an assumption that cops never lie....
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-car...
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/courtroom-files/st-louis-cop-...
Re:Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Pr...
by Audible_logic on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:59PM
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Because we know police statistic to be above question. Also, how does someone fleeing place the cops life in danger and require lethal force? I find this "comply in order to live..." logic dangerous.
Re:Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Pr...
by anonnyj on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:28AM
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It's more like "Given the unlikely to change current state of things, you happen to be more likely to live if you comply, and as such, complying is a very good idea".
I won't mind-read and suggest where you went wrong.