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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by abledon on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:22AM (#18582027)
yeah this is not good. Being a police officer, putting your life on the line to protect citizens... the guy showing up at your place at 3 am to deal with a crazed meth addict neighbour next door.. doing this dangerous task for many years. To have armchair 'law enforcement' experts in each living room of the nation linking to an officers behaviour on twitter, not having the context of the case, the background and previous actions of the offender on file... seems like a recipe for misunderstanding. I do think those new axon body cams are a good idea though, a cop can not worry about getting skewered on public media if he has real time video proof of being provoked. Southland (Cop show) had a good episode clip of this .
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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by InclinedPlane on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:02PM (#18584857)
Are you saying that cops are and should be thugs? I think police officers are better than that and should be held to a higher standard than that. There are plenty of good cops out there, but they are very much not advantaged by systems which protect the worst offenders, encourage silence, and discourage accountability. If you think cops are thugs then by all means, encourage a lack of accountability, and they'll become exactly that. Our communities should have higher standards, and the police themselves should have higher standards as well.
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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by catacombs on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:01PM (#18583484)
Are you a cop?
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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by abledon on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:19PM (#18583590)
No but I think a lot of people take for granted law enforcement in modern society — things can get ugly fast when there is no one to uphold the law
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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by catacombs on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:56PM (#18584822)
Of course. We all should be thankful there are people -- law enforcement included -- who will put their lives on the line to protect society.

However, as cliched as this is, with great power comes great responsibility. And there are those, especially in law enforcement, who take their power for granted and use it to harm and, in some cases, kill people.

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Re:How we built the largest database of police use of force ... by abledon on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:54PM (#18585094)
Yes that’s great . I don’t know how I came off as suggesting they should be thugs in the prev post . We should rather have a separate org, a police watchdog that has access to the footage and actively monitors rather than give public access to officers actions and personal info. That org should also have access to offender info and police info so they can interpret each case accordingly
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