We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct

Re:We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct by self_awareness on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:36AM (#23524423)

The only point I was trying to make is that you've written it yourself: the police is allowed to use violence. How can you enforce the law for parties that ale not cooperating? You can do it only by using violence. And in some videos, I see a lot of people that are not cooperating. That's all.

No more input from me, since I've already lost lots of karma for the original post ;p

Also I don't want to get into the how-women-should-behave territory, sorry ;)

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Re:We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct by deathanatos on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:51AM (#23524506)

The police are allowed the reasonable use of force when there is probable cause to support it. They are not allowed the unlimited use of force whenever they feel like it. That distinction is critical to this entire issue, and a lot of the outcry is over excessive use of force.

Even framing it as you are — as violence — is already the wrong mindset I would want an officer to have. They should be using force, not violence, as a means of last resort to de-escalate a situation and ideally to cease any violence that's occurring.

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