Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f...
by kelnos on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:48PM
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> So you're saying that more police presence is harming people. How?
If the police were trained well, then I might agree with you. But they're not. They're trained to expect every encounter to result in an attempt on their lives. They're trained to escalate instead of de-escalate, meaning that a run-of-the-mill interaction is more likely to result in violence than it needs to be.
Labeling what's going on now as "the current hysteria" is painfully dismissive of the real harm that police are doing to people.
If the police were trained well, then I might agree with you. But they're not. They're trained to expect every encounter to result in an attempt on their lives. They're trained to escalate instead of de-escalate, meaning that a run-of-the-mill interaction is more likely to result in violence than it needs to be.
Labeling what's going on now as "the current hysteria" is painfully dismissive of the real harm that police are doing to people.