@choiboyx012
Overly violent policing needs to be amended.
What does overly violent mean, and how should it be amended?
Sorry to use a cliche, but when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The LEO mentality in dealing with the public isn’t currently sustainable, especially for some specific segments in society. The militarization is the police materially seems to feed into its militarized mindset when dealing with the public. increased scrutiny in hiring also assist in this? I would think so.
Cops can still do their jobs without the incessant civilian death.
For the most part they do. Unless you think <1% of all police contacts is incessant
And that one percent is too high. This needs to be reduced. It will never be totally eliminated, that’s silly talk, but the current rate of it is unacceptable. I would surmise you would agree with this
Not every situation is a life & death one. We are discussing fantasy if thought so.
True, but every situation CAN be a life and death one. Such is the nature of the job. Not everyone is a criminal or a suspect, of course. But the job entails responding to calls for incidents where there is a "threat" "criminal" "aggressor" "violator" and you need to investigate, which means questioning, detaining parties, and possibly enforcing with warnings/citations/arrest. People don't naturally want to be detained, cited, or arrested so believe it or not people do run, resist, fight back, and yes even shoot. When it does get to that point, human error comes into play and is more pronounced in these incidents even for trained cops. Not to excuse gross incompetence (like the Minnesota female cop) or malice (man crawling in the hallway shooting). This isn't even getting into the many ambushes and surprise attacks on LEOs from "normal everyday" situations.
No one is saying that an LEO’s job is easy, but police have to do better. Simple as that. For too long, the judicial levers have been tilted in favor of LEOs being cleared of charges. This tilt needs to change.
This discussion is just like gun control. Nothing can be accomplished by only amending one side’s behavior, just like nothing can be accomplished through gun control by just focusing on one side of the issue. There needs to be active measures taken on both sides. But, the historical balance has favored LEO,
especially legally; more needs to be done there. The status quo isn’t acceptable.
There will always be a tug & pull in regards to the two different sides to this coin. The last thirty years has illuminated the challenges with policing in this country. It’s always a healthy argument to have for change & betterment, no matter how few incidents occur or how terrible they look to the public. Again, the status quo is not acceptable to many in this country. Betterment needs to be strived for.
Sorry for the funkiness here, your reply didn’t show up correctly in the reply for some reason.