BoxingRobes
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Are you suggesting there hasn't been reform? Did you see the restraint those two officers showed with that guy trying so desperately trying to commit "suicide by Cop", they were begging him. That happens an awful lot in those police shooting statistics, I know of a couple in my small town.
Reform? You mean like dash and vest cameras, more training protocols - been staedily increasing in an steadily decreasing environment. I have a son who is a FF/Paramedic. They go through Nracan (opioid overdose reversal) like aspirin some shifts. The people lying unconsicence, sometimes not even breathing when they arrived, wake-up wanting to fight because they ruined their buzz.
You're right, they have a job and they need to do that job for Public Safety (us) - you can't very often coddle criminally violent, drugged or mentally ill people (Partcilularly not knowing which or what combination) into a completely safe conclusion every time. If you're going to go there, you're going to have people throw it right back at you, that most of these shootings start after "noncompliance." It's the chicken and egg argument; you want to be a lawyer go to law school, otherwise why make it worse, and maybe endanger yourself by trying it during a high risk situation?
Again, I'm not in their shoes, but not so sure I'd have let that guy in the "Suicide by Cop" video get that close to me.
Not at all...but I would suggest there needs to be more, in particular to what I mentioned in the post about being held accountable for misconduct or fvck ups as well as protocol in nonviolent situations. I am aware its very difficult in these high risk situations to assess, but that is what they are being paid to do and the trends in the past ten years are not great.