RE: THE Gun Thread
June 14, 2022 at 12:54 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2022 at 1:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The point, along with qualified immunity, is to make police less accountable. From a completely practical standpoint police accountability would be a nightmare for our system. Quiet parts, out aloud and all. The coalition of authoritarians and institutionalists aren't wrong on this one. US police emphatically could not operate the way they currently operate under greater scrutiny. In more effective models, the paperwork for simply unholstering your taser (and not using it) is so onerous that it fosters a culture of procedural restraint out of pure work avoidance. Some cops are too lazy to taze you, but american cops are too lazy to make sure you're the perp before they shoot you. Gee, a real headscratcher there. We're several decades and a whole different workforce removed from anything even resembling restraint, let alone a culture of it, here. Not only that, the cop unions will never go for it unless they can get gaurantees of amnesty for past offenses if they agree to subject themselves to the rule of law they purport to uphold.
Paramilitary force..of occupation.
Paramilitary force..of occupation.
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