RE: Under no circumstance should cops KILL
January 5, 2018 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2018 at 5:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There needs to be five unarmed officers there telling Dirty Harry to calm the fuck down with waving his piece around.
Can anyone honestly tell me this doesn't sound like a highly preferable alternative to what currently happens? Where, one officer responds "my partner had his gun out, so I pulled mine." and the other says "I had my gun out, and when my partner pulled his too I took that as a que to fire". Was the suspect actually armed. No, but they both "feared for their lives".
I actually believe them. I do....but does it matter? The unarmed peace officers present in most large metropolitan cities aren't getting shot and killed at a greater rate than their armed police officer counterparts. The reverse is the case, even though they respond to the same callboard and make arrests and the whole nine. It's almost as if the presence of a firearm..and getting into a gunfight..is a strong indicator of whether or not someone...anyone...is going to get shot, but the crushing majority of the time that's not going to be the cop anyway, so?
Can anyone honestly tell me this doesn't sound like a highly preferable alternative to what currently happens? Where, one officer responds "my partner had his gun out, so I pulled mine." and the other says "I had my gun out, and when my partner pulled his too I took that as a que to fire". Was the suspect actually armed. No, but they both "feared for their lives".
I actually believe them. I do....but does it matter? The unarmed peace officers present in most large metropolitan cities aren't getting shot and killed at a greater rate than their armed police officer counterparts. The reverse is the case, even though they respond to the same callboard and make arrests and the whole nine. It's almost as if the presence of a firearm..and getting into a gunfight..is a strong indicator of whether or not someone...anyone...is going to get shot, but the crushing majority of the time that's not going to be the cop anyway, so?
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