Teach Cops to Maim?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^This. Cops can be effective cops without guns if they have the trust of the communities they’re supposed to serve.

Of course, as long as cops continue to use guns as the response of choice in situations that don’t require them, it’s going to be pretty difficult to engender that trust.

Boru

You are one delusional dude.


Exactly how many UNJUSTIFIED shootings do you suppose happen in the US per year? You act as it were an hourly occurance. Do you think that cops draw down on every traffic stop?

It’s difficult to tell how many unjustified shootings happen per year, since (for reasons which should be embarrassingly obvious), unjustified shootings are rarely reported - there’s not enough of a database to draw a conclusion. 

But what number are YOU willing to accept? 500? 50? 2? At what point does the number of times police shoot an unarmed or fleeing suspect (and the word is ‘suspect’, not ‘perp’) become acceptable to you?

Boru