Columbus Police Shooting

[Anomalocaris]

Really?    You think at least 350,001 out of about 700,000 police officers in the country is no good?

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It is one thing to extrapolate from too small a sample, another to extrapolate from a sample of, zero?

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What about the first rule of attempting to serve a misdeameaner warrant in the presence of a knife wielder in the process of charging an unarmed person?

1. How often do do-called ‘good’ cops rat out the bad ones? How often do you see the headline ‘Patrolman Accuses Desk Sergeant Of Accepting Bribes’?  Any cop who knowingly  allows police corruption is a de facto bad cop. 

2. Is it necessary to personally know someone to know if they’re a criminal?

3. Yes, that’s an excellent point. Police have no means other than gunfire to subdue a knife wielder.

Boru

1. Good cop’s overriding concern is not to advance the correct ideology de jour or enforce the ideal social norm of the day.  it is to ensure the police force can function effectively in routine law enforcement, even in cases of threats to life and limb.     The latter requires an work environment where fear of being ratted out by one’s fellow cops do not dominate most professional collaborations.   So ratting out rightly does not occur nearly as often as would be the case if the primary common purpose of all policemen is to advance the social norm de jour rather than routine law enforcement.

2. so police who appreciative the importance of esprit de corps in their organization more than an outsider are criminals now?

3. A judgment call has to be made based on how severe is the threat and how effective is each available mode of restraint in mitigating that threat.