What I would like to see is a federal guideline as to what police training must be nationwide.
While the states can apply some of their own structures on an as needed basis. But the framework should be set by the lawmakers.
I mean, the success of other countries is not that they're vastly different. That would be a nonsense. That would imply that Americans are generally more primitive, that they're a society of savages. Which they are not. Absolutely not.
The success of other countries is based on much better training.
You get a better cop when you train them 2 or 3 years instead of 12 weeks or 8 month.
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Remember when all the liberals were cheering Levoy Finnicum getting shot because he had a gun in his pocket? How they said it was acceptable for the police to open fire on the vehicle because it was a "threat". Funny how that changes
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I agree that police officers should have longer training periods than they do in the US, absolutely. I also think that the success of other countries is also because they aren't steeped in gun culture like the US is, where police officers pretty much have to assume that whoever they're dealing with has a gun on them. Once people are said or expected to be carrying guns the response escalates very quickly because it only takes a second or two for people to start dying.
Like I said before, the problem isn't with the police force. It is inherent to the culture of the US and it won't change until such a time that people can be expected to not be armed with a gun when police are called to deal with them. As it stands now, US police pretty much have to assume anyone they deal with is carrying.
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I'm not doubting the media is showing this on an INTERNET based form, but I have NOT seen this ANYWHERE on any single news media on TV anywhere. I guess I need to start combing mmo-c.com for news articles about white people dying?
The fact stands: This shit isn't on any major tv media anywhere. It was posted low key on fucking YAHOO?? who the fuck goes to yahoo news..
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Yahoo News is a news aggregate. The article is from AP (Associated Press).
I've seen it on TV too btw.
There's a TV network link
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...police-n609401
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...police-n609401
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/us/fre...deo/index.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...apes/87067968/
I don't know what to tell you my dude, this has been widely reported.
What's going to be interesting is how quickly it disappears now that its a suicide by cop. This whole case caught on when we got a partial mobile phone video of him being shot already on the ground, it didn't have any of this beginning part.
Yeah but you said innocent or hands up no? Neither one in either case were that. I grant you there is some suspicion about the way the situations went down, but they are nothing like 100% guilty police shooting videos (which are actually rare) and not necessarily the one in this thread.
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Old response, but no - if this was a black man I'd be saying the same thing. Not everyone is unobjective about the difficult job that police do and the right they have to make it home to their families. In the case of some (not all) of the publicized police shootings, though, you don't have a situation that is nearly as cut and dried as this one.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdfIn 2011, over 62.9 million U.S. residents age 16 or older, or 26% of the population, had one or more contacts with police during the prior 12 months (figure 1). For about half (49%) of persons experiencing contact with police, the most recent contact was involuntary or police-initiated. In 2011, 86% of persons involved in traffic stops during their most recent contact with police and 66% of persons involved in street stops (i.e., stopped in public but not in a moving vehicle) believed that the police both behaved properly and treated them with respect during the contact. A greater percentage of persons involved in street stops (25%) than those pulled over in traffic stops (10%) believed the police had not behaved properly. Regardless of the reason for the stop, less than 5% of persons who believed the police had not behaved properly filed a complaint.
Put aside all that information and lets focus on the total number of Police vs Public encounters. 62 million, and how many of those 62 million resulted in deaths? A few hundred? What is percentage on that?
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