UN Peacekeepers

[Elegiac]

Why should death penalty be banned if there are video proof, genetic info.

Because it's hugely unethical?

[Kellhound]

Because it's hugely unethical?

Ethics are in the eye of the beholder.

[Dreknar20]

lol UN peacekeepers?
This is a perfect example of over-exaggerating something

[Budong]

Would never work, our police forces are far more heavily armed

[Frostweaver]

UN peacekeepers are useless, they only observe the crimes and do nothing about it.. We had our share of UN peace keepers in balkans when Serbs were killing people left and right.

[Dreknar20]

The comments and views of this thread do nothing to make you seem brave or strong, only insane.

yeah, its totally normal for people to be calm and all non-chalant when a foreign power interferes. That's totally what normally happens........

[Elegiac]

yeah, its totally normal for people to be calm and all non-chalant when a foreign power interferes. That's totally what normally happens........

So you don't care if American soldiers get blown up in Afghanistan, then?

[Dreknar20]

So you don't care if American soldiers get blown up in Afghanistan, then?

Care? Course I do. I am American.
Surprised? You have to have the outlook of a 5 year old who watches Seasame Street and cartoons to be surprised. And there are plenty of ppl like those and they are definitely not 5......

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UN Peacekeepers

Are they not a foreign power? Hell calling the UN a 'power' is being super generous........

[bufferunderrun]

or maybe you need to start punish severely any policeman/woman who go overboard and at the same time invest more money and effort into training, and why not using FBI to check, investigate the normal police? From what i know the FBI is way more trained and professional than the normal police also have jurisdiction over the entire USA i don't see any problem giving them this job.

[Bolson13]

Depends on which nationality said peacekeepers are.

You can't trust the Dutch, for instance, vis a vis Srebrenica.

Yeah, that case is more that you can't trust Americans, French and British because they only care about realpolitik.

They were all supposed to provide air support in case of an emergency. Dutchbat held out for a few days but didn't have any supplies and all the time those 3 ignored any distress call. In the end the Dutch themselves had to fly their own F16's over....


http://www.france24.com/en/20150709-...france-clinton
You can see exactly why NATO or any cooperation between countries military wise is a joke.

[Vilendor]

No need to send Peacekeepers, but we could/should send some police training officers to teach new techniques.
USA cops never try to de-escalate the problem, their one and only response is pull a gun, threaten and intimidate the suspect...

[Dispraise]

Is this like a "what if we built our houses out of baby teeth" hypothetical? Or is this something you believe would ever actually happen?

[Notchris]

No need to send Peacekeepers, but we could/should send some police training officers to teach new techniques.
USA cops never try to de-escalate the problem, their one and only response is pull a gun, threaten and intimidate the suspect...

I hope you realize that isn't correct. At all.

[Daerio]

I hope you realize that isn't correct. At all.

Seems pretty spot-on to me, which part did you have issue with? The reality part?

[Notchris]

Seems pretty spot-on to me, which part did you have issue with? The reality part?

USA cops never try to de-escalate the problem, their one and only response is pull a gun, threaten and intimidate the suspect...

Do you really believe that American police ONLY pull guns and never EVER try to de-escalate a situation? Because that was the claim.

You'd have to be a damn idiot to believe that.

[Daerio]

Do you really believe that American police ONLY pull guns and never EVER try to de-escalate a situation? Because that was the claim.

You'd have to be a damn idiot to believe that.

I quite honestly almost never see a police officer on camera actively de-escalating a situation, that's a fact. They respond to verbal resistance and questions with physical / overwhelming force. And sometimes it's obvious that the reason they're fucking with somebody is hurt cop ego, which escalates the situation.

Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it isn't much of one. Maybe police are de-escalating situations just by being there, when they're not actually arresting/beating anyone? Like, if they're just walking down the street. Maybe that's what you meant.

[Notchris]

I quite honestly almost never see a police officer on camera actively de-escalating a situation, that's a fact. They respond to verbal resistance and questions with physical / overwhelming force.

Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it isn't much of one. Maybe police are de-escalating situations just by being there, when they're not actually arresting/beating anyone? Like, if they're just walking down the street. Maybe that's what you meant.

So, because you never see a video of it, it must not happen. K.

[Daerio]

So, because you never see a video of it, it must not happen. K.

So I should assume it happens most of the time, even though I never see it?

Is this physics?

[Notchris]

So I should assume it happens most of the time, even though I never see it?

Is this physics?

Oh no, your logic is watertight! You don't see videos of it, so therefore it doesn't happen. I'm sure you watch video of the 10 million+ arrests that happen every year.

Watertight.

[Vilendor]

I hope you realize that isn't correct. At all.

Cops In Britain And New Zealand Don't Carry Guns
German Police Used Only 85 Bullets (49 was warning shots) Against People in 2011
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2014 (623 dead)
Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations
By the numbers: US police kill more in days than other countries do in years