Police unions don’t allow rogue cops to be held responsible for their misdeeds. That needs to be addressed too.
We have had over 200 years to get this right. Apparently that isn’t long enough. Our refusing to treat the Confederate states as our enemy, defeated in war, is one of the biggest mistakes our government has ever made. As a result we continue to have mixed standards for how we behave towards our fellow men. Look at what passes as elections in North Carolina, for a good example.
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Right on.
And refusing to treat the Republican Party as our enemy, defeated at the ballot box in 2008, is one of the biggest mistakes the Democratic Party has ever made.
No democracy, no justice.
My son is not a cop, but he graduated an accredited police academy and he tells me the shoot/don’t shoot training just isn’t adequate. Ditto for de-escalation training. He also suggests that they both require refresher courses.
In the military, once one gets though initial training, virtually all training after that is refresher. Keep attacking those sandbags at the top of the hill and keep taking that fake knife from your buddy.
I didn’t know this, but we can be sure this occurs all over the US – especially with elective office DA’s.
You’re so right. Training is essential. And retrain and refresh. Good PDs do that.
In my small town in Silicon Valley years ago, I and another local elected were offered by the local PD video simulations (with activated guns, not real) of police incidents, one encountering a resident who may or may not be reaching for a gun. I did not shoot in my scenario and my video simulation revealed the resident was only reaching for a wallet for his id. The other person shot and “killed” the unarmed resident. Yikes.
It’s a tough call but in Stephon Clark’s case, twenty shots around a corner, literally in the dark— many offices against one young man is extreme and extremely deadly.
Few years back I worked with a man who had been a cop after coming out of the Air Force, He could not stand it after a couple of years and quit. He told me that a cop who kills someone achieves some sort of unspoken status.