09-25-2016, 09:06 PM
Yeah, good one, Cars.
Even police chiefs and union heads across the country are admitting now that officers need more training in de-escalation, recognizing/handling citizens with disabilities, and other tactics that will reduce police killings of citizens.
Over the course of less than 2 years, several cases have been posted in this and other threads where such training could have saved a life, a police officer's career, and a PD or city government from paying out millions of dollars in civil suit settlements for wrongful death.
We've seen video of an officer shooting to death a naked crouching young black man in a parking lot. The young man was a veteran who fought for our country and came back with PTSD. He obviously had no weapon, wasn't threatening anybody, but was unable to respond to 'PO' commands. After a while, the cop just shot him fucking dead. That cop is charged with murder. As it should be.
Just a couple of months back, we watched cops shoot a man who was trying to help his mentally disabled client up out of the street. The unarmed man worked as a caregiver at a group home. He was black, so he was smart and put his hands up in the air when cops rolled up, as he sat in the street with the very large disabled boy he was trying to protect and coax out of the street. The caregiver told the cops repeatedly what was happening. Still, he was shot right there in the street by a cop (thankfully his disabled client wasn't) for supposedly not following commands and posing a threat (later proven false by witness cell video). The caregiver fortunately wasn't killed and his disabled client was unharmed, but the cop who shot the caregiver is paying some serious consequences. As it should be.
Then there are the people in wheelchairs who were shot because they didn't follow "PO" orders. And, the schizophrenic man who was beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of cops who knew the man had a mental condition and took turns kicking and puching him while he was fully subdued, dying, and crying out for his dad. And the children who were shot to death by cops for committing the crime of being tall/large for their ages and bearing toy guns when the gung-ho cops approached them in a manner which was incorrect and outside policy. Not to mention all of the unarmed bystanders who were shot to death or killed in police car chases because they were taken completely off-guard by 'PO' orders and had no opportunity to react quickly enough to save their own lives.
It's doesn't bother me that you, Cars, are apathetic about it all and figure those people and others like them had it coming. But, fortunately a growing number of people across the country, including many good cops and city officials, do give a shit and are affecting change when it comes to community policing and criminal justice.
Even police chiefs and union heads across the country are admitting now that officers need more training in de-escalation, recognizing/handling citizens with disabilities, and other tactics that will reduce police killings of citizens.
Over the course of less than 2 years, several cases have been posted in this and other threads where such training could have saved a life, a police officer's career, and a PD or city government from paying out millions of dollars in civil suit settlements for wrongful death.
We've seen video of an officer shooting to death a naked crouching young black man in a parking lot. The young man was a veteran who fought for our country and came back with PTSD. He obviously had no weapon, wasn't threatening anybody, but was unable to respond to 'PO' commands. After a while, the cop just shot him fucking dead. That cop is charged with murder. As it should be.
Just a couple of months back, we watched cops shoot a man who was trying to help his mentally disabled client up out of the street. The unarmed man worked as a caregiver at a group home. He was black, so he was smart and put his hands up in the air when cops rolled up, as he sat in the street with the very large disabled boy he was trying to protect and coax out of the street. The caregiver told the cops repeatedly what was happening. Still, he was shot right there in the street by a cop (thankfully his disabled client wasn't) for supposedly not following commands and posing a threat (later proven false by witness cell video). The caregiver fortunately wasn't killed and his disabled client was unharmed, but the cop who shot the caregiver is paying some serious consequences. As it should be.
Then there are the people in wheelchairs who were shot because they didn't follow "PO" orders. And, the schizophrenic man who was beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of cops who knew the man had a mental condition and took turns kicking and puching him while he was fully subdued, dying, and crying out for his dad. And the children who were shot to death by cops for committing the crime of being tall/large for their ages and bearing toy guns when the gung-ho cops approached them in a manner which was incorrect and outside policy. Not to mention all of the unarmed bystanders who were shot to death or killed in police car chases because they were taken completely off-guard by 'PO' orders and had no opportunity to react quickly enough to save their own lives.
It's doesn't bother me that you, Cars, are apathetic about it all and figure those people and others like them had it coming. But, fortunately a growing number of people across the country, including many good cops and city officials, do give a shit and are affecting change when it comes to community policing and criminal justice.