12-20-2014, 09:41 AM
(12-20-2014, 09:05 AM)Cutz Wrote: Yeah... people that ride motorcycles without a helmet should be alive to learn from their mistakes, kids that play on train tracks should be alive to learn from their mistakes, and kids that OD on drugs should be alive to learn from their mistakes. That doesn't mean I blame motorcycles, trains, or drugs for their death.
People -- including police officers -- are not mechanical. People have judgment and decision-making powers, unlike motorcycles and trains and cars.
Police officers are trained specifically in applying judgment and decision-making to avoid exerting fatal force unless their lives are truly on the line, unlike mechanical objects.
Your analogy would only be effective if police officers were comparable to mechanical objects (or toxic substances, like drugs). I think more highly of police officers, on the whole, than to characterize them in that way. I still think human cops are a better safety bet than robocops, myself.
We should keep the human cops and simply toss from duty the ones whose poor judgements and decisions (intentional or unintentional) are determined to cost lives, instead of protecting lives. IMO.