My point would be having one case increasing to 2-3 per year is still just that 2-3 per year. That's nothing compared to the toll of gun violence - from a societal perspective. It's obviously still a tragedy to the involved families either way.

 

And how much more so with guns? I *never* said anyone should be let off after ramming someone with their car, but there's no way the impact on society is even close to the impact gun (or knife) violence makes, and the same similar argument applies there: Why shouldn't a criminal use a gun if no big deal is made about doing so?

 

Let's see, there are roughly 1 million police officers in the US, and roughly 8 million young male members of a certain race, so to make things equivalent, we need to multiply the crimes committed by the police by 8 to make things equivalent. After doing so, do "the police" commit anywhere NEAR the amount of robberies, murders, and rapes as the young male members of a certain race? NO!

If you want to be fair, and you disparage "the police" based on the behaviors of a few of them, then by that same token you should be a raging racist when it comes to the young male portion of a certain race. If you are NOT willing to condemn the young males of a certain race, then in the interest of fairness you have no right to criticize the police based on the actions of a few of their members.

Yeah, you should probably go inside and hydrate -- or at least be consistent.

 

It's a terrible thing when some nutjob acts out. No argument here.

It's nice the article said the suspect was a "white" man. Since there's no evidence I can see this had anything to do with race, we needed to know his race because...

 

The Dwarves are acting up in England.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/man-proposal-haunted-hillside-victim-folklore

 

Those trained professionals didn't come from the moon, they are your next-door neighbors. The point is that you are SAFE with a police officer compared to a random person you meet on the street -- especially when compared with certain subgroups of our population. There is NO justification for saying things like "the police are bad", "ACAB", etc.

 

What baloney. Well, let me make sure I have your POV correct. For example, say your car breaks down and for whatever reason you have to walk through a dark alley at night in the city and a couple of men start approaching you in said alley. You're going to react to them just the same as you would if it was a couple of police officers approaching you? I doubt it. At least I hope that's not the case.

Double baloney. The police don't walk up and randomly and beat up and kill innocent people as a common occurrence. Do they have to detain aggressive suspects? Absolutely. That's their job. When you look at all the incidents that make the news, in almost every case the people the police use violence on were people suspected of committing a crime who refuse to obey the legitimate authority of the police and/or out and out attacked the police.

The police HAVE to detain suspected criminals as part of their job. If some aggressive man doesn't want to be detained and fights them, what are they supposed to do? Let him go and perform more criminal acts against the public?

Personally, I'm thankful that the police are as professional as they are given what they face on a daily basis. Are there bad police officers? Of course, just like there are bad members of every other profession. Is the police force the CAUSE of the problems with the criminals they face? NO. Overwhelmingly, the fault lies in the criminals' behavior, not that of the police.

 

So you thought *people* were the only jerks out there? Here's a gibbon whose idea of fun is pushing turtles in to the water.



There's a video as well if you don't mind sitting through the ads

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/new...hing-sunbathing-turtles-into-pond/7735557002/

 

A case in point. A cop is just standing there doing his job when some sociopath comes up and shoots at him. The cop fires back and the "suspect" dies. That's not a cop using weapons on citizens, that's a cop defending his life from a violent criminal.

"
A woman in Michigan who authorities say shot at a Flint police officer at a traffic checkpoint during a parade on Juneteenth and was struck when the officer returned fire has since died at the hospital.

Michigan State Police is investigating following the officer-involved shooting that happened at approximately 2:14 p.m. Saturday in the city of Flint. Officials identified the woman as Briana Sykes, 19, of Flint.

A preliminary investigation revealed that an officer working a traffic point for the Juneteenth Celebration Parade "was fired upon by a lone occupant of a vehicle who drove up to him," the Flint Police Department said in a press release.

The officer returned fire, striking the suspect, who was transported to a local hospital, police said."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-police-officer-ambushed-juneteenth-parade-traffic-checkpoint