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Topic	Protesting in Pittsburgh over Black Teen shot by Cop
Corrik 06/25/18 7:51:38 AM #133:	Inviso posted... Maybe, just maybe, we think that if a police officer is going to be tasked with the responsibility of shooting/killing bad guys, maybe just maybe s/he should be held to just a little bit of a higher standard when a weapon is discharged and a person is killed. You seem to hold the opinion that the police are 100% above the law, which is what leads certain communities (you'll complain that I'm making this about race, but whatever) to become instinctively fearful for their own lives when confronted by a police officer. And that agitation leads to the police becoming more trigger happy for their own safety, which leads to the public becoming more fearful of police, which just continues a downward spiral that is going to make things worse and worse. Police hold a LOT of power under the current police vs. public dynamic, and they need more accountability, rather than finding every single justification possible to absolve them of all guilt. It is simple. Cops are not robots. They have to do their job with the information they have at hand. If they are given faulty information, where the faulty information came in is the issue. If they are given limited information, they have to make reasonable decisions based on the information at hand. The problem is that everyone wants perfection from cops and it is unrealistic. They are humans operating the best they can with the information provided. Usually. There is bad cops out there. Do not think there isn't. --- LoL ID = imajericho XBL GT = Corrik <cite>Corrik posted [p:903919929] in Protesting... [t:76746567]...</cite> <quote><cite>Inviso posted...</cite> <quote>Maybe, just maybe, we think that if a police officer is going to be tasked with the responsibility of shooting/killing bad guys, maybe just maybe s/he should be held to just a little bit of a higher standard when a weapon is discharged and a person is killed. You seem to hold the opinion that the police are 100% above the law, which is what leads certain communities (you'll complain that I'm making this about race, but whatever) to become instinctively fearful for their own lives when confronted by a police officer. And that agitation leads to the police becoming more trigger happy for their own safety, which leads to the public becoming more fearful of police, which just continues a downward spiral that is going to make things worse and worse. Police hold a LOT of power under the current police vs. public dynamic, and they need more accountability, rather than finding every single justification possible to absolve them of all guilt.</quote> It is simple. Cops are not robots. They have to do their job with the information they have at hand. If they are given faulty information, where the faulty information came in is the issue. If they are given limited information, they have to make reasonable decisions based on the information at hand. The problem is that everyone wants perfection from cops and it is unrealistic. They are humans operating the best they can with the information provided. Usually. There is bad cops out there. Do not think there isn't. --- LoL ID = imajericho XBL GT = Corrik</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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