Current Events > Texas HS students must watch video on interacting with police to graduate

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Oh no a video during school hours, how horrible for them
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KingCrabCake posted...

TommyG663513 posted...

So what proof do you have that they don't routinely get off without punishment? I mean, you've offered me a single anecdote of when the cop was fairly justified. I can't really think of many high profile cases where a peace officer was convicted of anything. Sometimes they will lose their jobs, but even that seems rare. I believe I saw a statistic that peace officers kill around 1000 people every year give or take and a small percentage of those like 5% or less (if I recall correctly) even result in charges getting filed. That certainly is not a directly releasable statistic and a fact check is needed, but it doesn't imply peace officers are being charged with crimes for their killings. The implication I'm making is that stat has always seemed suspicious.

I guess I'm a bit confused. You accused me of saying some dumb shit, but haven't offered any sort of detailed well formed argument that really refutes anything I've said. Perhaps it would be advantageous of you to have something profound to say when criticizing someone's words as less than intelligent. I feel you've really missed on a great opportunity here. I feel it necessary to implore you to make another attempt at expressing some intelligence my way so I can understand why my words were dumb shit as you described.

You're extremely ignorant and incorrect about a serious subject. All while you ride your high horse. So pardon me if I decide to just laugh at your ignorance instead of leading you to water.

Ps you havent backed up any claim you made sooo shut the fuck up

You've cursed at me repeatedly and called me ignorant. I have offered a lot more evidence and general argument than you have. I'm sorry that your are so close minded and arrogant.

Clearly the peace officers are completely in the wrong and it is the fault of absolutely every other person.
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KingCrabCake posted...

TheBiggerWiggle posted...

Wow we really do live in a shit hole country, don't we? Instead of teaching our police officers to respect the community they serve and the civilians that reside in it, we focus on some kids and the nice things they can say to inflate cops' egos. Who thought of this shit?

The most insulting part is this is in Texas, where not even a month ago a cop was so fucked up on something that she entered the wrong apartment and murdered someone in cold blood. She was then given days to turn herself in while the police ran a smear campaign against the victim for a little bit of pot.

What do I know though? Clearly the kids need to be more respectful. This is all their fault..... There is no chance they'll be murdered if they're polite.....

Lmfao why are people still parroting this dumb ass post.

Police are trained.

This is just giving another tool to prevent deadly encounters.

Only on CE would a positive thing like this be met with such silly stupid ignorance

Yeah because clearly we are at the pinnacle of peace officer behavior and there will never ever be an improvement in their behavior. I guess peace officers have never ever changed their training methods before and it is impossible for that to ever happen.

Or we could just start convicting the ones who kill people of crimes. That'd be a start.
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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Oh no a video during school hours, how horrible for them

How horrible or not really isn't the question. It is how effective it is and whether or not this is an example of law enforcement attempting to skirt responsibility for wrongful killings.
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This is fucking propaganda. Thankfully minority parents will have had enoughh with their child in their development to show them how things like this are complete bullshit
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EpicKingdom_ posted...

I can teach you in five seconds.

Step 1) Don't say nawh homie dawg.

This is racist
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I don't get why people are mad at this.

People keep getting hurt or worse because they attack, charge at, ignore or reach into their pants at cops.

and people are angry at guys going "Here's some advice that can help in a pinch?" Wut
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I don't get why people are mad at this.

People keep getting hurt or worse because they attack, charge at, ignore or reach into their pants at cops.

and people are angry at guys going "Here's some advice that can help in a pinch?" Wut

Not only that but it covers their rights when dealing with police which is something absolutely everyone should know
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This benefits everyone.
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Sad that we need these videos, but tbh I have no problem with this. It's at least a start
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Teaching people how to protect themselves is never a bad thing.

I always hate the don't blame the victim idea. Blame the victim too depending on the situation. If the victim literally does nothing to protect themselves, they really deserve some of the blame. Not all of it, but at least some. I mean if you visit NK and they arrest you for some made up charge and torture you, sure it is NK's fault, but also you have some blame for even going to such a place where stuff like that happens. You don't wear a seatbelt and someone crashes into you? Still partly your fault for not wearing a seatbelt. Cross the street whilst looking at your phone? Still partially your fault for not looking before walking.
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Honestly the cops are the ones that need to sit down and watch a video on how to deal with citizens.

They could also call it Blood Runs Red on the Highway.
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TommyG663513 posted...

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Oh no a video during school hours, how horrible for them

How horrible or not really isn't the question. It is how effective it is and whether or not this is an example of law enforcement attempting to skirt responsibility for wrongful killings.

Soooo, basiyit couldn't hurt and everyone gets to talk about whether or not it's a ... -cop-....out
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monkmith posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

monkmith posted...

i'm not seeing the problem. you're against better educating kids in how they should act around the police as to not get shot?

Perhaps we shouldn't have people on the police force whose first and only reaction to everything is to shoot people.

sadly superman isn't real, so cops are made up of regular ass people that dont want to die. maybe making sure citizens have the common sense not to go digging in their glove box as the cop approaches will help limit shootings?

You shouldnt be a cop if you are so cowardly to shoot someone looking in their glove box.
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hotcegaI posted...

here's how you deal with cops
being honest sincere and polite
don't get aggressive
basically respond to them the same way you would to your boss when it looks like you did something wrong
assuming you have the ability to work

What?! They are not my boss nor am I going to act like I did something wrong. What kind of advice is this?
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Why would anyone be against this?

because the migos and taylor swift told me its racist and i need to agree with them or else my friends won't think im cool
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Btw, how are sex ed programs in Texas these days? Just curious.

MC_BatCommander posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

I don't get why people are mad at this.

People keep getting hurt or worse because they attack, charge at, ignore or reach into their pants at cops.

and people are angry at guys going "Here's some advice that can help in a pinch?" Wut

Not only that but it covers their rights when dealing with police which is something absolutely everyone should know

Well that doesnt seem so bad.
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LightHawKnight posted...

Teaching people how to protect themselves is never a bad thing.

I always hate the don't blame the victim idea. Blame the victim too depending on the situation. If the victim literally does nothing to protect themselves, they really deserve some of the blame. Not all of it, but at least some. I mean if you visit NK and they arrest you for some made up charge and torture you, sure it is NK's fault, but also you have some blame for even going to such a place where stuff like that happens. You don't wear a seatbelt and someone crashes into you? Still partly your fault for not wearing a seatbelt. Cross the street whilst looking at your phone? Still partially your fault for not looking before walking.

hey @Complete_Idi0t you posted on the wrong account
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

Btw, how are sex ed programs in Texas these days? Just curious.

Probably ineffective much like this program and much like D.A.R.E. before that and "just say no" before that. The argument you'd always hear after that one was "how could anyone have a problem with simple advice?" The counter is that these programs are often shown not to work and thus can be a huge waste of time and money.

I'd be curious to see if this program is effective at all. I really doubt it though. Sounds like it'd be way easier to improve the behavior of peace officers as opposed to the entire general population. They are the ones who hold the power in these encounters what with their fingers sitting on the trigger and all that.
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Why are they calling police officers "peace officers"? A program educating students about how to interact with law enforcement is a good idea---so long as there is no bias surrounding the issue.

Idgi TC would you rather they get shot?
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