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The numbers for police actions comparing Germany and the US speak a clear language. Any kind of violence is on a far lower level than in the US. We don't need t
by IIIIIIIIIIII 9y ago
The numbers for police actions comparing Germany and the US speak a clear language. Any kind of violence is on a far lower level than in the US. We don't need to talk about the reasons - policing in the US is harder - but your argument does not work. Nor does any of it contradicts my argument, I'm tempted to call yours "whataboutism" (that doesn't even have a basis). We certainly have our own issues, and things like profiling, the same (completely innocent) people getting controlled over and over wherever they go (darker skin, wrong haircut, etc. - who knows the criteria), but none of it pertains to this issue.
- SilasX 9y agoStill not seeing how any of that substantiates your earlier claim that "no one is ever forcibly removed by police and if they needed to be, it wouldn't require training". You're just changing the topic to something more defensible.
- acqq 9y agoI don't see the claim you have put inside the quotes as being made by IIIIIIIIIIII, therefore your argument seems fake.
- SilasX 9y agoWell, I'm trying to parse it, but as best I can tell, III...'s claim is just "Americans suck at this" combined with implausible claims and explicit rejections of any plausible ones. Somehow, the mere act of evicting someone is evidence of needing to de-escalate more, as if that could somehow avoid needing to ever remove someone. Or even if you did, you could somehow do it both without training and without attacking, since everyone learns how to remove someone without hurting them sometime shortly after the crying and nursing instincts kick in? Or, if the eviction wasn't justified, all police are somehow experts on contract law to the point that they could know this? And then when called on these questionable claims, III... just retreats to, "well look at the stats" (and various other poisoning-the-well unrelated to this specific circumstance). If there's a coherent claim here, I'd appreciate the correction on what that claim is. It's easy to say "someone screwed up here", but III...'s attempt to explain what that was ends up making its own dubious claims.
- IIIIIIIIIIII 9y agoFrom your previous comment, above, that I didn't respond to: > that substantiates your earlier claim that "no one is ever forcibly removed by police and if they needed to be, it wouldn't require training". Fortunately anyone can easily see what I wrote. Your style disgusts me.
- SilasX 9y agoEveryone can see the text. No one can see a plausible diagnosis of what went wrong relative to Germany, since you ruled out the possibility of removing anyone or removal needing training to be done safely.