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Similarly, where are the cries about a flawed system, where anonymous tips can lead to militarized responses? SWAT teams should ONLY ever be engaged after being
by lend000 8y ago
Similarly, where are the cries about a flawed system, where anonymous tips can lead to militarized responses? SWAT teams should ONLY ever be engaged after being escalated from a normal police response.
Many policemen are happy to promote the view that cops put themselves in harm's way for society's benefit, but in reality, they go in shooting first, instead of taking on the risk of determining without doubt that a forceful response is necessary first (at their own risk). If all the news stories of unarmed victims are any indication, the net innocent lives saved would be much higher as a result of taking on that risk, even if the rarer instances of an armed, dangerous, and aggressive criminal did result in some of those lives lost being officers.
In any case, this risk of being wrong should only go down if police modernize, with the availability of drones and other technologies.
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