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This is correct. In many places, the police actively avoid "hot calls", where if there is shooting, they will hang back until it is over before moving in.
by apostacy 8y ago
This is correct. In many places, the police actively avoid "hot calls", where if there is shooting, they will hang back until it is over before moving in.
- wallace_f 8y agoPolicing as an institution and career field needs to go through a revolution to make it more like medicine. Officers with militarized equipment shouldnt exist. Police with guns should need more-serious training and credentials, but at the moment, police departments across the country actively discriminate in favor of stupidity[1]. And this would not increase budgets. We dont need more governnment thugs. We need zero government thugs, and more public servants accountable to the public. 1 - https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
- darkerside 8y agoI'd rather this then police come in hot, shooting first and asking questions later. Mass violence is the exception, not the rule, and police should be deescalating situations, not causing trouble.
- apostacy 8y agoSo, if you are being robbed, you would rather that the police wait a few blocks away?
- darkerside 8y agoI'd rather nothing bad happen to anyone ever, given the option.
- apostacy 8y agoSure, we'd all like nothing bad to ever happen. But, if you were being attacked by someone, would you prefer that the police "de-escalate" things by not engaging your attackers, or would you want them to come in "guns blazing"? You have to pick one or the other. Life doesn't give you a convenient third option.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> But, if you were being attacked by someone, would you prefer that the police "de-escalate" things by not engaging your attackers, or would you want them to come in "guns blazing"? You have to pick one or the other. Life doesn't give you a convenient third option. De-escalation is still active engagement; there is, in fact, a third option, and it was demonstrated in Parkland.
- darkerside 8y agoIf they can walk over and deescalate, then of course I want them to deescalate. This isn't an action movie. Once bullets start flying, my odds of survival are likely going down, not up. Do you think a policeman's job is to be a hero, or a public servant? Because I think they should be public servants. If one shows heroism while in the line of duty, it's because he is a hero and a good person. Not because of a paycheck and a badge.
- apostacy 8y agoThese are just platitudes about "heroes" and "public servants". I want police that are effective. If someone is threatening you with a weapon, you had better hope that there is at least one other weapon in this situation. Well trained police that frequently go to the shooting range and are highly trained and experienced can be highly effective at minimizing harm in areas where criminals are well armed. There is ample data from real life. It is sad that we have to apply policing methodologies that are effective in places like South Africa or Brazil, but this is the country we live in now.
- darkerside 8y agoNot sure what country you live in, but fortunately I can afford to live in a part of the US where that is not characteristic. And I'd much rather my local police not come in firing like the A Team, thanks.