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How many examples to you have of someone being killed after filing a police report?

chrisseaton 7y ago
There's tons of stories from the last few years about police being called when not required to situations, and it turning lethal.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  Police responding to a 911 call, and a company filing a police report are not the same thing. Not even remotely.
  - chrisseaton 7y ago
    Could the police possibly visit your house based on that report at some point in the future to ask some questions, carrying guns? For some people, that's potentially lethal situation. There are so many reports of random things police do when they turn up and some dog barks or something and it ends up with a hail of gunfire for some reason.
    - GhostVII 7y ago
      Sounds like you are just trying to find excuses to insert your distrust of police into discussions where it isn't at all relevant.
      - behringer 7y ago
        Sounds to me like you're ignoring the reality of the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... If you want an example, February 2019 had a couple incidents of cops showing up to a non-emergency and killing someone.
        imtringued 7y ago
        I don't care if the police officers were lying or not, you just showed me an absolutely shocking number of people resisting against police with their firearms. I'm sure many innocent people were killed by the police in the USA but the number of guilty people is even bigger. If you have to build a law enforcement system that absolutely has to be able to deal with armed criminals then the end result is that violence escalates even when it could be avoided. You won't find meaningful gains in changing the behavior of the officers in such a society.
ceejayoz 7y ago
One pretty prominent case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting

There's tons of stories from the last few years about police being called when not required to situations, and it turning lethal.

reaperducer 7y ago
Police responding to a 911 call, and a company filing a police report are not the same thing. Not even remotely.
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  Could the police possibly visit your house based on that report at some point in the future to ask some questions, carrying guns? For some people, that's potentially lethal situation. There are so many reports of random things police do when they turn up and some dog barks or something and it ends up with a hail of gunfire for some reason.
  - GhostVII 7y ago
    Sounds like you are just trying to find excuses to insert your distrust of police into discussions where it isn't at all relevant.
    - behringer 7y ago
      Sounds to me like you're ignoring the reality of the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... If you want an example, February 2019 had a couple incidents of cops showing up to a non-emergency and killing someone.
      - imtringued 7y ago
        I don't care if the police officers were lying or not, you just showed me an absolutely shocking number of people resisting against police with their firearms. I'm sure many innocent people were killed by the police in the USA but the number of guilty people is even bigger. If you have to build a law enforcement system that absolutely has to be able to deal with armed criminals then the end result is that violence escalates even when it could be avoided. You won't find meaningful gains in changing the behavior of the officers in such a society.

ceejayoz 7y ago

One pretty prominent case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting