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Pretty much. I keep seeing people here use the multi-year police academies in Europe as an example of why they have less issues with police brutality, while at

by dx87 6y ago

Pretty much. I keep seeing people here use the multi-year police academies in Europe as an example of why they have less issues with police brutality, while at the same time saying that the police in the USA need less resources.

pwinnski 6y ago
The police chief of the city in which I live, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, was asked why we haven't seen the sort of cases here that we've seen in Dallas and even other suburbs. His response was that we require all applicants to have a bachelors degree. Could be correlation rather than causation, of course.
- refurb 6y ago
  The same city where a police officer broke into the wrong apartment, thinking it was hers, and killed the man inside? Not sure I'd be pointing fingers if I were the Dallas PD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean
- refurb 6y ago
  The same city where a police officer broke into the wrong apartment, thinking it was hers, and killed an unarmed black man inside? Not sure I'd be pointing fingers if I were the Dallas PD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean
  - pwinnski 6y ago
    Reading comprehension: I said I live in "a suburb of Dallas," while the incident you reference happened in the city of Dallas itself. I even drew a contrast between my city and what "we've seen in Dallas and even other suburbs." You'd have been better off noticing the contrast I drew and talking about McKinney, another suburb of Dallas, in which a cop infamously stormed onto the scene and threw 15-year-old girl in a bikini to the concrete and pointed a gun at a teenage boy who objected.[0] But no, not that suburb either. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Texas_pool_party_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Texas_pool_party_incident
    - refurb 6y ago
      I missed that. But suburbs aren't exactly a flash point here. There are plenty of suburbs who don't only high degree holders who haven't had problems.
      - pwinnski 6y ago
        Ferguson is a suburb of St Louis. Kenosha is a suburb of either Milwaukee or Chicago, depending on who you ask. McKinney is a suburb of Dallas. Most of the footage from "Minneapolis" was actually from suburbs of Minneapolis. Current political advertising is heavily focused on using current footage from protests and warning that our suburbs are next if the other candidate is elected. Police violence isn't only a suburban problem, but it is definitely also a suburban problem.

by dx87 6y ago

pwinnski 6y ago

The police chief of the city in which I live, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, was asked why we haven't seen the sort of cases here that we've seen in Dallas and even other suburbs. His response was that we require all applicants to have a bachelors degree. Could be correlation rather than causation, of course.

refurb 6y ago
The same city where a police officer broke into the wrong apartment, thinking it was hers, and killed the man inside? Not sure I'd be pointing fingers if I were the Dallas PD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean
refurb 6y ago
The same city where a police officer broke into the wrong apartment, thinking it was hers, and killed an unarmed black man inside? Not sure I'd be pointing fingers if I were the Dallas PD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean
- pwinnski 6y ago
  Reading comprehension: I said I live in "a suburb of Dallas," while the incident you reference happened in the city of Dallas itself. I even drew a contrast between my city and what "we've seen in Dallas and even other suburbs." You'd have been better off noticing the contrast I drew and talking about McKinney, another suburb of Dallas, in which a cop infamously stormed onto the scene and threw 15-year-old girl in a bikini to the concrete and pointed a gun at a teenage boy who objected.[0] But no, not that suburb either. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Texas_pool_party_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Texas_pool_party_incident
  - refurb 6y ago
    I missed that. But suburbs aren't exactly a flash point here. There are plenty of suburbs who don't only high degree holders who haven't had problems.
    - pwinnski 6y ago
      Ferguson is a suburb of St Louis. Kenosha is a suburb of either Milwaukee or Chicago, depending on who you ask. McKinney is a suburb of Dallas. Most of the footage from "Minneapolis" was actually from suburbs of Minneapolis. Current political advertising is heavily focused on using current footage from protests and warning that our suburbs are next if the other candidate is elected. Police violence isn't only a suburban problem, but it is definitely also a suburban problem.