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> There's no reason to pull a gun on an unarmed child in a household of people who have demonstrated no danger to the police executing the warrant, even if it t
by ogre_codes 6y ago
> There's no reason to pull a gun on an unarmed child in a household of people who have demonstrated no danger to the police executing the warrant, even if it took forever to enter the property. There is no planet upon which "she hung up on us and didn't answer the door for 20 minutes" is by itself a reason to threaten to kill someone.
Fully agree. Wasn't trying to justify it.
- totalZero 6y agoI wasn't going after you, apologies if it came off that way. My frustration is aimed at the system which tacitly consents to needless police aggression. When I read about police behavior I am always reminded of Dr. Zimbardo's suggestion that systems may be corrupted not by bad apples, but rather by a bad barrel that damages otherwise healthy apples within. Your comment about decent people hits near the same concept.
- ogre_codes 6y agoNo worries, I can see how you could read it as justifying their actions. I was just trying to point out that she likely made things worse. I wish our police forces could be much more like the British where only a small percentage of officers are armed. The over-abundance of weapons here makes that exceedingly difficult, but it would be nice. Certainly situations like this where the probability of violent resistance is so small should merit unarmed response, but that's just not the way we do things.