I would argue that showing a dominant amount of force is the norm not an imperative. Police justify many actionsl/systems/norms based on the fact that their jo

I would argue that showing a dominant amount of force is the norm not an imperative. Police justify many actionsl/systems/norms based on the fact that their job is dangerous. However they have also, in doing so, created a situation where anything they do to reduce risk to themselves is valid. That hits a limit at some point You could insist that police behave in a way that actually puts them at some risk…i.e., not presume they will be attacked or to be unarmed. We could decide that that risk is worth it as a society and insist upon it just as we insist that essential workers put themselves at risk during covid to feed us. If potential risk is always used to justify force, eventually the risk will be gone because force will be the default.