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Structuring law enforcement activities on the premise that people must and will not engage in one of the most reliable and instinctive responses to the situatio
by retrac 5y ago
Structuring law enforcement activities on the premise that people must and will not engage in one of the most reliable and instinctive responses to the situation, is probably going to end badly. Yet people don't get shot by the police doing so in every country at the same rate.
Like, things would go very badly for me if I sped away during a traffic stop here in Canada. Prison eventually, tire blow strips on the highway, and quite a rough arrest. But I honestly would not expect to be shot in that situation, unless I gave them reason to think I was armed and homicidal (though I still wouldn't roll the dice on it). Of course with that said, a significant proportion of the police shootings here are also in traffic stops. I admit it's a naturally tense situation.
- dazc 5y ago'Yet people don't get shot by the police doing so in every country at the same rate.' This is true in the UK because most cops don't have guns and they don't expect people they stop to have guns either. Despite this, the police have still managed to shoot a number of innocent people. I should add that the chances of randomly being stopped in a car by UK Police is about the same as winning the lottery.