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Grappling a knife wielding man is a wildly unreasonable ask of police officers.
by nonethewiser 4y ago
Grappling a knife wielding man is a wildly unreasonable ask of police officers.
- pwthornton 4y agoPeople get very unrealistic ideas from movies and TV shows. If you go to attack someone who has a knife and you are barehanded, you almost assuredly will lose that altercation.
- bjornsing 4y agoOf course it is. And I explicitly address that in my comment… There is no such ask.
- uoaei 4y agoIt is something they signed up for. This is the cost of protecting your community. Not all of us are so brave as to become a police officer. But there comes a time when you need to stand up not just for the people around you, but the values you all organize yourselves into communities for. Protecting a community's way of life is literally the job description of the police. This includes protecting your community from being dominated by a police force empowered to murder with no warning or accountability. The officers are the ones who make the decisions to ensure that their communities remain safe from threats of all kinds. We don't give our armed forces excuses when they violate the Geneva convention and ROE, why would we do it with police?
- cess11 4y agoOK. Would it be unreasonable to ask them to form a barrier between the violent person and other people in the area and defuse the situation with either patience, wit or talk?
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- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoI agree. We should have a special body of people trained explicitly to deal with violent behaviour and threats to life, such as men wielding knives and similar weapons. They should be given training and equipment to disarm, or otherwise neutralise,such threats, without putting anyone's lives in danger, their own, the general public's, or the people acting in a threatening manner.