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Perhaps you're coming from a perspective where policing is presumptively bad In much of the US, this is a fair assumption. The police have no legal obligation
by alistairSH 2y ago
Perhaps you're coming from a perspective where policing is presumptively bad
In much of the US, this is a fair assumption. The police have no legal obligation to assist. They carry guns and are authorized to use them. They receive less training than many of their European counterparts. And the entire justice system is constructed to allow minimal accountability in the face of malfeasance. It's a recipe for not only wasted dollars, but also excess violence and wasted lives.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoAgain, I'm not sure what to say. I agree with many of your criticisms, but it's hard for me to see why they imply that a tool to help police detect and investigate every gunshot noise in my neighborhood is bad. I'd much rather have an undertrained cop investigate than nobody at all, and training cops to a European standard would require large investments in police funding that I'm not sure are politically feasible today.
- alistairSH 2y agoThe problem is the tool is ineffective (to the point several cities have stopped using it). And anything that causes an erroneous/unnecessary police response should be viewed with extreme suspicion, given the massive flaws in our police model.