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Nobody said "the same". The question in my mind is what people are expecting? What do they think this proves? Policing is a conflict focused job that involves
by s1artibartfast 4mo ago
Nobody said "the same".
The question in my mind is what people are expecting? What do they think this proves? Policing is a conflict focused job that involves violence so I wouldnt expect it to be the same as baseline to begin with.
I would caution against "just so" explainations. There are obviously lots of complex reasons and one can speculate a lot of stories one way or another.
- tremon 4mo ago> Policing is a conflict focused job that involves violence Because of this, police officers should have plenty of experience (and training, but let's limit this to the US) with de-escalation and proportional response. The domestic violence rates should be lower among police wrt the general populace for that reason alone.
- hollerith 4mo agoTrue, and also DV rates should be higher for the type of person who chooses a job where one of the requirements is to run towards danger.
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoPolice arent just trained to de-escalate. They are also trained to kill humans. This too has an influence who becomes a cop. You cant just cherry pick the factors you think would lead to lower DV and ignore the others. do you mean they should be lower as a normative claim or postive claim? It is clearly flase as a positive claim, if the police domestic violence studies done in the 90's are still accurate.
- tremon 4mo ago> They are also trained to kill humans Police are not soldiers nor executioners. Where does this fantasy come from that they are somehow "trained to kill"? Copaganda shows, I guess?