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a significant portion of police training literally teaches them to fear your regular citizen. they're taught that anybody may be armed and they face the chance
by paimapi 2mo ago
a significant portion of police training literally teaches them to fear your regular citizen. they're taught that anybody may be armed and they face the chance of death at every traffic stop and are shown dashcam footage of the worst incidents where this did happen without the probabilistic context
see https://revealnews.org/podcast/what-cops-arent-learning/ https://revealnews.org/podcast/what-cops-arent-learning/
- NewJazz 2mo agoTo touch on the probabilities, they're probably more likely to die getting side swiped by a car, than getting shot by the person they're stopping.
- actionfromafar 2mo agoCommunity policing, it aint.