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> Counselling is being provided to the special forces team. I bet American special forces would need counselling if they were away from combat for too long.
by w1ntermute 13y ago
> Counselling is being provided to the special forces team.
I bet American special forces would need counselling if they were away from combat for too long.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoAnd how often does this happen: "Police regret this incident and would like to extend their condolences to the family of the man," Icelandic police chief Haraldur Johannessen told reporters.
- jasonlotito 13y agoAll the time? We've just become too cynical to believe it, or pay it much mind.
- goldenkey 13y agoNot really. In Iceland they understand the man is crazy, the culture examines the underpinnings of crime, their prisons are for rehabilitation. In America, we practice punishment and retribution, he is a terrorist; a menace; the threat must be stopped.
- justin66 13y agoI don't study every press release by police but it strikes me as an unusual statement. It's obvious enough why this would be the case. Keep in mind, in America police departments will be financially liable to the dead person's family if they admit an error, anything they say can be used against them in court, and shootings like this happen a lot.
- wavefunction 13y agoI have never seen the police in the US apologize for anything.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> All the time? Examples?
- buster 13y agoJust because i think it seems to be an interesting fact: Killed people by police in 2012: U.S.: 587 Germany: 3 Even less in Canada or the UK. (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... + the links at the bottom)
- kevincennis 13y agoThis strikes me as needlessly snarky and cynical.