couldn’t have said it better

Officer Norman polices the town I grew up in - he’s a good man as are the vast majority of his fellow officers.

Holy balls...I don’t think there is enough respect in the world that can be given for this post. Very well done and well said.

Why would the average midwestern WASP housewife - especially of the pre-internet era - have to feign ignorance of the plight of oppressed minorities? I’d be pretty confident her ignorance is absolutely real. If a kid is riding in the backseat of his parents’ car, and they run over a squirrel, is it the kid’s fault? …

My brother was a prosecutor and he started off handling IA cases and there was nothing more depressing than trying to protect good cops from the bad ones.

I was responding to what I felt was an accusation of ignorance in another comment. As I recall there were lots of white folks among the Freedom Riders and other progressive civil rights movements during the time period you’re speaking of. Not enough, but not zero. They clearly weren’t ALL ignorant.

It doesn’t really say anything about their intentions either way — just that they realize they may have made a mistake.

Keep the context in mind. Rancorr and I were discussing the plight of the so-called Good Apples, cops who keep their mission in mind and actually want to serve the community. They get to experience that contempt, too, as another job “perk”.

If it could show empirical results then sure. Trust me the journals are chock full of bonkers stuff like that. I can sit on PubMed o ERIC or PsychINFO (the main journal archives) and just browse all day and find some really out-there stuff. Just because something is in a journal doesn’t mean it’s sound though, it just…

a tall, lanky teenager who barely spoke above a whisper.

I swear that old Simpsons clip might actually be documentary footage of real police training.

I was a super shy kid growing up. Had learning issues from a hearing problem that luckily was corrected but it still made me afraid to approach new people. Luckily I met some kids in my first year of high school that played D&D and they invited me to join them. There was about 10 of us and we all became pretty tight…

Not disagreeing with you here. Mistakes are going to happen regardless, don’t think there has ever been a person who was perfect at their job and never made a mistake, but training and experience is going to be the best way to avoid these mistakes.

You’re right, we are of the same mind.

I apologize, I took you for one of the usual people who complain about any mention of race in a comment about police stupidity.

Yeah holy fuck, you watch footage of soldiers in combat debating whether to fire on aggressive vehicles or not because THEY MIGHT GET SUICIDE BOMBED, you have to wonder what makes people this violent but then you remember this is a guy who decided on a career so he could carry a gun and tell people what to do every…

I don’t think that poster isn’t claiming that the officer involved isn’t racist. I think what they’re saying is, even without the presumption of racist intent, the actions by themselves are criminally negligent. You can (rightfully) assume the racist disregard for human life, but at the end of the day, this officer…

That was my first thought when I read this. At least if the driver is alive and unpanicked, you know that the car is being driven with some direction. If you shoot and kill the driver, who knows what will happen? It may drift to a stop, it may accelerate, it may swerve onto the sidewalk. And if you shoot and don’t…

Our enlisted guys(and gals) deployed in combat zones overseas have more rigid protocols for when to deploy lethal force than suburban cops do.

Apparently, so might this woman.