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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other day I was watching a Carol Burnett show skit from the 1970s about police brutality toward college students protesting the Vietnam War.

And then in the 1980s, we have rappers who sang about police brutality. Ice T summed it up. "Our wars won't end until all wars cease." Ice T the poet.

I am afraid it's true.

I see more clearly now in my early 50s, this isn't something that will ever change.

There will always be violent men. My 8th grade teacher used to tell the boys they would end up dead or in jail. One of those boys is now an electrician with a beautiful family with two college aged daughters. He didn't go to college but learned a trade, how to be an electrician.

There is a certain controlling personality type who will choose law enforcement as a career. No amount of empathy training or de-escalation training is going to change their behavior. They must be held accountable for their actions with the threat of prison. But most of these boys and men aren't afraid of the police, the law, or threat of prison. So here we are. [/quote]

The problem are guns. Police are a symptom.  Cops would not be on edge all time, wouldn’t have an us vs them attitude, and wouldn’t be militarized if there were no guns.  For starters, cops wouldn’t even need to carry guns if there were never 300+ million guns on the streets in the US.  That’d at least reduce the risk of deadly police shootings and mass shootings by a lot.[/quote]

Absolute nonsense. Police all over the world are inclined to use excessive force. In many places the first thing that comes after the handcuffs is a station house beating. Guns aren’t going away. Every time the police show up they bring guns with them. The problem here is officer selection, training and supervision. One glaring issue is that, as multiple PP’s have observed, the police gave conflicting commands, yelling over each other, demanding to see hands that someone else was holding behind the victim’s back, etc.  Military personnel are taught to work as a team. All kinds of sports teach teamwork and coordinated effort. The “one riot, one ranger” mentality where every cop acts as if he/she is the only one there and in charge of everything might have made sense decades ago. It makes no sense today. That’s a policy and training failure. [/quote]

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