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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There needs to be a stronger ethic for the preservation of life, period. Use of force needs to be examined on the basis of whether it was necessary rather than justified. It's not just deaths and serious injuries at point of arrests, it's deaths and serious injuries in jails and prisons. Every community has had situations in which a powerless inmate has been in dire need of medical attention and been callously ignored, resulting in death. And the restraint chair deaths. Pervading all these scenarios is a belief that "perps" are less than human, that their lives are disposable and do not merit attention.

I'm a boomer. Back in the late 70s I remember a college friend (a dyed in the wool revolutionary and social justice warrior raised that way from birth) bringing up that all the old western TV shows we grew up watching--the Matt Dillons, Ben Cartwrights, the rest of them--fed us constant plotlines about the whole idea being to bring the wrong-doer to justice by a fair trial. I realize that mentality did not reflect the social reality, but I find it interesting that it was a message considered important enough to keep driving at.

Given the political upheaval around policing and liability and qualified immunity, it would be hard to impossible to approach these situations from the standpoint used in medical mortality and morbidity conferences, but if that had become standard a long time ago, we might be in a much better place now. [/quote]

I agree. They try to subdue too quickly. [/quote]

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