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Originally Posted by miclo18d
It's not necessarily distrust of the police. I love the police and I let them know that at any chance I get. BUT. Police need to relook they're TTPs. I think the number one issue that police think about is not a TTP, but the adage of: "I want to go home to my family tonight." This brings about an attitude of shoot first, defend yourself in court later. Myself, as a non-LEO, if I just shot someone that I thought was a threat, that really wasn't, and didn't have the blood on my face on a camera somewhere (ala Zimmerman), I would go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Police should be held to the highest standard. Above reproach. If you wanted to go home at the end of each shift, you should have been an IT professional. You work in a dangerous world and you have to be ready to die for the belief that you it's not about going home each night, but making sure you protect "Joe Public". This is where me as a retired .mil has a problem. When I joined I basically understood I was already dead and if I was lucky enough not to be at the end, then BONUS! It frees you to run to the sound of gunfire to know that you may die doing it, because God may have already called your number.
I have no sympathy for the scumbags you guys and gals send to dirt naps, but there needs to be a modicum of restraint and attempt to subdue and arrest. After all, I couldn't just shoot anyone I wanted to in combat, just because I wanted to go home at the end of my deployment... even if no one would have known about it, I would have.
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I agree, and the bad thing is that the whole "go home at the end of your shift" mentality is the prevailing method being taught across the country, and it absolutely breeds the idea that 'shoot first defend yourself later' is the only acceptable resolution. I'm not one of these guys with thin blue lines plastered all over my motorcycles and cars and living the first responder life, to me it's just a job, and the job carries some risk, but so do a whole bunch of other jobs. The other problem is the militarization of police, and the prevailing warrior mentality, which deserves a stand alone category for discussion. All in all, they combine to create a dangerous recipe for disaster.