Why do the police keep shooting people dead?
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Poster does have a point. LA did lead the country in shootings last year and the year before.
LAPD Leads Nation in Number of Fatal Shootings of Civilians in 2016 | L.A. Weekly
LAPD Leads Nation in Number of Fatal Shootings of Civilians in 2016 | L.A. Weekly
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Only loosely related to OP's question. I was talking to a met police copper. A current nasty they are contending with in UK is the rising use of acid/ ammonia as a weapon. He was called in for fear of rioting in Hackney and the previous night liquids were being thrown at the cops.
I'm not making a specific point, other than policing is hard everywhere and I wouldn't want to do the job.
I'm not making a specific point, other than policing is hard everywhere and I wouldn't want to do the job.
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Only loosely related to OP's question. I was talking to a met police copper. A current nasty they are contending with in UK is the rising use of acid/ ammonia as a weapon. He was called in for fear of rioting in Hackney and the previous night liquids were being thrown at the cops.
I'm not making a specific point, other than policing is hard everywhere and I wouldn't want to do the job.
I'm not making a specific point, other than policing is hard everywhere and I wouldn't want to do the job.
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Personally I don't give two hoots if the LAPD lead the score. They're not my police force anyway. Cant remember the last time there was a police shooting in my neck of the woods. But if a robber or other criminal carries a gun, threatens anyone with it and refuses to give it up does it really matter if he gets shot? The alternative is that he'll go to prison, get three good meals a day, medical and dental attention, spend his time body building and maybe one day end up appearing on "Lockup"
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It's unfortunate the POlice here had to shoot the owners of our local Filipino food place. I only got to go there once before they were shot. There has not been another one since.
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Personally I don't give two hoots if the LAPD lead the score. They're not my police force anyway. Cant remember the last time there was a police shooting in my neck of the woods. But if a robber or other criminal carries a gun, threatens anyone with it and refuses to give it up does it really matter if he gets shot? The alternative is that he'll go to prison, get three good meals a day, medical and dental attention, spend his time body building and maybe one day end up appearing on "Lockup"
(ii) If you did a modicum of research, you'd see that they managed to shoot a lot of people who weren't commiting criminal acts.
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Approaching a cop with any kind of weapon even if that person is not committing a crime can be viewed by the cop as a deadly threat.
If were to apprehend someone lurking in the back yard of my home in the dead of night and hold him at gun point while my wife called 911 I would immediately place my firearm on the ground as soon as the police arrived.
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Personally I don't give two hoots if the LAPD lead the score. They're not my police force anyway. Cant remember the last time there was a police shooting in my neck of the woods. But if a robber or other criminal carries a gun, threatens anyone with it and refuses to give it up does it really matter if he gets shot? The alternative is that he'll go to prison, get three good meals a day, medical and dental attention, spend his time body building and maybe one day end up appearing on "Lockup"
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it would only have to be done once to stop such attacks once and for all.
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In 1983 my wife was working late and on her way to her car in a downtown parking lot was robbed at gun point. They took her purse and her watch. The loss of property was nothing compared to the trauma she suffered afterwards. She had to quit her job and later found another job not far from home.
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Maybe one way to stop acid attacks is to take a page from the Iranian law on the subject. A young Iranian woman was terribly disfigured by a rejected suitor who threw acid in her face. The court decided that the same should be done to the attacker.
it would only have to be done once to stop such attacks once and for all.
it would only have to be done once to stop such attacks once and for all.
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Maybe one way to stop acid attacks is to take a page from the Iranian law on the subject. A young Iranian woman was terribly disfigured by a rejected suitor who threw acid in her face. The court decided that the same should be done to the attacker.
it would only have to be done once to stop such attacks once and for all.
it would only have to be done once to stop such attacks once and for all.
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