[CHICAGOFARMER]

1 - I doubt the numbers. I'd like to see the source.
2 - I doubt that all of the dead are "innocent" or "unarmed"
3 - Disarming the cops is as stupid as disarming the honest people.


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1. I will look up a three year old source to support this source if I can find and post it.

2. Absolutes are always wrong. There could be a couple of punks in this group that squeezed thru. You know how newspaper writers are sometimes their views and sources need checking.

3. Don't want to disarm, only change the policy to empty pipe and change the shoot to kill policy. It is stupid to disarm the police, like it is stupid to disarm citizens.

[Judith Anne]

The contempt of many here on this thread for police officers is apparent.

Sometimes I wish some of the brainiacs who make crude jokes would do police work for a living, a couple of years. There are a couple of staties and a county mountie in my family. I can understand contempt for crooked cops, but they are by far the tiny minority. Most are just hardworking, honest people who pay their taxes and try to do their job. They may not be what is you consider the cultural elite, but most are educated.

It IS extremely complex and difficult work. Ridiculing and blaming, tarring all officers with the jokes you so casualy post, is easy.

You may not be smug and self-righteous, holier than the police, but you sure seem like it to me, tonight.

[narses]

"...only change the policy to empty pipe and change the shoot to kill policy."

What, exactly, do you mean "empty pipe"? As for "shoot to kill", since the policy is to shoot when in mortal danger, that needs to remain the same.