Maybe stop behaving like animals would help?
And stop taunting cops?
Posted on 11/26/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by rellimpank
Imagine if the first bullet in a cop's chamber were a blank bullet. Would this approach save lives?
What if a police department adopted this approach as standard procedure. Or, better yet, if legislation mandated this requirement for state and local police departments. Would it help save lives?
Police in Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand typically do not carry weapons at all when they are patrolling the streets. Surely, crimes in those countries are no less threatening than what we experience in the U.S.
The idea is not to ban guns from the police departments here. Rather, it is to require that the first bullet in the chamber not be a live bullet.
Nonbelievers will say the hazards of entering a violent situation require an immediate and forceful response. True. They will say police officers often must make split-second decisions. True again. And they will say that "the bad guys" carry guns. True once more. However, we must allow police the opportunity to assess a situation and decide if a nonlethal approach is preferable. The knowledge that the first bullet in the chamber is a blank could provide that opportunity. If a police officer needs a live round, the second bullet stands ready.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Police shootings have decreased steadily for decades.
What?
Why not raid the entry standards and make it much easier to get rid of bad cops?
Yes. Remove the oroblem children. End of problem.
A Chicago paper writing about Police shootings?
I would wager it’s a lot less than the non-Police shootings in that city.
Heck, why not give them cap pistols - as far as the Left-Wng nut jobs are concerned, they are every bit as scary as a real weapon. Or better, yet - half eaten pop tarts - that way they can have a snack if the bad guy doesn’t kill them.
maybe they should have one bullet in their shirt pocket, seemed to work for Barney, he never killed anyone.
Multiple body cams that cannot be disabled are the quick route to reducing misconduct.
Good cops will love them, bad cops will hate them.
Only a court order should be able to decrypt the stored video/audio.... this is needed as officers should have privacy when not directly engaging with the public. Only the time period of actual confrontation should ever be decrypted.
I’d hate to be a cop sitting in my car chatting with a fellow officer over lunch and worrying about who might hear our private conversation.
Get criminal thugs off the streets.
What liberals really complain about is white cops having the chutzpah to defend their lives.
They’d rather have dead white cops than dead black thugs.
Now who’s racist?
If resisting arrest was punishable by being subdued with a night stick or billy, the “abuse “ would swiftly end.
The right to resist should be come the right to get beat upon
A beyond stupid idea, I guess these knuckleheads have never heard of a double tap.
Let me break into your house and have the first bullet in your gun, that’s if you have one, be a dummy. Your band, my bang, you’re dead!
“Police in Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand ...”
How much of a pretzel am I expected to twist myself into so as to not notice it?
Here’s another fantastic idea. Send all the cops home and fend for yourself.
Lets make it a law so that the gangs need a not live bullet in the chamber of their guns so stop gang killing!/s
Sounds like a threat.
Don’t beget them
Maybe stop behaving like animals would help?
And stop taunting cops?
The author needs to spend a month in a police uniform, where he would endure being kicked, punched, spit upon, wrestled, shoved, and be called ever name in the book by dirty foul smelling creeps with a bad attitude.
Then perhaps he’d understand why they carry guns.
Perhaps then he’d also understand why people cross the street to avoid punks in hoodies and knee high pants.
And perhaps he’d understand why our jails are full of certain demographic groups.
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