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Commentary: Is there a magic bullet to reduce police misconduct?
Chicago Tribune ^ | 26 nov 2015 | Arthur Acevedo

Posted on 11/26/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by rellimpank

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1 posted on 11/26/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

Police shootings have decreased steadily for decades.


2 posted on 11/26/2015 5:39:37 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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The idea is ... to require that the first bullet in the chamber not be a live bullet.

What?

3 posted on 11/26/2015 5:40:36 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Why not raid the entry standards and make it much easier to get rid of bad cops?


4 posted on 11/26/2015 5:40:36 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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Yes. Remove the oroblem children. End of problem.


5 posted on 11/26/2015 5:41:06 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: rellimpank

A Chicago paper writing about Police shootings?
I would wager it’s a lot less than the non-Police shootings in that city.


6 posted on 11/26/2015 5:42:22 AM PST by Straight8
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To: rellimpank

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.


7 posted on 11/26/2015 5:44:42 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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maybe they should have one bullet in their shirt pocket, seemed to work for Barney, he never killed anyone.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 5:46:13 AM PST by euram
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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.


9 posted on 11/26/2015 5:46:16 AM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: rellimpank

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?


10 posted on 11/26/2015 5:46:30 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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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


11 posted on 11/26/2015 5:46:44 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPyes but now I must concentratc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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A beyond stupid idea, I guess these knuckleheads have never heard of a double tap.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 5:48:42 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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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!


13 posted on 11/26/2015 5:49:51 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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“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?


14 posted on 11/26/2015 5:51:03 AM PST by cdcdawg
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Here’s another fantastic idea. Send all the cops home and fend for yourself.


15 posted on 11/26/2015 5:51:12 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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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


16 posted on 11/26/2015 5:51:57 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: rellimpank

Sounds like a threat.


17 posted on 11/26/2015 5:52:00 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: jsanders2001

Don’t beget them


18 posted on 11/26/2015 5:52:45 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: rellimpank
Is there a magic bullet to reduce police misconduct?

Maybe stop behaving like animals would help?

And stop taunting cops?


19 posted on 11/26/2015 5:57:39 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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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.


20 posted on 11/26/2015 6:00:12 AM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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