Posted on 11/26/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by rellimpank
The "blue wall" mentality and the police unions make this almost impossible. For whatever reason, good cops will go to the mat to defend bad cops. It's one thing I've never understood about LEOs.
Is this satire? If it is not satire, then it just goes to show how Liberals are always ready to mess things up. Such a measure would get cops killed, period. If you want to control the small minority of police officers who are bad people, then just mandate body cameras that are tamper-proof. That will stop the few bad cops. But having cops go around with, basically, a snap cap in their gun, is wrong.
Why don’t we have the first action be a stern letter, mailed to the criminal.
>>The idea is ... to require that the first bullet in the chamber not be a live bullet.
What?<<
If this guy had done 10 seconds of research he would know cops are trained to empty their magazine once the decision to use deadly force has been made.
Another “journalist” who graduated from MU
>>maybe they should have one bullet in their shirt pocket, seemed to work for Barney, he never killed anyone.<<
One bullet would be pretty useless no matter what. A cartridge might be more helpful.
Apparently the author has never fired a semi-automatic pistol. If you know the first round is a blank, then the second round is definitely less than a second behind it.
End the teaching of the “thin blue line”. That’s a major part of why cops have this us vs them mentality.
>>How much of a pretzel am I expected to twist myself into so as to not notice it?
Shhh. You’re not supposed to notice.
Probably not police lives. Not all police shootings are an abuse of power. The overwhelming majority are justified, and this idea would just kill or injure police officers.
“Apparently the author has never fired a semi-automatic pistol. If you know the first round is a blank, then the second round is definitely less than a second behind it.”
A blank will almost certainly not cycle the action. You would have to rack the slide to chamber the live round thus wasting valuable time.
...and there is of course, the training we go through to put two down range immediately, assess and repeat as needed.
These liberals are going to get USA killed...
Indeed next patrolling the streets on unicorns.
That blank on the first trigger pull would be meaningless as the second pull follows as fast as the officer’s finger can move.
See my post #31
Rodney King pretty much got the nightsticks put in the back room.
Chris Rock made a funny comedy video, targeted at black people, entitled “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police”. It’s still on YouTube, uncensored and with lots of bad language.
It is funny because it is grounded in the truth.
In fact, so well grounded that police departments around the US should have been making *serious* versions of this video and distributing them freely.
This sounds nonsensical on the surface, until you have the harsh realization that *many* people have never had these lessons, and have not figured these things out.
Rodney King is an excellent example. Before he was attacked by the police, he and his companion did perhaps a dozen things *guaranteed* to upset, attract, and make police respond violently. He incited the heck out of them.
And King and his companion may not have even realized they were doing so. I know it sounds implausible, but it’s the truth.
A serious police video would be hard pressed to put all those lessons into just an hour long DVD, but it would be a great start. The best part is that they could involve local black church and community leaders in the video to give it greater credibility, as well as to teach them, since apparently a lot of them don’t know any better either.
Not too long ago, a police department invited a local black agitator to use their gun use video course, and it really opened his eyes up to what police encounter that results in gunfire.
1. Instead of the city paying millions for retribution, the court could charge the Union Pension Fund. Hit the cops in the pocketbook to promote self-policing to get rid of the out-of-control individuals.
2. The courts probably won't go for item #1, so the city issues insurance policies for each cop. The insurance policy pays the plaintiff instead of the city. If a LEO is so out of control that he has an excessive insurance payout, he loses his insurance coverage and in effect ends his career as a cop, his pension based upon time served.
While many LEOs act like thugs, having real standards for hiring and training would fix the problem. The real question is whether there is a “magic bullet” to reduce black and hispanic criminality.
And .. another one who’s probably willing to allow criminals loose on the street .. because their punishment is too harsh.
I’m at puke with these people.
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