[SoCal Pubbie]

Assuming that option is not politically acceptable, the alternative may be to have all patrols consist of no less than two officers. Setting one cop loose in the hood to be at a numerical disadvantage doesn’t seem wise to me. This would also provide two police witnesses to each encounter.

[LevinFan]

” This would also
provide two police witnesses to each
encounter.”

Nope. No credability. Innocent or guilty, the assumption would be they are circling the wagons around their own. Problem is,that assumption is correct.

There was a time when a cop’s word was gold. Now? Not so much. And the shame is cops are the ones responsible for that.

[Wallace T.]

In a hostile climate, as existed in many cities in the 1970s before the political backlash of the 1980s and 1990s, police simply will not respond in situations involving feral inner-city thugs. There is nothing to be gained, and possibly a career to be lost, if police officers engage criminals, especially black ones. They will protect their own.