I’m curious; as a former law enforcement officer I’d like to ask you if there is any situation you could contemplate where a citizen would refuse to do what you told them to do and where you’d walk away instead of escalating the situation?
“I’m curious; as a former law enforcement officer I’d like to ask you if there is any situation you could contemplate where a citizen would refuse to do what you told them to do and where you’d walk away instead of escalating the situation”
I can’t think of a situation as an officer where I would walk away from a “situation”(someone breaking the law). There many times I/we took exhaustive measures not to “escalate” a situation and worked very hard to defuse it, that was part of our training.
If someone was doing something unsafe but not breaking the law and I asked them to stop and they didn’t stop I’m might decide not to “escalate” that situation, depends on what it was.