Sometime around 1960, several cops -- including a cousin of mine -- quit the police force in the small midwestern town I lived in because the police chief there instituted a new policy for the use of deadly force: No police officer shall fire at a perp unless the perp first shoots at the police or at some other innocent person. Period, no exceptions. Good policy. I thought so then. I think so now.
How times have changed. Can you imagine any police department having such a policy today? I can't, but if you happen to know of a town that still has such a rule, let me know because that's where I want to live.
There is no doubt: More than a few cops today are trigger happy killers who are sanctioned to kill people on barely more than a whim. That cell phone in your hand doesn't look like a gun, right? Wrong! Any baby-faced Nelson in blue can drop you in your tracks any time he wants and get away with it scott free. All he has to say is that it "looked like" you had a gun in your hand and that you were pointing it at him. It happens all the time and it has to stop.
Sometime around 1960, several cops -- including a cousin of mine -- quit the police force in the small midwestern town I lived in because the police chief there instituted a new policy for the use of deadly force: No police officer shall fire at a perp unless the perp first shoots at the police or at some other innocent person. Period, no exceptions. Good policy. I thought so then. I think so now.
How times have changed. Can you imagine any police department having such a policy today? I can't, but if you happen to know of a town that still has such a rule, let me know because that's where I want to live.
There is no doubt: More than a few cops today are trigger happy killers who are sanctioned to kill people on barely more than a whim. That cell phone in your hand doesn't look like a gun, right? Wrong! Any baby-faced Nelson in blue can drop you in your tracks any time he wants and get away with it scott free. All he has to say is that it "looked like" you had a gun in your hand and that you were pointing it at him. It happens all the time and it has to stop.
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This is the point of the discussion thread. This 50 years of kool-aide drinking socialism is killing us.