Please, keep impressing us. Your valuable and marginally articulate contributions to this discussion are duly noted as is your complete lack of interest in even a minimal examination of what could a pattern in this country, of over reliance on lethal force.
Coyote, maybe I've missed what YOUR alternative is to "deadly force" and just how that would work?
DEADLY FORCE is THE proven method of successful goal execution as old as civilization itself.
- For 12,000 years, when two opposing parties want the same land and there is no negotiating or compromise, one doesn't threaten to stop sending them birthday cards, they use DEADLY FORCE. The one with the most deadly force wins.
- If we want to invade a country and take their wealth, love and kisses don't stop us, it is the THREAT of DEADLY FORCE used back against us that dissuades us from trying.
- When the government says you have to pay your taxes or obey the law, you listen not because they promise to send you extra Christmas cookies for the Holidays, but because of the threat of DEADLY FORCE.
- When your ex rips you off and you want to choke her ass, you don't do it becauase of the fear of the State's use of DEADLY FORCE.
- When the police come to your door or stop you, most people listen to and obey them not because they are good citizens who love the police, but because of the threat of DEADLY FORCE.
- When you were a kid and your dad threatened to beat your ass, you listened to him not out of love but out of fear of his absolute power over you which amounted to the same as DEADLY FORCE.
- When we stopped disciplining kids they grew out of control, because there was no longer the threat of a DEADLY FORCE. Kids today know they can get away with anything, so don't listen.
- Today, technology offers the police officer charged with maintaining the peace several options, from verbal commands and body language, intimidation, physical restraint, handcuffing, and police baton, up to using a taser, a police dog, to intimately a shotgun and firearm as DEADLY FORCE. That is because if cops were little old grannies who threatened to spank you with a ping pong paddle, NO ONE WOULD RESPECT OR OBEY THEM.
Deadly force is here to stay. At least for a few more thousand years until man evolves into a harmonious, peaceful organism without want or need, motivated only by the greater good of the whole rather than personal gain. What choice a police officer uses rests mostly up to you. Officers are trained to try to use minimal force, SHOULD be trained to use minimal force, AS THEY SEE FIT at their discretion, when deemed possible, up to the point that they MUST maintain control and authority over a situation, particularly in any case where there may be a perceived threat to lives. Today's violent, hostile, anti-cop environment only forces the officer to raise his trigger point to deferring to stronger force earlier as a means of maintaining his own safety, not lowering it.
As usual, liberalism always creates the exact opposite of its stated intent. Cops cannot exist and function in the current climate without a high trigger point, not the much lower one BLM and people like you seek, and society cannot survive without police. We can mean well and say all the right things and play around with de-funding police and slapping their wrists for every little thing. It won't last. It won't change a thing. The key to improving better police conduct ULTIMATELY RESIDES WITH THE INDIVIDUAL and society at large, for police do not drive society, society drives police. They are merely a mirror reflection of the society they must serve.
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