dilloduck
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- May 8, 2004
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Police officers should only ever use deadly force when they have no other choice. That should be a given. It may be that police departments 'across the nation' need to reinforce that fundamental guideline to their people.Police shootings are this years shark attacks. By July, the public stomach for consuming the stories will be well saturated and the media will move on. Part of that will be the well drying up....I would imagine that in PDs across the nation, the word is being passed down to not use deadly force unless you have to. If, for no other reason, the politics involved; most Chiefs of Police are appointed by elected officials and, knowing this, the mayors will be riding their top cops hard on this front. It will take months to shake it out to the street level.
The reality is that we have a lot of people who think they know where the line is thanks to the Internet and YouTube and will give peace officers who are just trying to do their job a hard time. Every so often a furtive movement will be read wrong and boom, Al Sharpton is in your town for his own idiotic purposes. Al could care less about the victim or their families.
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I don't think police shootings are flavor of the month: they are obviously happening too often under circumstances that could and should have gone otherwise.
according to your buddies here this kind of stuff goes on all time. Why the recent all coverage ?