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Will Seeing Both Sides Of The Issue Help End Police Brutality?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ana the Ist" data-source="post: 72276379" data-attributes="member: 302807"><p>The conversation on police brutality has a lot of problems...and not listening to the "police" side of the equation is really just one of them.</p><p></p><p>The first problem is the underlying assumption of the conversation that nobody has bothered to figure out....is there actually a problem of "police brutality"? and if so, how big is the problem?</p><p></p><p>The metric used in the OP is the number of deaths at the hands of police...and while certain groups have done a great job in recent years of tracking recording the number of these incidents, I've yet to see any of them break those annual death tolls down into any meaningful statistics. If a significant number of those deaths are either because the police used more force than necessary or made a mistake/broke the law...then yes, it's safe to say that there's a problem with police brutality.</p><p></p><p>If, however, only a small number of those deaths are from excessive force or mistakes/illegality...then "police brutality" isn't really the problem that some make it out to be. The real problem is criminality and the question should change to "why do so many people risk their lives trying to hurt/kill police?"</p><p></p><p>The third option is to look at the individual circumstances of each case, and figure out what laws are at play when a cop legally kills a civilian. If, for example, self defense is at the heart of the issue...and it looks as if the legal standard for self defense is being met and not stretched in some way...then perhaps it's worth considering that the law itself needs to be changed in order to reduce the number of deaths.</p><p></p><p>This is, in my opinion, where the conversation needs to begin...but it doesn't...and instead, those people who have some emotional or financial investment in the controversy are being allowed to steer the conversation towards their own ends.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ana the Ist, post: 72276379, member: 302807"] The conversation on police brutality has a lot of problems...and not listening to the "police" side of the equation is really just one of them. The first problem is the underlying assumption of the conversation that nobody has bothered to figure out....is there actually a problem of "police brutality"? and if so, how big is the problem? The metric used in the OP is the number of deaths at the hands of police...and while certain groups have done a great job in recent years of tracking recording the number of these incidents, I've yet to see any of them break those annual death tolls down into any meaningful statistics. If a significant number of those deaths are either because the police used more force than necessary or made a mistake/broke the law...then yes, it's safe to say that there's a problem with police brutality. If, however, only a small number of those deaths are from excessive force or mistakes/illegality...then "police brutality" isn't really the problem that some make it out to be. The real problem is criminality and the question should change to "why do so many people risk their lives trying to hurt/kill police?" The third option is to look at the individual circumstances of each case, and figure out what laws are at play when a cop legally kills a civilian. If, for example, self defense is at the heart of the issue...and it looks as if the legal standard for self defense is being met and not stretched in some way...then perhaps it's worth considering that the law itself needs to be changed in order to reduce the number of deaths. This is, in my opinion, where the conversation needs to begin...but it doesn't...and instead, those people who have some emotional or financial investment in the controversy are being allowed to steer the conversation towards their own ends. [/QUOTE]
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