A Thread About Police

I'm glad that at least some of the officers are being prosecuted. I hope they'll be vigorously prosecuted, too.

Of course it's terrible for Tyre and his loved ones. I had trouble sleeping for one night after seeing that. They probably see it every time they close their eyes, and every fond memory they have of Tyre is probably followed by their memories of the videos.

As a society, I don't expect us to actually implement positive policing reform. So many Americans don't care. So many Americans support the police "punishing the bad guys." So many Americans are afraid that any new restrictions on police will result in more crime. So many Americans don't have specific ideas or practical ideas about what positive policing reform should entail, let alone how to bring it about. By and large, we'll express outrage on social media, and some people will protest, and then we'll go back to watching sports and Netflix - until the next incident of police brutality that gets mainstream media coverage.

We need widespread changes in personnel - in law enforcement agencies and in all levels of government (particularly local and state government). It's not just a problem with training (especially from the standpoint that "these officers just needed more training so they would've learned that it's not okay to give people extrajudicial punishment"). Our law enforcement agencies and our governments in general have way too many foul people, and we need to do the long, hard work to change that. For starters, we need to try to make it safer for officers to be good officers in the face of officer misconduct. We should even provide incentives. It doesn't make sense to expect decent people to go into law enforcement, when the environment is so toxic and possibly even dangerous from within.

Asshole...

Milwaukee officer killed in shootout chasing robbery suspect on probation

www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-police-officer-dead-14th-cleveland

...they signed up for this.

Communities mourn loss of two officers in Barron County

www.weau.com/2023/04/10/communities-mourn-loss-two-officers-barron-county/

edition.cnn.com/2023/04/07/us/new-mexico-police-shooting-wrong-house/index.html

Maybe they need some more training

Terrible.

www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/public-defender-da-antioch-police/3206129/

I'm sure it's not like that anywhere else

www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-overdose-misinformation

Cops lie

Lol