some1saveusnow

some1saveusnow t1_j549mbf wrote

It’s a good point. The next step is disarming people without killing them. Best practices could resemble more surefire non lethal devices, and more sound non aggressive first response techniques (dialogue, which was mentioned by the police speaking at the special hearing acknowledging this could be better overall). We currently do not have these however, and that is not the fault of the officers that were on the ground that day

1

some1saveusnow t1_j549542 wrote

It’s 1000% being used as an excuse to push the anti police budget/ anti armed police agenda. You have to keep in mind that this is Cambridge, a city with some EXTREMELY far left thinkers in city government, in a city that NEVER has an opportunity to go after the police like this. They took their chance. Zondervan is a means to an end thinker who doesn’t care how he gets to his policies, he just wants to do it. It’s interesting that in the past ten years or so Councillor Simmons is repeatedly having to reign in a lot of the fervor that comes out of this council during discourse

Azeem did ask some pertinent questions I thought, like why couldn’t more non lethal rounds get deployed. The police responded that they require time to do so. They also got into why aiming at legs/arms/extremities is not an overall safe thing to do for anyone involved or around the scene.

5

some1saveusnow t1_j4ghm66 wrote

Time for you to brush up on the legal system, and also check the actual police stats of how most interactions result and how they get adjudicated when they become controversial. In short, stop just checking headlines because you can’t see the forest for the trees

1

some1saveusnow t1_j3pzk6z wrote

Reply to comment by Lurking4Justice in CPD shooting by unclechuqule

So everyone that has a job with risk isn’t entitled to mitigating that risk with reasonable safety measures? It’s the dumbest most roundly circulated anti-police rhetoric that’s out there, and it’s all over these kinds of posts

1

some1saveusnow t1_j3pzecm wrote

Reply to comment by S_thyrsoidea in CPD shooting by unclechuqule

Social media has hijacked the minds of the topically uninformed on so many issues, and either displaced the truth with inaccuracy or exaggerated viral stories into believing they are statistical norm. Progressives have also fallen victim to this, in the case of police conduct at large in the USA, as a whole. What you’re hearing in this sub on this issue could not be a clearer example of that, and it’s the reaction in nearly every liberal city’s sub whenever an issue involving mortal police enforcement ever arises no matter what the circumstances and no matter what evidence has been brought to light.

2

some1saveusnow t1_j3pygxj wrote

When you become a mortal threat you cede some leniency in what you seem to be innocuously framing as “mental health crisis”. Unfortunately that’s where we are as a society in 2023, maybe that will change with different tactics eventually but it’s not current operating procedure

0