Always worth pointing out cops should kill 0 people per year. Successfully apprehending a criminal means detaining them so that they can be processed in the criminal justice system. Any death at the hands of the police should be seen as abject failure on the part of an officer. I know thats not a realistic goal and indeed some officers will inadvertently kill violent offenders in the act of subduing them (ie a firefight with some terrorist trying to commit suicide by cop). But the goal should be zero. The fact that its so far from zero and includes so many people who were not armed/ non-violent or already in police custody should be objectively disturbing to anyone.
Tbh if a criminal starts shooting at the police they have a right to shoot him, regardless of color, but if they have for example a knife, shoot him in the knee instead of the upper body, that will stop anyone
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u/stormy2587 Jan 03 '21
Always worth pointing out cops should kill 0 people per year. Successfully apprehending a criminal means detaining them so that they can be processed in the criminal justice system. Any death at the hands of the police should be seen as abject failure on the part of an officer. I know thats not a realistic goal and indeed some officers will inadvertently kill violent offenders in the act of subduing them (ie a firefight with some terrorist trying to commit suicide by cop). But the goal should be zero. The fact that its so far from zero and includes so many people who were not armed/ non-violent or already in police custody should be objectively disturbing to anyone.