• Ooops@feddit.org
    41·
    2 days ago

    Police are explicitly trained to keep firing until the person at the very least collapses, and will often shoot people on the ground if it looks like they are reaching for or aiming a weapon.

    Which is the sane thing to do.

    Not investing the time to train them properly so they can judge situations correctly but indeed ingrain the idea that everyone is out to kill them is the problem. In a society where everyone can indeed suddenly draw a gun on you even more so.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      21·
      2 days ago

      I believe it is mandatory for an aspiring officer to serve a certain length of time as a CO in a prison before they’re given a job interacting with the public on the street. This would explain why the most of them are all so neurotic, I would be too if I had to deal with violent offenders all day.