Police Killings Debate
The cluster discusses police use of lethal force, particularly shootings of unarmed or non-threatening individuals, accountability for officers, comparisons to murder rates and executions, and criticisms of police impunity versus defenses citing risks to officers.
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you make it sound like the police are a murder cult. they shoot because of a crime incident.
Is killing a police officer worse than killing a "normal" person?
The police aren't supposed to be shooting unarmed people.
Summary execution is not what is happening when a police officer kills someone who is a danger to others.
In many (most?) countries, cops often get away with killing people without actual cause which could justify a non-cop killing a person. And if the person killed is stereotypically disdained (prisoner, member of oppressed ethnic group, homeless person etc.) - then they almost always get away with it.
The police in the US a) don't attack people as often as it feels like, and b) know there is a good chance that the jury won't hold them responsible due a belief that police are inherently good. The police are not a valid comparison population.
I don't see anyone here asking this: how many people are police killing who are not 100% innocent bystanders like in this case, but still didn't need to be killed? I mean, we're all outraged because they shot "some dude in his PJs" but doesn't that imply they must be shooting 10, 100x as many folks where we'd be thinking "well, he shouldn't have had a knife in his hand" or "he shouldn't have been high"?Where I live, small town i
Multiple policemen killing random unarmed people is not the worst?
Reports never killed anybody. You can't kill a person with a report. Police is not some mindless robots that are programmed to kill on a press of a button. They are humans, and they should bear full responsibility for their choices, not somebody who asked them to perform their direct function (for which they are paid from the same person's money, btw).
Not sure why you're getting down voted. It might be true given the number of people killed by the police in the US for whatever reason: http://killedbypolice.net/ and number of people legally executed in the US for various crimes: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2015Some police k