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Originally Posted by aka123
Well, that would be the NEWS!! if being killed by a cop would be very likely. Then you guys would have to establish anti-police-police and hope that it doesn't backfire as well.
I don't know about your sense of justice, but my sense of justice doesn't justify people being shot at just because they did something stupid.
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I won't for a second try to argue that some police shootings are wrong, illegal and the people doing them should be punished. I also won't argue that in some cases the police department covers things up or in some way finds a way to justify the shooting without a proper investigation.
Many cities, like the one I live in, now have citizen review boards for police shootings so there is a little more accountability to the public.
The bottom line is that the police need more training, but many departments are underfunded and the police are under-trained. Better leadership and better training might help decrease the number of people killed by the police per year.
All that said, when you look at the big picture and you see the number of crimes committed every year and the number of people arrested and you compare that to the number of people killed by the police, the number killed almost seems low to me.
Then again, I also know that with some people it doesn't matter what they do, the cops can't win and will always be the bad guy.