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Originally Posted by L-Pink
* A large percentage of cops need better training and evaluating of their reactions under pressure. Not something easy or inexpensive to do. Stress/fear/adrenaline rush affects everyone differently and how do you realistically recreate that for training?
* Criminals shouldn't be criminals but if they are and get caught they need to peacefully surrender to live another day. The cops are just a go between of the criminal and the courts. All a suspect will do by resisting is get shot or have more charges to face. Save your energy for court.
* The problem doesn't start with the police it starts with someone breaking the law. I break laws all the time. Some laws need revised. Some I break with full knowledge of consequences. But the laws I break are my fault and my fault only. Any reaction I provoke from the cop arresting me will undoubtably be my fault as well.
* If you are breaking the law, resisting arrest will just bring out the asshole in any cop. Combine this with some cops that freak under pressure and the shooting problem will never go away.
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nice post
In my younger days (20+ years ago while a very different person) I was an out and out criminal, and while I never had to worry about being shot, if it was obvious I was caught, I used to 'come quietly' as they say
All I'll add is, I was only ever an asshole upon arrest if they were - it's like a game of sorts... I do my shit, they try to stop me - or at least catch me after the fact. I don't need to be an asshole because I got caught, that's just being a prick. If they turn out to be an asshole when they've actually won their fucking part of the game lol, then they'll get it back (fruitless as it is, that's just *my* ego kicking in).
Not only are most cops bad losers, they are also those fucking godawful gloating-type winners... in my experience that was 90% of them, of course you had the few who understood it wasn't personal and where there was a kind of mutual respect of the other one's 'job'
