If people were educated on how to act around police there would be better outcomes, amirite?

If police were educated on how to act around people there would be better outcomes.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

If police were taught to deescalate instead of the ‘better to be judged by twelve than carried by six' mentality, there would be better outcomes. How many people need to be shot, who have their hands up and are actively shouting ‘I am unarmed, I am cooperating,' before people like OP start to think maaaaaybe policing in this country needs to change?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

What's easier — training milions of citizens on how to survive encounter with people that are supposed to protect them or just not having the police be a gang above the law?

by Educational-Bed-3152 1 day ago

Do you think that the majority of police are bad people?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's not about the people but the institution. It doesn't matter how many "good ones" there are if they serve as a PR shield for the rest of the gang.

by Educational-Bed-3152 1 day ago

Yes. If you see your coworkers abusing people, breaking the law, racially profiling, and doing other awful things, and you go out of your way to defend them or keep voting for union leadership who defends them, you're a bad person. Police are literally trained to treat citizens as an enemy. Here's one popular example but there are many others. When a teacher is accused of assaulting a student you don't see the teacher's union trying to get them to keep their job.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Yes, since it's so rare for them to call out their own on bad behaviour. Even a cop that's never personally hurt anyone is bad if they turn a blind eye to the abuses of others.

by BarnacleInformal 1 day ago

This is an uneducated argument. Even when individuals cooperate with the knowledge of how to interact with police, they can still be injured or killed by officers who face no punishment afterwards.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

People get brutally murdered and abused without consequence and your solution is to be more polite so this doesn't happen as often? Godamn this is some boot behavior. I'm staying far away from your country if this is your coping mechanism.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

As always, the random civilian needs to be better trained and behave more responsibly than the law officer with a gun whose job it is to do this whole thing.

by Upbeat_District2935 1 day ago

It's an IQ & emotional regulation test. Why waste taxpayer's money 'educating' people on something that comes down to that?

by Free_Tax 1 day ago

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by monserratehirth 1 day ago