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Originally Posted by 4X4
Lanny, you must be kidding. You don't know when to comply without completely understanding the language? Please.
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Not kidding at all. Civilians have been killed, and officers careers ended because the communication channel was blocked by a language barrier. When someone is ordered to do something, and they don't do it, the officer becomes just as prone to a mistake as the suspect. The individual can make a move for his identification, or something else, and the officer can make an error because the suspect was not following orders and the officer viewed himself at risk. There have been several instances of that very thing happening in Phoenix over the past four years. Communcation failures are a bg problem.