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Originally Posted by Brando
I wholly agree that crime and poverty are very closely related. We most definitely need to invest in low income communities. Especially in the schools. They also need to do more prison reform and quit locking up people for small possession and most non-violent crimes. The black community needs more fathers in their homes and less in jails. I disagree about the police though. The police need better and more training. We cannot expect them to make the right decision every time in highly stressful, life or death situations, with dangerous criminals when they are getting as poor of training as they are. Some agencies only give their officers 5 simmunition training scenarios once every three years, and they only shoot their firearms for practice once a year. Many do zero de-escalation training. This is a very difficult job when you factor in the danger aspect. Our officers need more funding if anything. There are many great LEO’s out there willing to take a bullet for strangers. There are many bad ones as well. Can’t paint them all with same brush.
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I have a great deal of respect for the good cops that are out there, my life was saved by two of them. But you also have to realize that moving that money into other areas will ease their burden too, because they are asked to do several things that they aren't trained for. That money could be used to train social workers to go with police for things like welfare checks. I agree wholeheartedly about deescalation training, it is something that is desperately needed, using their gun should always be a last resort.