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Originally Posted by GGG
What facts am I missing here I’m interested in being educated.
Is 99.99% an acceptable rate of failure? A 1/10,000 chance of killing someone in my opinion is too high of risk and should be considered unacceptable.
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I agree that it's unacceptable, and I think most would agree with that. But we've had this conversation before, and it's been pointed out that failure will happen. So given that failure will happen and it will be unacceptable, the more important question is how you would make clear that it's unacceptable.
You could remove the risk almost entirely, by disarming most officers of lethal weapons, taking wellness checks off the list of duties the police are primarily responsible for and making it the responsibility of another department, etc. You could minimize the risk by increasing the education requirements of the job (formal education, training, etc) or by making the punishments for crossing whatever line you see out so severe that it would reduce any careless action that contributes to the risk.
But just saying "it should be unacceptable" isn't enough to go on. I agree with that, but you have to have a plan to reflect it. What does "unacceptable" look like to you?