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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Hopefully with everything that happened, investigations into shootings will be more open and transparent, I think that's a major step that has to happen.
I don't know how there was a real escalation in a chaotic situation like that. There was a very real threat to the pinned girl and the officer.
I think there is a discussion to have because in the last few days there's been points made that cops should be willing to jeopardize themselves rushing people with knives, and I think guns, or rushing into blind situation. While I agree that with Police officers they have to be willing to take heroic action, just like fire fighters rushing into fires. I don't know if that should be standing procedure though. making it standard procedure to rush into potentially fatal situations in that manner is going to lead to a lot of trauma and tragedy.
I still think that any comprehensive reform the police movement, has to include increased mental health and trauma resources for police officers, as well as the usual fair in terms of better recruiting and training.
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Another part of this is the type of people that tend to gravitate towards policing are often ex-military. That's a huge problem IMO given that you're trying to retrain soldiers who have been programmed for everything to be a threat. I'd love to dig into some statistics on that.
It's also important why the cop was called to the scene and the information he's getting from dispatch. He is already amped up for a dangerous situation. So while we see that the cop jumped out of his car and shot the girl in less than 15 seconds, he's already gotten tons of information on the way there.