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re: President of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance Shot Dead By Cop After Refusing To Drop Knife
Posted on 9/18/17 at 4:34 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 9/18/17 at 4:34 pm to Pettifogger
quote:It's really almost an impossible situation.
But I suspect you agree with me and the other poster who thinks it's likely the chance of serious injury is fairly low
Yea, the odds were probably pretty low there in that very moment the person was shot, I'd agree. But if cops were to be trained to wait until the odds were high, then we'd have a whole bunch of dead cops, so what do we do?
Posted on 9/18/17 at 4:40 pm to shel311
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Yea, the odds were probably pretty low there in that very moment the person was shot, I'd agree. But if cops were to be trained to wait until the odds were high, then we'd have a whole bunch of dead cops, so what do we do?
I tend to side with the cops, particularly in situations like this where any half-reasonable person would have made it out of that confrontation alive.
But, from a raw numbers perspective, if a couple hundred people a year are dying in 1% situations, I think it's reasonable to question if the lines are drawn too starkly in favor of law enforcement.
I agree there aren't any easy answers, and honestly there may be no reasonable changes to be made. But this is a huge national topic, and I think what we're getting at is the heart of the whole thing (more so than profiling, the idea that cops are out hunting for conflict, etc.).
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