re: Man dead after refusing to show police ID

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reckon it's time to exit this thread, as comprehension and objectivity finds itself more and more scarce.

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how do local hiring practices increase people going to jail?

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Well.. you just proved yourself to be at the very least, ignorant, and one to jump to wrong conclusions.

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Police just collect evidence and bring in criminals.
Yet in this case they did neither. The killed an innocent man.

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But Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings calls the actions of his officers "reasonable."

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But Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings calls the actions of his officers "reasonable."

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Looking at the statistics, there can be few other conclusions. Our CJ system fricking sucks.]Are you trying to say we just have a much worse class of citizen than every other nation in the world?

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What uninstigated cause could he have for fighting the cops?

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maybe, we also have a higher incident of murder than a lot of other countries that we are being compared to.

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- The single largest driver in the increase in the federal prison population since 1998 is longer sentences for drug offenders.
- The average inmate in minimum-security federal prison costs $21,000 each year. The average inmate in maximum-security federal prisons costs $33,000 each year.
- Federal prison costs are expected to rise to 30 percent of the Department of Justice's budget by 2020 .
- Sens. Dick Durbin, Pat Leahy, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul have all endorsed legislation to give federal judges more flexibility when sentencing non-violent offenders. Holder backs the bill, too.
- The most serious charge against 51 percent of those inmates is a drug offense. Only four percent are in for robbery and only one percent are in for homicide.
- The most serious charge against 20 percent of state-prison inmates is a drug offense. That's much lower than the 51 percent in federal prisons, though it's still larger than any other single category of offense in state prisons.

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Over the past two decades, no area of state government expenditures
has increased as rapidly as prisons and jails. Justice Department
data released on March 15, 1999 show that the number of prisoners
in America has more than tripled over the last two decades from
500,000 to 1.8 million, with states like California and Texas
experiencing eightfold prison population increases during that time.
America's overall prison population now exceeds the combined
populations of Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
What is most disturbing about the prison population explosion is
that the people being sent to prison are not the Ted Bundies, Charlie
Mansons, and Timothy McVeighs - or even less sensationalized
robbers, rapists, and murders - that the public imagines them to be.
Most are defendants who have been found guilty of nonviolent and
not particularly serious crimes that do not involve any features that
agitate high levels of concern in the minds of the public

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I hate seeing people die when its not necessary. Like this case. This is over an ID. A freaking ID. Who gives a shite if he shows his ID

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A Texas woman was dragged screaming to a police car in Austin, Texas after being arrested for failing to provide ID while jaywalking.

The woman, pulled to a police car in gym clothes, was captured on video shouting, “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

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