Official Protest Thread

[SvennoJ]

JWeinCom said:

SvennoJ said:

So he should be retrained to do a better job and not react the way he did ;)

I've always been baffled by the police car chases in the US. Maybe in the 50s people could actually get away yet nowadays with police helicopters, traffic cameras, instant license plate look up, cross country collaboration, no reason to put others in danger
https://www.thefinelawfirm.com/people-killed-in-police-chases/

Yes, there are fundamental problems in how the police in the US is educated.

He should be fired, as he was. Things like this are going to happen, and the appropriate action (at least partially) was taken. Would it be taken without protest?  I don't know.

I don't know enough about police training to say there are fundamental problems. Not sure you do either. I'm not saying there aren't, but I'd need a lot more data to decide that. 

I don't know much about police training indeed, I only see the results which aren't pretty. It's a fundamental problem since it (excessive force, lack of de-escalation, bad decisions) keeps happening. When an accident happens in the airline industry (deadly outcome or not) and it turns out to be a problem in miscommunication or crew training, training procedures will be changed, regulations are changed and whole airline companies can close over bad practices to make sure the same thing doesn't happen again.

We have decades of data from incidents, comparisons with incidents with other countries can't be explained away because people in the USA are just bad people. There are plenty bugs in the system. Perhaps the USA needs to go back to a partner system, always 2 cops together. That would make it a lot safer for both already and far less need to use weapons to subdue people.