04-19-2021, 09:24 PM
rjmacs wrote:
Natch.
We'd also all do better to realize that while police can be useful, there are many other options for addressing problems in communities. Good people or not, police are embedded in systems that have been hijacked to cause disproportionate harm to anyone fed into them. Like chemotherapy, they should be considered a major and risky intervention, not a first-line treatment.
Hey, if people are calling emergency 911 for anything less than a life or death situation, that's on people. Not the police. People think everything is an emergency and if municipalities enforced the purpose of 911, we wouldn't have as many problems The proper authorities can be dispatched. I think most people see the benefit of that. They wouldn't tolerate it for firefighters. Most cop shootings revolve around domestic disputes and is the most likely way cops get killed themselves. Passions run high and it's very unpredictable. That kind of thing needs to be figured out.
My mother's cousin was killed by LA County Sheriff's deputies in a landmark case. You can see how Maxine Waters have always been there for justice. https://www.mic.com/articles/174565/maxi...ed-in-1979