(06-07-2020, 10:11 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 08:23 PM)JackCity Wrote: Cool. It hasn't worked at all based on the evidence of the past week. 

The military gear directly contributed to the escalation of peaceful protests and brutality inflicted on peaceful protestors by police. Also tear gassing at your first point of contact with a peaceful crowd should be the antithesis of modern policing. 

The important part of your last paragraph is that background checks need to maintain while the officer is active , too many loose cannons allowed to continue working.. Police offers are more likely to be involved in domestic violence cases at home for a reason, better psychological testing can be done very easily, but of course the mental profile they deem acceptable is part of the problem

You take all the blame away from the protestors. Atlanta PD, and many other agencies, refrained from using anything until [BLEEP] hit the fan. I’m fact, CNN was all over the news taking about how well Atlanta handled the protests because they didn’t come out in riot gear. Until thirty minutes later when the peaceful protest devolved into madness like many of them do. Then they had to bring the gear. 

What is their acceptable mental profile? The job requires a person capable of being violent. I agree that many situations can be deescalated, but that isn’t often what happens. And any job that requires you to see the things they see will task anyone’s mental capabilities. It’s changes people. It isn’t simple to eliminate bad officers based strictly on their personalities. They do need more mental help, but I don’t think we’ll agree on what kind of person the job requires.

Tear gassing peaceful protesters was a country wide tactic (including Jacksonville) , that's an escalation tactic and also there are literally thousands of videos of police abusing peaceful protesters. Not sure how many you watched but cops were showing up head to toe in gear to meet with peaceful protestors (again an escalation tactic). 

unfortunately it's a job where you can't afford to have anything but the highest standards. sure you need people who are prepared to be physical but needs be, but that is useless without control, which is why so many cops beat their wives relative to normal humans. As Chris Rock says some jobs you can't afford "bad apples", cops can't afford to just let anyone in and remain despite a litany of errors.

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