(04-14-2021, 01:58 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: I'm always in favor of getting better at everything, "forming a more perfect union," and all that, and I'm sure the police are going to get better at everything they do.  

But there is a legitimate question: with the number of police in this country, and the number of daily citizen encounters with the police, and the number of cell phones out there videotaping everything in sight, isn't it something of a miracle there are not more incidents like this one?  

I'm not saying we shouldn't be trying to get better at policing, but what is the correct perspective on this stuff?

It's not as prevalent as the race hustlers/politicians would like everyone to believe. There's money to be made and elections to win on this stuff. 

That isn't to say police need better training, but there's a balance between detaining uncooperative and struggling suspects with their own safety as well as the public's. I saw an interview with a retired NYPD detective who said police must be trained to deal with these "new times". What exactly are the new times? 

This was just bad cops on a power trip who had gotten a heightened sense of control because the driver didn't pull over for a mile until he reached a well lit area. Which seems to me would be a positive indication to the cops. There was no excuse for the way they handled this. It was plain bad policing.

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(04-14-2021, 03:15 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(04-14-2021, 01:54 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Yea I remember the outrage from the knockout game years ago...

Dumb people do dumb crap. Sad but unavoidable.

Agreed. It seems like people are getting dumber and meaner though.

The knockout game targeted mainly white people so it was denied to even be a trend by some on the left.

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