04-23-2021, 01:09 PM
(04-23-2021, 06:44 AM)David Horn Wrote: There is an international commission analyzing the policing in many countries (not all cooperate enough to make analysis possible). One of the primary investigators is a retired judge from the UK, and he was interviewed on NPR. Based on data,, the per capita number of police killings and non-lethal uses of force by police in the US is higher than it is in both Russia and Turkey, neither being paragons of virtue themselves. He cited two reasons: social animosity, which includes but is not limited to racism, and prevalence of guns that make all police interactions dangerous for the police and potentially deadly for both parties.
We're sick. We need to admit it.
Good point. The gun culture must die if America is to be a civil society.
If I were black:
1. I would adhere closely to all traffic regulations.
2. I would not keep a firearm in my car unless I were a sport hunter headed to or returning from the hunt.
3. I would follow police instructions to the letter if stopped. A police stop will be over if you have no reason to be arrested.
4. I would avoid all behavior associated with the criminal element. Even the racist cops recognize that there are some good black people.
5. I would never call a cop some derogatory name (most infamously at one time, "pig".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.