St. Louis: White Missouri cop kills armed black 18-year-old

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Please quit with this straw man, Pat. It's unworthy of you.

John

All I'm saying is we have expectations of our cops to act like programmed, infallible robots on the mean streets of America. Having lived in northern Europe for 11 years and the reminder of my life in relatively dangerous American cities, it's simply ridiculous to expect our cops to act like their counterparts in (relatively crime-free) northern European countries.

I can assure you that I'd much prefer living in a relatively safe, mostly unarmed society with far fewer social problems and not one where we use legions of armed cops to address our seemingly intractable social ills. Yet, unless and until we solve these problems, armed cops and the attendant fuck-ups associated with them will remain part of the American fabric. Get used to it.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

All I'm saying is we have expectations of our cops to act like programmed, infallible robots on the mean streets of America.

I know that's what you're saying. It's not true.

John

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I know that's what you're saying. It's not true.

John

It is in the sense that we seem to be asking for infallibility in their judgments as to what represents a perceived threat.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

All I'm saying is we have expectations of our cops to act like programmed, infallible robots on the mean streets of America. Having lived in northern Europe for 11 years and the reminder of my life in relatively dangerous American cities, it's simply ridiculous to expect our cops to act like their counterparts in (relatively crime-free) northern European countries.

I can assure you that I'd much prefer living in a relatively safe, mostly unarmed society with far fewer social problems and not one where we use legions of armed cops to address our seemingly intractable social ills. Yet, unless and until we solve these problems, armed cops and the attendant fuck-ups associated with them will remain part of the American fabric. Get used to it.

Price of freedom.