Sweetleaf wrote:
sly279 wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
Moretto wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
but I don't think treating your district like it's an active war zone is conducive to a positive outcome.
Well a lot of urban American neighborhoods resemble exactly that. You Swedes should be grateful you don't know what that's like.Quite grateful, I assure you. But if that is the case, then 6-9 months is nowhere near enough training to be even remotely competent to handle such areas, and sending in armed, twitchy and barely competent police officers is just going to be an active detriment.
Our military doesn’t even get thst much training why would police? And who’d be doing the policing for 3 years while people train? They can’t hardly keep enough cops as is in a lot of places.
Well what do you suggest? Does seem there is a pretty high amount of civilians being killed by police so it does seem something needs to be done at least.
It’s not the length of training but how they train. There’s a guy I’d suggest you watch some of his videos he’s a pro gun liberal who was a cop in 80s and refused to be one again after seeing how they train now,
From what I remember
They have meetings every morning about how it’s them vs us, it’s a war out there and we’re the enemy
Better to shoot civilians then take risk of officer getting shot
Got to habe each other’s back, blue first.(ie snitches get stiches, cops don’t rat on each other)
Cops referring to us as civilians while they also civilians, think they above the law and above us but they aren’t.
He’s also pointed out what any smart person should notice, they become very military like and mostly recruiter former military people. Gone are the blue police uniforms, now it’s all Camo and tactical gear. I got pulled over for speeding with friend(them driving) the officer was dressed like a navy seal with a m4 hung on his chest. We don’t need navy seals enforcing traffic laws. Use to be only swat had that stuff and they were small part of the police only used for extreme situations, now it’s most officers and they use swat tactics for just about anything. As that guy said it’s a job with risk and they signed up knownkng the risks, but now they don’t want to take the risks, so it’s better to kill few expendable civilians then lose officer. But that’s the job they suppose to make that ultimate sacrifice to protect us if need be. Use to be they’d go in marked car, dress blues and knock on doors for stuff, now they show up middle of the night, blacked out, no notifications, dressed for war and kick your door in and shoot anything that moves. All to Lower their risks.
We need to go back to police being police not a sub division of the military.
Military is trained to attack and kill, which is why they had such hard job occupying and acting as police in occupied nations. They aren’t trained to do so. And we’ve turned our police into a military force. They have apcs, machine guns, grenade launchers, some even get tanks. That’s another thing we need to stop. Don’t sell military equipment to police. One small station had 5 guys and had gotten 100 rifles and 100 pistols free from government from military stock. They’ve lessened that but the whole program needs stopped. Police need to be police again. I dont know if they should even recruited former military. Again those people are trained to attack and kill. Not exactly what you want police doing.
They need to go back to protecting us not themselves. Though apart of that means we need to like and respect them and not see them as the enemy either.
Swat should be a specialized unit only. My state use to have one swat team. Now every city has one and all their police officers are basically swat anyways.
But it’s a loop hole, see the government can’t use the military on us soil. So simpLe turn the police into a military.
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