Thinking about this a lot lately. Cops are fed a false narrative about the likelihood of ambushes, which jacks them up. And yet it's also true that American public is more armed and less regulated than almost anywhere else. Mix in racism...such a horrible recipe.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1381694802224422918
Sane reforms would include: Armed police responses reserved to actual threat to life. End bullshit traffic stops and other encounters rife with bias. Require way more stringent training for cops—emphasizing deescalation—and same for way-better regulated gun license holders.
We've done a slew of stories on how police departments embraced "warrior training" and how deadly that has been: motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
Especially in Minneapolis: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
I've been somewhat heartened the Chauvin trial has featured a lot of police officials (inside Mlps PD and elsewhere) breaking down the blue wall of silence.
We cannot leave reform to the cops. But it is more likely to happen if they embrace it too.
We cannot leave reform to the cops. But it is more likely to happen if they embrace it too.
There's also this "we can't let him get away" mentality that's really got to end—as it largely has with high-speed chases. Had Wright "gotten away" so what? They had his plates and his address. Would they have sped through the neighborhood over a ~$300 fine?
Anyway I leave you with this dad in agony over how to protect his boys. Broke me this morning
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