I recently got wind of this story about a college student who was shot dead by police who were trying to arrest him for stealing 2 Playstation 3’s on November 17th from another college student. (This is when you should read or at least skim the article for the details)
As I interpret this story, this is just another painfully frustrating example of extremely poor decision making on the cops. It seems as though they had very poor threat assessment and generally poor arresting procedure, likely a result of poor training. This is what happens when any jack-off can go to any hole-in-the-wall community college for 2 years while working his shitty fast-food job to finance it and come out with a shiny new badge and a gun (with a fancy holster, no less). These days, cops will describe anything as a life-threatening situation in order to defend their morbid actions. Even worse, juries will often buy it. The additional variable of the German shepherd (also shot and killed) does not surprise me in the least. I know from personal experience that law enforcement officers will freak out when a citizen just happens to own a German shepherd, whether it is truly a threatening situation or not. I understand that they are probably trained to be careful around large and potentially dangerous animals, but that doesn’t imply that every single animal that fits that description necessarily is dangerous.
Before you get ahead of yourself, Mr. (or Mrs.) Anonymous Reader, don’t even bother generalizing my statements to make it sound like I hate all cops or I believe cops can go around killing whoever they want without any repercussions. My point is simply that the situation described in the news article bothers me quite a bit and I’m sick of seeing shit like that going down as often as it is, or ever. Honestly, becoming a law enforcement officer should require more education and once the officer has his job, he should be continually attending various training and educational sessions regarding all sorts of topics that would improve their law enforcing skills. In all practicality, however, that is not going to happen. My conclusion? Anarchy rules all. When entropy makes the world go around, as it always does, my strategy is to have more firepower than the other guy (whoever the other guy might be).
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