Winston Smith
Praises galore. No more #4
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I recall watching a documentary on the Camden Police. They showed a scene where there was a guy walking down the street with a knife. There are about four cops around him staying about 15 feet away talking to him in a calm voice asking him to put the Knife Down. Nobody Drew their gun and the guy put down his weapon. The cop in the documentary stated if this had happened a year earlier, they would have shot him. I agree that police don't know what they're doing. More training and a better attitude would be the first stepsWhich is one of the reasons we need to stop sending police to take care of these calls. Send someone qualified to help people with mental issues and if they fail and/or violence occurs - then send officers to the scene.
But I see it from both sides. Our police are underqualified/overworked/undertrained/over dependent on force. Our laws and society are set up where underprivileged are often "over policed" as well. These are issues we have at our foundation. It takes slow cultural change to fix.