Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
Training ain't it.Two thoughts on it: First, I suspect we'll see some changes in the rules of policing, and that would include training and accountability. There seems to be enough momentum for this to happen, but I don't know that it's going to definitely going to improve anything.
Second, we're still light years from having "an honest conversation on race" in this country, so this process is going to be rough, loud, divided and ugly. Seems to me that we have to make advances on race relations -- the big picture -- before anything positive sticks.
They've been training and training and training and training, for decades on decades now and it hasn't done a damn thing, the brutality has only gotten worse.
The thing that will stop these racist bastards in their tracks is punishment.
1. They get convicted and do hard time to life for these offenses.
2. Have their money taken away. (aka they're able to get the pants sued off of them)
After that happens to about 3 or 4 of them in a row, the rest will miraculously whip themselves into shape.
Largely, you are correctamundo here. Police officers are learning to stay out of trouble and avoid sticky situations so this kind of bad news doesn't happen to them like it did with Officer Chauvin - or Officer Wilson in Ferguson who lost his career- or countless others who have been punished even when exonerated. Had Chauvin been proclaimed innocent today, he would have still been out of a job and out of the fortune it cost him to defend himself.
Police officers are learning to avoid troublesome situations, and are indeed learning that the Black Man is America's Sacred Cow and to tread gently around them.
Police Officers are learning it's risky to do their job. They're learning that the safe thing to do is do nothing at all. The Left thinks this is going to improve the lives of Black people living in urban areas? The Left are as naive about Policing as they are about economics. What they think is a good thing is going to result in an outcome that's cataclysmic.
Crime rates soared in Ferguson and Minneapolis.....liberals can't figure out why.