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Where you lose me is the phrase “In case you are wondering why traffic stops are the way they are, this is why.” What does that mean? That police are aggressive and sometimes violent as a result of the extraordinary danger they face from civilians? In 2019, 89 cops were killed in the line of duty. That same year, 51 people were shot to death at school. Farmers are twice as likely to be killed on the job.
I don’t mean to be dismissive of the dangers police officers face, but rather to be realistic: they have an obligation to not be incautious with the life of the person they are engaged with, and a video like the one above doesn’t invalidate that obligation for any other incident or officer.
What struck me most about that video was that gun violence is rampant in America, and that this officer’s death is a tragic addition to that story.
By "front and center" you mean 4 RMers used the term in a 4200 post thread? No one gives a fuck what this fringe group thinks.
Besides, you're right, we could protect more cops from white guys with AKs by killing more black men for tinted windows before they get out of their car.
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By "front and center" you mean 4 RMers used the term in a 4200 post thread? No one gives a fuck what this fringe group thinks.
Besides, you're right, we could protect more cops from white guys with AKs by killing more black men for tinted windows before they get out of their car.
If you were to review the photo evidence from the violent riots occurring over the last twelve months you would find that acronym not "fringe" at all.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
By "front and center" you mean 4 RMers used the term in a 4200 post thread? No one gives a fuck what this fringe group thinks.
Besides, you're right, we could protect more cops from white guys with AKs by killing more black men for tinted windows before they get out of their car.
If you were to review the photo evidence from the violent riots occurring over the last twelve months you would find that acronym not "fringe" at all.
I'm actually surprised B doesn't have that one in his repertoire.
Where you lose me is the phrase “In case you are wondering why traffic stops are the way they are, this is why.” What does that mean? That police are aggressive and sometimes violent as a result of the extraordinary danger they face from civilians? In 2019, 89 cops were killed in the line of duty. That same year, 51 people were shot to death at school. Farmers are twice as likely to be killed on the job.
I don’t mean to be dismissive of the dangers police officers face, but rather to be realistic: they have an obligation to not be incautious with the life of the person they are engaged with, and a video like the one above doesn’t invalidate that obligation for any other incident or officer.
What struck me most about that video was that gun violence is rampant in America, and that this officer’s death is a tragic addition to that story.
Sure, but as a another data point to consider, three officers were shot but not killed during a traffic stop this morning:
So the threat is absolutely real to officers and though that does not excuse the type of aggression we saw in the recent case of the army medic in Virginia, every stop should be treated as a potentially deadly situation until determined to be otherwise as opposed to assuming it's safe, because only one of those is a reversible decision for the cop.
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I feel like I keep track of conservative media pretty well, but I've had to look up ACAB every time I saw it here, and I still can't remember. Something about bastards?
Also, I had basically the same thought as McP. Obviously cops face danger, and they should prepare for the worst, but if traffic stops are dangerous because cops are too nervous/anxious expecting stuff like this, that's a real problem. This is not reflective of routine traffic stops - it's that one in a million chance.
I feel like I keep track of conservative media pretty well, but I've had to look up ACAB every time I saw it here, and I still can't remember. Something about bastards?
Also, I had basically the same thought as McP. Obviously cops face danger, and they should prepare for the worst, but if traffic stops are dangerous because cops are too nervous/anxious expecting stuff like this, that's a real problem. This is not reflective of routine traffic stops - it's that one in a million chance.
Getting killed by a drug dealer with a high powered rifle during a traffic stop is rare, but that's not the point. Here's some data:
Roughly one in ten officers reported being assaulted in the line of duty each year. That is more than frequent enough to presume every situation is dangerous.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
I feel like I keep track of conservative media pretty well, but I've had to look up ACAB every time I saw it here, and I still can't remember. Something about bastards?
Joined: Fri January 04, 2013 1:46 am Posts: 2837 Location: Connecticut
Bi_3 wrote:
Rob wrote:
I feel like I keep track of conservative media pretty well, but I've had to look up ACAB every time I saw it here, and I still can't remember. Something about bastards?
Also, I had basically the same thought as McP. Obviously cops face danger, and they should prepare for the worst, but if traffic stops are dangerous because cops are too nervous/anxious expecting stuff like this, that's a real problem. This is not reflective of routine traffic stops - it's that one in a million chance.
Getting killed by a drug dealer with a high powered rifle during a traffic stop is rare, but that's not the point. Here's some data:
Roughly one in ten officers reported being assaulted in the line of duty each year. That is more than frequent enough to presume every situation is dangerous.
I get what you're saying, and I am not trying to downplay the danger, but that data you posted showed that 2 of every 3 of those incidents of assault end with no injury to the officer. It's a dangerous job, yes. And everyone, including the officer, is less safe if cops can't maintain the highest of standards.
As the wise Dave Chapelle once said - "that's not a blue life, it's a blue suit. You can take it off any time you want."
By "front and center" you mean 4 RMers used the term in a 4200 post thread? No one gives a fuck what this fringe group thinks.
Besides, you're right, we could protect more cops from white guys with AKs by killing more black men for tinted windows before they get out of their car.
If you were to review the photo evidence from the violent riots occurring over the last twelve months you would find that acronym not "fringe" at all.
I'm actually surprised B doesn't have that one in his repertoire.
isn't that the acronym B kept screwing up? explains the disconnect.
Farmers are twice as likely to be killed on the job.
Farmers are not killed intentionally. They generally killed via workplace health and safety violations (often from their own stupid acts). Far different from how police officers are killed.
Farmers die on the job. Police are killed.
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I feel like I keep track of conservative media pretty well, but I've had to look up ACAB every time I saw it here, and I still can't remember. Something about bastards?
Also, I had basically the same thought as McP. Obviously cops face danger, and they should prepare for the worst, but if traffic stops are dangerous because cops are too nervous/anxious expecting stuff like this, that's a real problem. This is not reflective of routine traffic stops - it's that one in a million chance.
Getting killed by a drug dealer with a high powered rifle during a traffic stop is rare, but that's not the point. Here's some data:
Roughly one in ten officers reported being assaulted in the line of duty each year. That is more than frequent enough to presume every situation is dangerous.
I get what you're saying, and I am not trying to downplay the danger, but that data you posted showed that 2 of every 3 of those incidents of assault end with no injury to the officer. It's a dangerous job, yes. And everyone, including the officer, is less safe if cops can't maintain the highest of standards.
As the wise Dave Chapelle once said - "that's not a blue life, it's a blue suit. You can take it off any time you want."
I think we are on the same page here. You cannot reduce the violence inflicted on officers without reducing the violence inflicted by officers.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22548 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
[quote="Bi_3"If you were to review the photo evidence from the violent riots occurring over the last twelve months you would find that acronym not "fringe" at all.[/quote]
ACAB sounds cool, but I'm more of a "We Should Demand More Accountability From The Individuals To Whom We Give Money And A Large Amount Of Power For The Purposes Of Protecting Us" kinda guy.
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_________________ Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
Imagine posting this after what happened AGAIN in Minneapolis. Unreal.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Imagine posting this after what happened AGAIN in Minneapolis. Unreal.
We don't empathize with cops!
He means the rampant rioting, looting, and arson that occurred before any details of the event were released.
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