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Originally Posted by by Undertoad
...he found that blacks were no more likely to be shot before attacking an officer than non-blacks.
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Completely unrelated are people who *never* attack an officer. Major difference.
Move on to why this apparently exists. Many want to cast blame. Only fewer are proposing solutions based in identifying potential reasons for a problem. Some cops are professionally trained or acting as if everyone is a suspect. As a result, everyone is potential perp - not a friendly citizen. That attitude results in citizens treating cops as adversaries - to act as if a copy is a threat - not as friends or protectors. An attitude of both cop and citizen that caused violent confrontations when a citizen NEVER attacks a cop.
Not 'before' - never. A major difference exists in those two scenarios.
We are not discussing what a majority of cops do - ie less likely to shoot someone. A problem apparently lies with a minority who are likely to be violent when not even attacked. Their emotions perceive a threat that did not exist. Ie and again - your Hummelstown PA video. Where is an attack that justified a shooting? Before or Never?
Please do not combine what are two completely different scenarios. What a majority of cops do is apparently unrelated to what a minority of cops do - too often.