Imagine- if you will ..

[Dill]

(02-25-2021, 09:52 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: All I can say is that if I am a cop in high crime area, my butt is going to be ultra cautious 24/7.  You can't even sit in your patrol car without some animal thinking it's ok to take you out.

Were all of the slayings in my examples in "high crime areas"?

Especially disturbing are incidents in which people have died AFTER they have been restrained.

The police dept. of Ferguson Missouri was sued and placed in receivership because of its ongoing, systematic violation of
Black Ferguson residents' rights.  Investigations of the department determined that a large part of the problem was poor police
training, in addition to a police "culture" which tolerated a double standard when it came to civil rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/10/ferguson-demands-changes-to-agreement-reforming-police-tactics-justice-dept-criticizes-unnecessary-delay/

When we start talking about the malfeasance of entire police departments, we begin moving away from the "isolated incidents" hypothesis, which really has little explanatory power if one is trying to understand why conflicts with police lead to community protests.

I'd add that if the police in any community are going to sit people in patrol cars in "high crime areas," then they may need more training than police who don't regularly do that.

But even more importantly, other causes of crime need to be addressed to reduce or eliminate the "high crime" designation. One has little chance of doing that if one assumes that people are just animals who sometimes kill each other. Why do the animals in low crime areas choose not to kill each other, or protest police?