St Johns police successfully stop suicide by murdering man in his own bed

[FSUTribe76]

Is this what's really stopping them from popping a few randos? The nuisance of "hey if I shoot this dude, I'm gonna fill out another friggin TPS report, meh."

Yes. See the end of Kung Fury.

 

[vevois23]

Is this what's really stopping them from popping a few randos? The nuisance of "hey if I shoot this dude, I'm gonna fill out another friggin TPS report, meh."

Its honestly a lot closer to the truth than some, especially those in the media, would like to believe. Look at it this way: According to DOJ research from 2013 (most recent year of stats I could find) there are just under half a million sworn officers at local police departments. This doesn't this doesn't include those of Sheriff Depts, so roughly double that number to between 900k and 1M sworn officers in this country. Though that doesn't include state officers like FDLE, or campus officers like FSUPD, or Federal officers like DEA, FBI, etc. Out of all of those sanctioned, gun-toting people why isn't there more instances of problems? We have heard of what? Half a dozen police shootings this year? Given the population size in comparison to the law enforcement size, given the prevailing climate that "Cops are bad" why doesn't the data support that?

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5279

 

[KitingHigh]

What data? The government goes out of its way to not track police abuses and homocides. The FBI keeps data on "justified" homocides only. Even then they only use data voluntarily given by police agencies. They ignore everything else including wrong address raids, innocent bystanders killed in shootings and chases, "accidental" deaths by taser or beatdowns, etc. the real numbers are hidden behind "the thin blue line.

 

[tommynole3476]

Its honestly a lot closer to the truth than some, especially those in the media, would like to believe. Look at it this way: According to DOJ research from 2013 (most recent year of stats I could find) there are just under half a million sworn officers at local police departments. This doesn't this doesn't include those of Sheriff Depts, so roughly double that number to between 900k and 1M sworn officers in this country. Though that doesn't include state officers like FDLE, or campus officers like FSUPD, or Federal officers like DEA, FBI, etc. Out of all of those sanctioned, gun-toting people why isn't there more instances of problems? We have heard of what? Half a dozen police shootings this year? Given the population size in comparison to the law enforcement size, given the prevailing climate that "Cops are bad" why doesn't the data support that?

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5279

Sorry, but you're not paying attention if you've only heard about a half dozen police shootings.

 

[More Kirk Less Spock]

"Bob likes to shoot people more than average."[/QUOTE]

made me laugh.