Operation Just Cuz
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The entire story was worth reading, but the opening image showing two sides of the same officer was worth at least 1,000 words.
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Baltimoreās Gun Task Force: lawless thugs. Jeez that city has problems, continual turnover in city and police leadership.
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Baltimore has its problemsāreally bad onesābut I doubt this is the only area in the US where this is going on.
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Raises hand from Chicago.
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Yeah, I agree. I see Baltimore often because I follow the author of this piece, and I see reports of shootings every day. I wondered if it was the Murder Capital of the U.S., or maybe Chicago, so I looked it up, and that happens to be St. Louis (as a rate per 100,000, for cities over 300,000 population). We all know the problems there with its history of racist policing.
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So I guess that arch thing is a monument to the murdered.
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In response to 2: As long as they feel good and justified about themselves, who cares about the consequences?!
How do you know he hasnāt woken up already?
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I always knew it was a power fantasy for ammosexuals.
There was a video I saw years ago from ABC news I think, where they tested how people with guns would react in a situation with an active shooter. One of the people was a gun owner and went to the range and killed targets all the time. When they did a scenario (shooter comes into a classroom and starts shooting with a paintball gun), this āgood guyā crouched down behind the wall and then froze there. He ended up getting shot even though he had a āgunā as well.
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Like the Parkland deputy, who was bad at his job when it mattered the most?
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I definitely agree that the guy deserved to get fired.
Charging someone for not being able to put their own life in danger at a momentās notice, though, seems cruel. Sure, itās a requirement for doing that job. But when someoneās unsuited for a job, you fire them, you donāt charge them with a crime.
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The stakes for not shooting people have to be high so that the rest of the cops can say, āI had to unload the whole clip into the subject to keep out of prison.ā
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Yep. The guy was ātrainedā to handle a firearm and still fucked it up. Was he scared? Probably. But according to whatās his face from the NRA, this was a āgood guy with a gunā and so should have stopped the shooterā¦
instead 17 people diedā¦
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And note which party has authority over the police of Baltimore (and Chicago, and St Louis, and New York, andā¦).
It isnāt just the GOP. The problem is much bigger than that.
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Peterson was the school resource officer
Well if his role was āresource officerā, he shouldāve been too busy harvesting lumber or mining coal or in some other way gathering resources for the school to be expected to also do police work. (I really, really hate that doublespeak term āresource officerā.)
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Handling a firearm is one skill. Handling it in a situation where you need to use it is another. Shooting at a target is nothing like being under extreme stress and needing to fire accurately. In the moment, your vision distorts from the usual to tunnel vision. Your hearing changes. You are operating with completely different sense perception than usual. You have to train for that distortion.
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This has bothered me since you posted it.
Perhaps you are right.
My sanity has been slipping away slowly. And, in reflection, Iām not a good cultist so Iām not going to be eaten first.
Fuck.
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Hereās that dry British humor/humour on the subject of blunt knives to (supposedly) cut down on domestic violence/murder:
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