I do not want to start a shit storm of sound like an insensitive jerk here .


In pure mathematical term we will never totally eliminate accidental shootings. It is statistically impossible. All that can be done is do everything to move the percentage towards zero as much as possible. This is a two way street,both sides-civilian and officer- will need to work to make that number shrink. It is not possible to make the number the smallest possible with out both sides working to do so.
So there are 809000 people in the USA with arrest powers that we will call police officers. Lets say they have 1 interaction per hour that might involve possibility to escalation.Might be more or less depending on area but we are looking for a mean. so that works out to 7086840000 interactions per year. There where 1000 shootings where death was involved,so if we increase that number by 6 fold
to show total number of shootings we get 6000 number of police involved shootings per year. We get 1 shooting per 1181140 interaction. That is a fairly decent number. Now I am just doing a quick calculation so I am doing Raw numbers not taking race into account.
There are numerous was to decrease the percentage and the govt is working on the police side with some straight forward ways , like body cams,dashcams,tasers and better/more training. The part that is going to be hard to move the number is coming from the civilian side of the equation. How often to we see video footage of civilian vs police interaction where just not the perpetrator but the civilians around the incident site for lack of a better term not being helpful/cooperative with police. So no matter how much we move the number from the police side it will not be at its maximum effect unless the civilian part of the equation moves as well.

Another thing that a lot of people seem to forget is the factor that adrenaline plays in these situations. When it gets pumping through you lots of things change in your body. It also tends to trigger the flight or fly response. People ask ,why did the officer discharge his weapon 12 times? Well, his heart rate was way up his body was working at peak output and 9 out of 10 times he did not realize it. You read about stuff like this from combat vets.It is one of the reasons most states are making it a felony to run from the police, you are making shit dangerous for everyone involved.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I'm not ignoring the facts. I'm ignoring the racist conclusions it attempts to draw by misuing facts. That video was horrible all around.

Go ahead and summarize the big conclusions in that video and tell me what they are and then we can decide.

There are two solutions: have the police stop carrying guns and eliminate the police. (Credit to Jorr on the later.)

Shapiro's argument(s) was/were awful.

"If there is evidence of racism then its racism"
"if there's no evidence of racism then it can't be racism"
OK....no idea of the point he's trying to make there.

Then his whining about why wouldn't blacks riots when their mayor is black, police chief is black, etc was intentionally ignorant.

Peeps I agree, did you notice I said they where they are getting better/more training.
As to that blurb I can point to to a ton of stories where someone gets spooked and it sets off an entire units going full auto on noting but shadows. I am talking a Company(100+).

edit: another thing. The Military limits the amount of time a soldier spends in combat before he is rotated out for rest. There is also another point where the soldier is considered combat ineffective not to be returned to combat. We do not do this to police.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I saw it recently but forgot about it until I saw your post.

Just figured I'd share.

Exactly the "suspects" like you see here....I feel like everyone in this country should hear these words and watch this...

Ben Shapiro defeats Black Lives Matter argument:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5LeFo1EJU

I will concede that my views are different than most on here and that is ok. Think we all want innocent people to never have a gun pointed at them, let alone lose a life when it can be avoided. How we get there and the reasons we are not there now are just different in our eyes. I'm gonna try and shut up now.

Because the guy he is arguing is providing no examples of racism, so the arguer says "I'm human, of course there must be racism". WHAT?! You agree with THIS? Are you kidding me?

How is that ignorant when they are rioting against the white oppression, yet the leaders he is pointing out are all black? So its black on black racism?

So you post and run again.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

And unless there was some breaking news, wasn't the Charlotte dude reading a book? I view books as more nerdy than thuggish.

Cool story. Lawlesness. So then when an event like the NYC bombings goes down, your going to sign up to hunt that guy down? Don't you just take on role of the police then?

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Yes. I believe humans are inherently racist. We are hard-wired to sort, group, pattern.

The question was how to eliminate police shootings. Not some argument about an inept terrorist in New Jersey.

I hope you can understand that any improvements in policing techniques/transparency benefits all Americans.

They go hand in hand, what are you talking about? Who is going to stop the bad dudes in society....whether they are selling dope out of their car on the corner, raping women jogging thru the park, or committing mass terrorist acts in the name of ISIS

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

McDude,

Have you ever had to discharge your weapon while on duty?

I have a cousin who was an undercover guy who tells the story of a shoot out with a suspect from ten feet and they both emptied their weapons and never hit each other.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

:roll:

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

BLM is calling for the elimination of the police. Check out item 8 on their demands:

http://www.blacklivesmatterchicago.com/demands.html

their demands seem reasonable to me

their demands seem reasonable to me

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.