The good cops don't make the news.
And, also, reality TV is produced and edited.
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Actually, there was a good NPR bit about Full Moon Madness and the Ride-Along Curse, which I could dig up.
But just like when someone is watching over your shoulders while you type and all of the sudden you type like a retard, having a different audience changes you.
I live next to a cop. Our gardens border. Over the summer, he had workers doing up his garden, and they caught a whiff of what I was smoking. So, what does the cop do? Does he come and knock on my door and warn me? No. He moans at the boss of my next door neighbour. What kind of arsehole does that? The poor woman next door was stressing about her job because of what I was smoking. It had nothing to do with next door, but he just wanted to be the big guy, right? Fucking twat.
That's a typcial cop here.
Is it?
I know cops and their douche-baggary, I think I had a post earlier in this thread about hearing my buddy cop talk about encounters as mine-fields of gotcha-bombs, but that's the job they have to work and that's the way they're told to work it.
Like I said before, cops kill people because of how the company trains them and tells them to deal with situations. It's the case for how they behave in near every spot.
I don't see why a cop should holster his gun and have a clean fight with a random criminal who may or not be a martial arts expert / bad ass mother fucker.
Torrent this docu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/
Maybe that's not the best example, I only vaguely remember the details of the movie. But there's a reason a cop will approach your window and stay somewhat behind the back-edge of the door. Cops have been dropped with no warning and the door-frame gives protection from a shooter.
Surely cop risk and criminal death reaches it's own natural equilibrium.
Plus when you shoot, you aim for the torso. Always. You ain't gonna pinpoint target his shoulder to avoid serious injury. Further away from the centre equals closer to missing and hitting something or someone else.
In facm this conversation is stupid. I don't think police shoot to kill in the first place. They shoot to stop. And minimise bystander risk when they do so.
How accurate do do you think a pistol is? Once you've answered that question, realise you're wrong.
Lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5qDRDPI2xQ
This is why they tell you to stay in the car, otherwise treat you like you'll kill them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FbLm99znU
Just that easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRGf__sTAg
And you're aware of every single one of these videos because you're job is the same as those being shot at.
And you live in a nation with strict drug laws and 3-strike rules where someone carrying a teenth of coke might be looking at a life sentence, and all of the sudden, you feel like... who knows? Like you need to be ready for violence.
Maybe, maybe not. There are a lot of problems and there's always the looming possibility that the many problems of the UK are simply canceling each other out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8
Wait.... what?
You guys have an amount of coke commonly called a tenth?
Well, the greater the perceived risk to the cop, given experience of said cop and general perceived experience of cops, of a given situation, the higher the chance of the criminal being shot.
Makes sense to me.
And likewise, the given perceived risk to a criminal of being shot, the less likely said criminal is to act in a way that leads to him being shot.
So risk of cop dying vs risk of criminal being shot adjusted for likely incarceration time and propensity to accept said time equals chance of being shot.
I am drunk, s o.may have fucked that up, but why wouldn't there be a natural rate of criminal death by cop for a given set of risks and rewards for each party?
Of course it is.
Amd if I'm right, and I've no reason whatsoever to believe I am, sorely the.more interesting conversation is what level is acceptable and how far you are willing to go to reduce it.
I wanted to agree with your eqilibrium thing because I liked your language.
But I just couldn't figure out what you meant.
What level of what?
This is my difficulty with a lot of stuff that starts to assume economist terminology. No one is measuring nothing and nobody can check anything. Everything is fungible. You can find a metric to suit whatever reality you want if you're willing to look hard enough.
I was thinking "yeah if the cops shoot all the criminals then eventually the cops are killing no criminals and the criminals are killing no cops because there's no fucking criminals left, they're all shot".
But I didn't think that's what you meant.
And sorry Ong, for lining you up like that. But I think I'm stupid too, if it helps.
Yeah I'm being wild and loose with my language.
You'd prob have a different level of death by cop for each different scenario.
But let's say holding less than one once of cocaine when pulled over for speeding.
For that scenario, given the risks and rewards for both parties, their must exist a rate of criminal death by cop. And this rate could be changed for future interactions by changing the perceived risks and rewards of both parties.
And back to the equilibrium, it's the natural rate for the.perceived risks.
I know the intention is to mock spoon, but actually it accidentally compliments him. I mean if I feel so great about beating him at chess, I must think he's a smart guy.
F (the rest of yall)I:
Fungible:
(of goods contracted for without an individual specimen being specified) replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
I'm normally good with spelling, but I had to check which was right out of compliment and complement. I ninja'd that last post twice.
Yeah, well, I'm on the one side of that coin.
Bit relating that to the topic at hand, n obody has an answer. There aren't enough data points to build a reliable model because culture moves at one pace which accelerates at a whim, and law moves at another pace which is certainly slower. So that's where the fun is. Decision.makers. playing with lives with each guesstimate.
I agree. I've said it before. If you want to talk about truths that you can't put words to, I'm all about 'em. Some times you know the answer then have to work to get others to follow along. But you can never trust anyone else to be doing it, because it's too easy to fake.
PS torrent this docu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
I know he definitely touches on this.
This. He definitely touches on this.
Drunk sleep awaits. I've enjoyed this. I miss arguing here.
Post name.of.doc,link won't work.
rilla hasn't seen my huge dick, so it's not that.
I'm nearly 37, and I still impress myself when I fart.
Sign of a good diet, though, right?