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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I live in the heart of los angeles, I'm the last person to give the benefit of the doubt to the entire dept. and I also am pretty keen on things like this and in albequerque as I have a niece and nephew attending college there and family in other parts of NM
Nevertheless, to take an incident like this and extrapolate out from it as some have done here is backwards. Reading more about this, shows the situation in greater detail and honestly, I've yet to conclude those cops were trigger happy in this incident.
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There is always more in the details, but do you think cops in LA & Albuquerque just run into these things more than others? Yes LA is a big ass place so they are more likely to run into problems vs other places but other police departments do run into the same situations tend to be less likely to end with the result of a person being shot by the cops.
It's clearly a case of inadequate training and an environment that fosters a us vs them mentality where "they" are never held accountable for making a bad call.
You start bringing a few of these cops up on involuntarily manslaughter charges for shooting the wrong person and I bet suddenly they get a lot less trigger happy and actually try to resolve the situations with out deadly force.
Look at the difference in a cop shooting vs a civilian shooting.
If you as a legal gun carrying citizen shoot someone in self defense, it is considered a murder and you have to be proven not guilty. If you shoot someone, regardless if it was legit reason or not it is always considered a murder until you can prove you had reason to shoot the person.
If a cop shoots someone, he is put on desk duty until they decide if it was a legit shooting or not. 9 out of 10 times the cop gets off with no discipline. Meanwhile you are faced with countless court costs and potential jail time while awaiting trial.
If a cop shoots someone on duty, it should be looked at as failure to preform his duty of protecting peoples lives and he should have to prove he had reason to shoot that person to a third party oversight group and not "police internal affairs". Instead it's just a environment of, hey buddy you gotta ride the desk for a few weeks til we get yea back in the field, wink wink..pat on the back..