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Originally Posted by kane
Here's the only problem with that...or at least the major one that I can think of. This is a job where you may be called upon to shoot someone. They give you the gun and train you how and when to use it. You may, on any given day you are on the job, be called upon to do just that. Any good lawyer will tell you that juries are unpredictable. You are putting your fate in the hands of people who likely have never been in your shoes. All you need is a few cop haters on that jury and you can get screwed even if you didn't do anything wrong.
If that is the risk of the job you would have a difficult time finding quality people to do it.
I have no problem at all with setting up tasks forces and training non-police people to investigate shootings to help determine if something potentially illegal went down, but if the reality is that you shoot someone, you end up on trial and may go to jail for life, many cops would quit and do something else and many would-be quality cops would never join and would just go into another line of work.
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Perhaps if they all faced real jail time they wouldn't use lethal force so quickly OR they would carry non-lethal weapons with them at all times and use them first. What happened to rubber bullets, tasers, mace, and any other weapons that have been created that are non-lethal? They are planning a mission to MARS but no one has invested a better weapon for police to use?
As it stands, it's too easy for police to kill people and get away with it. The he said / she said nonsense all comes down to who is better represented in court. Most of this can be fixed by making them all wear cameras with audio. Then it will always be clear what happened. It will sort out the hot heads from the legit police officers real quick. I don't think that is too much to ask from someone who has the legal authority to take a life. We have the technology for this to happen right now, so there is really no excuse why they all are not wearing a cam right now.