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While everything you said is logical and unassailable on a moral plane, we must bear in mind that to this point, police haven't been trained to not shoot unarmed innocents.
I don't hold out much hope for them advocating or even agreeing with any program that requires responsibility from them. From their viewpoint the present system where there are no penalties for shooting and killing the unarmed non-criminal citizen is far superior to a system where they become responsible for making life altering decisions under more difficult circumstances. And were such a system of education, training, and responsibility put in place, what happens to their de facto immunity from legal repercussions when they kill an innocent?
No, I just don't see the law enforcement community, in general, being accepting of such a plan. Perhaps a few who have not yet succumbed to the ubercitizen mentality of most LE agencies, but in general, I think we will see nothing but determined and vicious resistance to any such plan by law enforcement.
If this is to come to pass, it will be forced on them. They will never willingly accept it.
May 25, 2008, 7:46:00 PM
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