kreskin comments on Oklahoma school principal takes down gunman

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

The police wont endanger themselves to save others. They argue in court that they are only there to do paperwork, and that "protect and serve" was just marketing, and was never a promise to do either. Useless bullies. They use their monopoly on the use of force to protect themselves, and thats it.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

won’t

I saw one story that alleged a police officer endangered himself to save others. The kind of thing police might want to quantify.

Hmm…

Anyone know if they have tried to quantify how often they put themselves in harm's way? Some starting point for analysis (removing incidents that don’t meet strict criteria), eventually get to a number: “police endanger themselves less than x% of the time”

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[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Its also liability. Doing nothing has been successfully argued in court over and over. If they do things and bad things happen because of it, they can be held liable. I think there are some cops who would definitely jump in there, but i agree that most wouldnt put themselves in that situation.

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