Tenacity...
Your concept of how police should handle a potentially armed suspect is what gets cops killed. Yes, I do work in the inner city.
That's a video of an incident that occurred well before Freddie Gray, in an area I work in. The officers were trying to be nice, polite, and be the perfect officers you describe. How well did that turn out?
What happened leading up to the start of the video? The cops seem to be trying to detain a man that's out of control, then another random citizen runs up and attacks the cops who I guess he felt were over-policing the man in some way? Or maybe the random citizen wasn't "random" but some how related to the man on the ground?
This video does not give any cop license to start over-detaining and over-policing. The job is dangerous and stressful, it's a part of the description.
I appreciate the vast majority of police, you guys keep ME safe and a cop saved my life before. You probably won't find a bigger black man supporter of police in this country than me.
Just like I love my "people" in terms of the black community, I also love the majority of cops. It's why I'm so PASSIONATE when I speak about the dumb shyt on both sides. Black people just call me a coon and certain far-right people just call me another one of those "n-words".....but there are issues on BOTH SIDES. This is not a one-sided issue.
Also, as far your whole "have some respect for me." That's all well and good, and I do show respect. But when I do not know if you are the suspect or not and whether you have a gun that you may or may not want to kill me with, you better believe that until I know otherwise, you WILL be getting stopped in the manner I said.
That's bad policing. For example, Jeronimo Yanez (the officer who pulled over Castile) said he pulled the man over because his nose was big, and it somehow "fit the description" of some other big nosed black man who did a robbery.
Do you know how many big nosed black men there are out there??
Alton Sterling is a messy one, that guy is a CRIMINAL. Plain and simple. I have no damn clue what happened in that situation, but he clearly wasn't a stand-up human being.
Philando Castile on the other hand, was minding his own damn business. He wasn't a criminal, he wasn't doing shyt wrong, he was literally a victim of BAD POLICE tactics, the same police tactics (I'm sorry to say) that you are PROMOTING right now on this forum Virtual.
Now, the example I gave had a pretty detailed description as far as what is usually put out. Now, if I had just said "tall, skinny male," then yeah, that fits a lot of people. But once you narrow it down with clothes...
Well, Castile was pulled over and shot less than 2 minutes from the time Officer Yanez did the radio call, based on nothing but having a big a.ss nose. That's completely fast as hell, which means that Officer rushed to judgment. It's bad policing....bad...bad...bad!
Like I said, policing isn't sunshine and flowers. There is "nice" was to arrest someone who is resisting. There is no "nice" way to deal with a potentially armed person.
Virtual I have a right to bear arms sir. I understand if my nose is big and I look like I robbed the bank up the street, but until you come up to me, investigate, ask questions, and have some sort of lee-way that I am the robber of said bank.....you have NO BUSINESS over-policing me, over-detaining me, telling me to hit the fvcking ground, and immediately SHOOTING because I have a gun on me when I have a LEGAL RIGHT to carry a damn gun.
Do you see my point here?
Please enlighten me on your "better" tatics.
- ASSUME I'm innocent until you have more reasonable cause to think I'm not.
- Have respect for me and speak to me with some respect, not like I'm your child
- Try to de-escalate rather than take it somewhere it doesn't need to go
- Leave your ego at the door and know that you are here to SERVE, not DICTATE
- If you are afraid of the people and community you are policing, find another job
- Use your taser, club, your partner, a wrestling hold, and anything else you can to detain a person that's being unreasonable, OTHER THAN shooting them if the situation does not cause for the person DYING
- If you are racist or hate black people, find another job
- Have a partner or multiple partners with you at all times to help with detaining
The best "tactics" that can help reduce violent crime and help reduce the amount of violent criminals (the same ones that fight with police) would be:
- petition the courts to ENFORCE VIOLENT FELONIES and the jail time for them
They are already doing this?
- have neighborhoods help clean up their area. "I ain't see nothing" isn't going to get that guy that just shot your homeboy off the streets before he comes for you...
100% agree. There's a stupid a.ss no snitching policy in the black community, which like I said is completely out of control in these inner cities with worship of thug culture and other bullshyt. Ray Ray will shoot Pookie, everybody will see it, and attend Pookie's funeral (Ray Ray will even attend and sit in the front row), but nobody will "snitch" to the police on what happened. It's sick...sick...sick.
Like I've said before, I don't see why anybody would want to police these areas. The people are animals and completely out of control. It's very tough to detain and police these people, but you have GOT to do it without shooting them dead unless the situation absolutely calls for it.