@pariston_hill:
So you mean the only training you get at a police academy is how to escalate conflict and violent situations into inevitable deaths? There's no teaser guns? The no negotiating a peaceful resolution? You know a gun is far more deadly and dangerous than a knife an almost all situations. "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight" is not a popular saying for nothing. And shooting a suspect in a non vital area can give the opportunity for a second cop to disarm or imobilize said subject. I expect that a person that was trained to enforce law and order don't be trigger happy and use a gun to solve anything from a robbery to getting a cat out of a tree.
Police are taught how to shoot to neutralize, not how to shoot to kill. The most effective way to neutralize a threat, is to fire at center mass.
Deadly force is allowed to be met with deadly force. If the girl was not using deadly force, the officer would not have used his firearm, he may have tazed her or moved in to physically restrain her. The officer arrived on the scene however, and within seconds recognized that the girl was employing deadly force, so he responded with deadly force as well. That's well within the law.
Negotiate a "peaceful resolution" with someone mid knife swing? How? Are you listening to yourself right now?
Where is a "non-vital area"? You can kill someone if you shoot them in their leg too, you know? It's called the femoral artery. So again, where is the cop supposed to shoot the person? Their head??? Their arms that are flailing around all over the place??? Their small, quick moving legs that they can easily miss?? Where would YOU shoot the girl pariston? How would YOU neutralize the threat to that girl in a split second when shit is hitting the fan and you don't have time to think clearly or aim at small, fast moving targets because someone is about to get stabbed to death with a knife?
He was trained to shoot center mass in the face of deadly force. Which is what he did. That's not being trigger happy, that's being a good cop. I'm sure the victim is happy a knife didn't end up in her neck or chest.
@pariston_hill:
REAL.FUCKING.USEFULL.
The white, black, latino and asian population in America is the same so those absolute number show that the cops shoot more white people.
There were 1733 white people shot, out a population of 234,370,202 (2017 est.) that gives 7,39exp-06 of the population.
No for a black person the chance is 2,33exp-05 , 1,19exp-05 % for a latino.
Per million it would give us:
7,39 whites/million
23,34 blacks/million
11,92 latinos/ million.
3,16 times more black people are lethally shot than white people in adjusted number.
Or as the own site you used puts:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/
If you want to defend that the police should use lethal force every time they have to make a split second decision it means your not training a law enforcer your training a shooter. I means that the police training is lacking methods to solve problems that don't require brute force or using fancy militar grade equipment.
If you want to argue that more white people are shot, at least do it in a way that statistically relevant and not the bullshit of gross numbers.
If you thing the police system, not only in US but all over the world, don't need to be fixed to root out systemic racism, trigger happy violent sociopaths among the ranks, to make it less an institution of protection of the elites interests, into a more useful tool of governance and protection of the population, pal you're part of the problem. You see a rotting tree on the edge to fall in a house and thing it's easier to fix the damage to the house than remove the rotting tree.
That wasn't my argument. I'm not saying white people are killed more per capita. Please read more carefully. Green said that "white people are taken alive most of the time" and those statistics show that that simply isn't true. White people are killed plenty. You don't just get to say "they are taken alive more than not" and completely ignore the contexts in which they were apprehended without being shot or the hundreds of cases where they were shot dead.
Police solve plenty of problems without the use of lethal force. Those cases just don't receive airtime because it's business as usual and not anything noteworthy. When is a police officer supposed to use deadly force then if literally attacking and trying to kill someone isn't enough for you? Does her throat need to be slashed? Does the knife need to be sticking out of her chest? How many times does she need to be stabbed before it's okay for him to neutralize the threat? Get a grip on reality, man. This isn't Hollywood.
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