This is not an anti-cop post. However, the problem is still very real no matter what color you paint it- officer-involved shootings are still very real and increasing at an alarming rate.
This is an article by the Washington Post that touches this issue.
"Distraught people, deadly results" -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/06/30/distraught-people-deadly-results/
Another good source is http://www.killedbypolice.net/
As we have seen, just because the media says the perp had a gun does not make it true. Look at Dillon Taylor. He was walking away. He lifted his shirt to show he had no weapons. Now he is dead.
Or the guy (can't find his case) that was shot & killed by a cop, yet he was running away from the cop. Not only had he not committed a crime, but the cop placed a gun on him. That would have been open & shut, but a passer by got it on his smart phone.
The problem we face is clear- when police-involved shootings kill more Americans inside American borders than even ALL of the known terrorist groups in the same time-frame, world-wide, there is a problem.
I realize I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
We have to find a solution to this. Would that be increased gun-control? Would that be decreased gun-control? Increased training? What laws should be created or stricken in order to solve this dilemma?
This is an article by the Washington Post that touches this issue.
"Distraught people, deadly results" -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/06/30/distraught-people-deadly-results/
Another good source is http://www.killedbypolice.net/
As we have seen, just because the media says the perp had a gun does not make it true. Look at Dillon Taylor. He was walking away. He lifted his shirt to show he had no weapons. Now he is dead.
Or the guy (can't find his case) that was shot & killed by a cop, yet he was running away from the cop. Not only had he not committed a crime, but the cop placed a gun on him. That would have been open & shut, but a passer by got it on his smart phone.
The problem we face is clear- when police-involved shootings kill more Americans inside American borders than even ALL of the known terrorist groups in the same time-frame, world-wide, there is a problem.
I realize I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
We have to find a solution to this. Would that be increased gun-control? Would that be decreased gun-control? Increased training? What laws should be created or stricken in order to solve this dilemma?
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