Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Gamgee
From : Andeddu
Date : Wed Aug 26 2020 16:33:23

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Gamgee to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Aug 25 2020 11:01 am

 > If you were a police officer, and the criminals were often
 > wearing/using combat gear, would you like to also have combat
 > gear?  Would you like to take on a crazed killer using semi/auto
 > weapons and body armor, whilst wearing a T-shirt and a baton?
 > Force must be met with equal/greater force, if you want to live.
 > I see your point, but when MANY of the criminals have superior
 > weapons/shielding than the police, what should they do?
 >
 > This is a good illustration of the problem with the
 > liberal/Democrat approach to solving police problems.  It's very
 > easy to say (and get the "base" all fired up by doing it) things
 > like "Defund the Police!", but such methods are sorely lacking in
 > reality.  It's a 'effin WAR out there, and the bad guys are
 > heavily armed, often with nothing to lose.  Again I ask, would
 > *YOU* want to be a police officer, and be told that you now have
 > to face these assholes with LESS equipment than you already have?
 > If that was me, I'd quit.  A lot of them have quit.  What if they
 > all quit?  What's the solution then?
 >
 > Most politicians (on both sides) need a big heavy dose of reality
 > dumped on their heads.  They have no idea how it is out there in
 > the actual real-life world.  Another thing that contributes to the
 > "police problems" is that we never see the GOOD outcomes that GOOD
 > cops produce.  That doesn't sell ads or make the news.  That
 > doesn't fit the agenda.  "They" don't want that kind of thing seen
 > by the masses.

Finally there's something we can agree on, Gamgee. I think the police have been
militarised, as you say, due to the threat level of organised gangs. These
people have access to military grade weapons/protective gear, so the police
have to be armed to that level too. Officer safety is important because very
few would do the job if they were ill equipped... the last thing we need is a
mass exodus during times of riots, protests and civil disobedience. And yes,
there are millions of instances of police contact every year and most end up
with good outcomes... which appears to be downplayed by the media.

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