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581 people have been shot and killed by police so far in 2017
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<blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 3016274" data-attributes="member: 42"><p>Very valid question. As someone who grew up with, and still has, a conservative, pro-law enforcement mindset (and someone who went through the hiring process and almost became a state trooper), it's a hard one to wrestle with.</p><p></p><p>As you can see from responses already you often get one extreme of "we aren't hard enough on criminals" and "we need to shoot more of them" to the other hysterical "all cops are violent racist gunslingers".</p><p></p><p>The answer is somewhere in between. Who's smart enough to figure it out? Not me, but the numbers do seem to indicate that there is a valid question to be asked.</p><p></p><p>Is it our society? Are we more violent? Is respect for authority declining? Is it law enforcement training and hiring? Is it an increasing sense of us vs them? Is it all of it combined?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SMS, post: 3016274, member: 42"] Very valid question. As someone who grew up with, and still has, a conservative, pro-law enforcement mindset (and someone who went through the hiring process and almost became a state trooper), it's a hard one to wrestle with. As you can see from responses already you often get one extreme of "we aren't hard enough on criminals" and "we need to shoot more of them" to the other hysterical "all cops are violent racist gunslingers". The answer is somewhere in between. Who's smart enough to figure it out? Not me, but the numbers do seem to indicate that there is a valid question to be asked. Is it our society? Are we more violent? Is respect for authority declining? Is it law enforcement training and hiring? Is it an increasing sense of us vs them? Is it all of it combined? [/QUOTE]
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