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>>itcrow+(OP)
The only remarkable fact about this leak is that us plebes get to see the other side of the one-way mirror.

>>rmrfst+d2
You get to see how the sausage is made in a developed country which is, by far, an outlier in its crime-rate. I'm all for increasing police de-escalation training and policing standards in-general, I just don't think it will solve the problems that the protestors want to be solved when the crime rate is as high as it is. Ultimately, the cops are going to get jaded and stressed in ways that cops in other nations would not, and they will always prioritize their life and well-being over that of the perpetrator.

I was travelling a few years ago, and hanging out in the hotel bar in Portland, Maine, and I listened in on a heated conversation between some guy and a lady whose husband is a cop. They were discussing police brutality and the protests at the time (Baltimore maybe?), and the lady's point was basically "do whatever you want with regulating police behaviour, but I will take my husband coming home at the end of the night over anything else"

It's possible with the falling rates of crime, this may just solve itself (though increasing police training and standards is a good thing regardless).

>>macspo+G6
Except that we are protesting not because police is trying to defend themselves, but because they are killing people who are posing no threat, and using self-defense as a convenient excuse to kill.

>>colive+PB
No one rioted when Mohammed Noor shot Justine Damond.

>>goatin+DE
I don't know what riot means to you, but:

1. There wasn't an 8:46 video showing Noor murder her (no video publicly released until trial?).

2. The PM of Australia immediately denounced it and called for action.

3. BLM protested the shooting and failure to immediately charge Noor in the streets of Minneapolis.

4. The police chief resigned almost immediately.