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Focusing on the gear seems like a cheap and easy solution compared to fixing training and accountability, the actual root of the issue.

>>jmastr+(OP)
No when life gives you lemons, there is no need for whataboutism. Let’s keep pressuring and working to get to training and accountability too.

>>jmastr+(OP)
When has legislation ever solved the underlying problem (uncontrolled violence in this case)?

Legislation almost always winds up being the softball nearby target that does something visible, not necessarily something useful.

>>jmastr+(OP)
I completely agree, though I assume it's because the federal government only pulls federal levers without new legislation. I bet they have more federal programs for military gear redistribution than they do to subsidize training.

>>jmastr+(OP)
There is evidence that demilitarizing the police works (along with other things) and that some training doesn't.[0] I'm all for accountability, which the link also says helps.

[0]https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180655701271732224.html

>>inerte+n1
This comment breaks the site guidelines against calling names in arguments ("whataboutism"). Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

>>jmastr+(OP)
Gear and training dovetail. Like at many companies, LEO training has been "game-ified", and much of it consists of playing with toys procured at taxpayer expense.

Have fun with this one, folks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1RaPqoCfMc

>>dang+dd
Didn’t know, sorry about that.

>>inerte+No
Appreciated!

>>dang+dd
Is that actually name-calling? It's a description of a comment (or a argument), not of a person.

I mean, if it is, then so would calling out someone's comment as an ad-hominem, right.