73 year-old woman fatally shot by officer while role-playing police scenario

[Poliwhirl]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/10/woman-fatally-shot-in-accident-during-fla-citizen-police-academy-lethal-force-simulation/

basically, the police officers were demonstrating a lethal force scenario in front of a decent sized group for a public 2-hour 'citizen police academy.'
little did the participants know, they would be witnessing an actual lethal force scenario, because the officer shot this poor old woman in front of everybody.

i think it would be an understatement to say that letting a man who forgot to unload his weapon and put on the safety before pointing his gun at an old woman and pulling the trigger in front of a group of people should not have been instructing any human being on how to become a police officer, let alone be one himself. but, i suppose that's just about the average competence you can expect from an american police officer, unfortunately.

and, of course, this event took place in florida

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[The Murderous Cop]

and, of course, this event took place in florida

why does it seem this always happens in florida

[Frequency]

i suppose that's just about the average competence you can expect from an american police officer, unfortunately.

This isn't a fair statement. If this were true, a majority of American police officers would be making the same mistakes, and that just doesn't happen.

why does it seem this always happens in florida

Florida Man must strike back.

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why does it seem this always happens in florida

Because florida's news records are open to the public

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The OP is written terribly
fix it

[Poliwhirl]

This isn't a fair statement. If this were true, a majority of American police officers would be making the same mistakes, and that just doesn't happen.

well the fact that more and more people are being shot to death in situations where it isn't warranted should certainly say SOMETHING about how poorly america trains their police officers. maybe it's intentional though, if police weren't taught to escalate scenarios and utilize inaccurate drug tests, their wouldnt be nearly enough arrests to fuel the prison industry

The OP is written terribly
fix it

suggestions would be far more effective than calling it terrible and saying it needs to be fixed.

[Frequency]

well the fact that more and more people are being shot to death in situations where it isn't warranted should certainly say SOMETHING about how poorly america trains their police officers. maybe it's intentional though, if police weren't taught to escalate scenarios and utilize inaccurate drug tests, their wouldnt be nearly enough arrests to fuel the prison industry

Police training is embarrassingly brief, yes, but "more and more people" are not being shot to death. What you're seeing is an increase in media coverage that is deliberately slanted to villainize police officers.

That said, if police training were more extensive, you would notice a decrease in these events.

Or maybe you wouldn't, because the pulsating mass of a puppet that is the news network at large has to keep fueling the fire somehow.

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well the fact that more and more people are being shot to death in situations where it isn't warranted should certainly say SOMETHING about how poorly america trains their police officers. maybe it's intentional though, if police weren't taught to escalate scenarios and utilize inaccurate drug tests, their wouldnt be nearly enough arrests to fuel the prison industry

Obviously what happened was a tragic accident that stems from a lapse of firearm judgement, not police training, but I'll take the bait anyway.

They don't get paid richard. You want to start turning cops into mastermind superheros that never make mistakes it's going to cost you in tax, and probably result in a lengthy discussion about the militarization of police. You don't seem to be on that side of the fence in the first place.

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Smells like tumblr in here go back where you came from

[bestguy22]

this is why roleplay is bad

[Poliwhirl]

Police training is embarrassingly brief, yes, but "more and more people" are not being shot to death. What you're seeing is an increase in media coverage that is deliberately slanted to villainize police officers.

That said, if police training were more extensive, you would notice a decrease in these events.

Or maybe you wouldn't, because the pulsating mass of a puppet that is the news network at large has to keep fueling the fire somehow.

you're right, they've just always been pretty incompetent

Obviously what happened was a tragic accident that stems from a lapse of firearm judgement, not police training, but I'll take the bait anyway.

They don't get paid richard. You want to start turning cops into mastermind superheros that never make mistakes it's going to cost you in tax, and probably result in a lengthy discussion about the militarization of police. You don't seem to be on that side of the fence in the first place.

you wouldn't need to do any of that, police just need much, much better training. it doesnt require better equipment or better pay. teachers get paid jack richard and they do 4x the 'training' police officers do (if college education can be considered training). and yes, training would include firearm judgement, which this officer clearly lacked.

Smells like tumblr in here go back where you came from

please refrain from commenting if you have nothing of value to say

[RedGajin]

Obviously what happened was a tragic accident that stems from a lapse of firearm judgement, not police training, but I'll take the bait anyway.

"firearm judgement" is police training

the standards to which police officers are held are embarrassingly low

[Rally]

"firearm judgement" is police training

"firearm judgement" is gun safety training which is massively accessible to the general public, lol. Gun safety training is the same civilian-accessible bullstuff no matter if you get it at police academy or the gun range across the street. Police training involves physical training, tactics, law, lethal force, ect. There is very little you can add to modern gun safety courses. Accidents happen. You could teach every cop in the universe how to quick-scope and accidents will still happen, they'll just cost you more in tax dollars.

teachers get paid jack richard and they do 4x the 'training' police officers do (if college education can be considered training). and yes, training would include firearm judgement, which this officer clearly lacked.

This isn't even a fair brown townogy. Primary school teachers get paid more to handle kids than patrol officers do to handle dangerous criminals.

[Brickmaster]

where's that gif of Florida being sawn off from the rest of the US mainland

[Frequency]

you're right, they've just always been pretty incompetent

They've always been pretty incompetent? Your view of police officers is based on societal conditioning that's been going on for the past forty years or so, with an increasing pace. Your original point was that the average police officer is incompetent, but the average officer is entirely competent. You would simply see the number of "incompetent" officers dissolve if they received more training as they do in other countries.