If people get so upset when police officers respond within the scope of their training, then what do we expect the police officers to do? Why should we even have law enforcement? Or laws for that matter? If a cop observes a person misbehaving, should the cop just shrug it off? Should he intervene? Should a cop be allowed to use previous experiences and observations to deduce if something illicit is afoot? Is it profiling to include a persons race (skin color) in the description of a look-out? Should constitutional law be a standard topic in middle and high school education? Decisions from cases in the Supreme Court are what dictate and outline the scope of an officers lawful actions. Having to make life-or-death decisions in the matter of seconds, at any moment of the day, is not something anyone should make light of. There is nothing wrong with feeling angry about a life cut short, but what about the lasting effects on the person that took that life? Imagine going though six months of schooling, plus a year of on-the-job training, and many more years of continued experience in the field, you are then chastised, publicly judged by those who are not trained, for responding within the scope of your training, to a given situation. A situation that will be constantly analyzed in hind-sight. You starting questioning yourself, your training, those who trained you; you feel the doubts from your peers, and the hatred from those who already dont trust the system. You must bear the stigma of being a racist, not to mention the guilt harbored for taking someones life. And now people are upset to the point of violence because you acted and reacted as you were trained to? How devastating.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:38:53 +0000
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