XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.thebird.copwatch, nyc.general   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: central222@hotmail.com   
      
   Robert Lee wrote:   
   >   
   > "jaybird"  wrote in   
   > news:yAlGb.1503$sP4.872@fe1.texas.rr.com:   
   >   
   > > The candy bar, sock, cell phone, etc... would not be considered a   
   > > threat if that object can be determined.   
   >   
   > You know what's kind of funny, though? Most real people don't have nearly   
   > as many violent encounters as cops, compared one on one. That's obvious.   
   > However, taken as a group, normal citizens have shitloads of such   
   > encounters. Most of the time, these happen out of the blue, to people who   
   > have absolutely no training, it isn't their job to spot-assess threat   
   > levels or keep the peace or anything like that.   
   >   
   > ...and yet, normal people almost *never* kill somebody in their violent   
   > encounters because they mistake, in the heat of the moment, a candy bar   
   > or a sock or a cell phone for a lethal weapon. Cops, however, seem to do   
   > it fairly regularly.   
   >   
   > Go figure.   
      
      
   Cops are taught to threaten with deadly force whenever they are unsure   
   of any little thing.   
      
   The continuation of the policies known to kill the innocent is   
   negligence.   
      
      
   > --   
   > --Robert   
   >   
   > "'There are men in this world,' he said, "who go about demanding to be   
   > killed. You must have noticed them...these are people who wander through   
   > the world shouting 'Kill me. Kill me.' And there is always somebody   
   > ready to oblige them.'"   
   >   
   > --Mario Puzo, The Godfather   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)