tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post8980426164529980617..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: The Violence Has Got to StopGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-57085091835949565672015-12-30T22:52:02.316-08:002015-12-30T22:52:02.316-08:00“a national climate where violence has become an a...“a national climate where violence has become an acceptable way to get what you want”<br /><br />Any given case has its specifics but it does seem to be as you describe it.<br /><br />It certainly looks like… every man is for himself, violence as reaction/solution is ennobled, whether your death means anything depends on where you are in the unwritten social hierarchy, police as occupying force.<br /><br />The United States occupies a zone of endemic violence not shared by other stable and developed democracies of a size to be statistically meaningful. Example: <br /><br />England and Wales have a combined population of about 56 million and in 5 years 2008 to 2012 there were just 9 fatal police shootings.<br /><br />In the 1980s and early 1990s state police in my part of Australia came under criticism for the number of shootings by police officers that had occurred. A review into it occurred and the number was halved over the next decade – recruitment, training, procedure. It has come down to about one per year on a state population of 5.7 million. Australia wide 105 people have been fatally shot by police in 22 years on a population now up to 23 million, or less than 5 per year. This is against 400+ per year on 319 million in the US.<br /><br />I have put a graph on my blog as illustration. In England/Wales or Germany the odds are lower still than in Australia - we actually regard our ‘high’ police shooting numbers as mildly scandalous.<br /><br />These things CAN be fixed. It’s not just ‘how it is’ or some law of nature that police need to shoot this many people. Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423673258718941141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-75676962948836495262015-12-30T22:38:40.892-08:002015-12-30T22:38:40.892-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423673258718941141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-53864064165188978802015-12-30T17:03:41.730-08:002015-12-30T17:03:41.730-08:00Anonymous, it goes beyond training, to the deliber...Anonymous, it goes beyond training, to the deliberate recruitment of violent people to be police officers, a national climate where violence has become an ecceptable way to get whaf you want, the mainstreaming of racism, and the very legitimate belief on the part of police that they can do anything without consequences. In other words, thanks to the Republican party and their God-forsaken base, racism and hatred have been let out of their cages to roam free, and no one seems to care enough to do a thing about it.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-71271496735930634682015-12-30T15:34:40.577-08:002015-12-30T15:34:40.577-08:00Merry Christmas, we killed 27 people with guns on ...Merry Christmas, we <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/28/guns-killed-more-people-on-christmas-in-the-u-s-than-in-an-entire-year-in-these-countries/?can_id=&source=email-27-christmas-funerals-2&email_referrer=27-christmas-funerals-2&email_subject=27-christmas-funerals&link_id=2" rel="nofollow">killed 27 people with guns on Christmas Day. </a>Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-28627138541617189132015-12-30T12:11:52.646-08:002015-12-30T12:11:52.646-08:00This comes down to cops training and personal atti...This comes down to cops training and personal attitude.<br />What ever happened to the idea of excessive force? Shooting someone 16 times goes way beyond neutralizing the danger. Deadly force is supposed to be the last alternative. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com