Originally Posted by Manxman
Life aint fox news, there is no answer, nothing is black and white.77% of shootings by police in the US involved mental illness or drugs (incl alcohol). You might be onto something there. P is making monsters out of common scum.
Its easy to want to start looking at increasing firepower, imprisoning crims for longer, or bring back public hangings (all of which sound great to me on the face of it). But this often creates much bigger problems further down the line.
The whole "lets kick ass" "lets kick there ass" thing is great emotive talk and makes people feel better when faced with ugly situations but strategically is seldom workable (look at the US post 911). If it was that easy and worked, we'd all do it. This attitude I sometimes refer to as being redneck because it shows lack of appreciation of the complexity of the problem.
Im not the biggest fan of stats, but here are a few from various studies in the US that make armed officers seem a little less attractive.
90% of shootings by police happen within a range of 6 feet and take less than 3 seconds.
25% of police shootings involve an unarmed suspect. Average rounds to contact target in daylight 64% and 45% at night. When more than two officers are shooting the accuracy of rounds drops to 9% and with more than 2 shooters they each shoot twice as many rounds as they would have by themselves.
71% of officers shot were within 10 feet of shooter.
http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/OIS.pdf
Oh the mindless animal is the armed forces, at least thats what we refered to it from the inside when I was involved with the army.
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