Topic: ISIS is nothing compared to U.S. cops. - page 22. (Read 16631 times)

I've spent many months in the US. There are no supercars there. Everyone drives pickups or boring old beaters. In about 20,000 miles of driving the most interesting vehicles I saw were 5 Corvettes.

Another thing I did was to do everything possible to avoid the cops. American 'justice' is not something I'd ever, ever want to get swallowed up by. They're effectively militarised. That's not what a police force should ever be.

Where are you from, do you hate USA very much? USA is my dream country, because villas and super cars are super cheaper there.

they've released a photo of his gun at the scene in case you didnt know

Where are you from, do you hate USA very much? USA is my dream country, because villas and super cars are super cheaper there.

The video, taken by Scott's wife, Rakeyia, and published by NBC News and The New York Times, does not display the shooting itself. But she can be heard pleading with officers not to shoot her husband and repeatedly saying, "He has no weapon."

A Marine veteran says he was fired from the Weirton, West Virginia Police Department because he did not shoot an armed black man who was looking for "suicide by cop." Two other officers arrived and killed the man, whose gun was not loaded.

Stephen Mader, 25, answered a call on May 6 from a distraught woman who said her boyfriend was trying to commit suicide. He tried to de-escalate the situation using his Marine Corps and police academy training, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Weirton is a city of about 20,000 in the West Virginia panhandle, 36 miles west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"I saw then he had a gun, but it was not pointed at me," Mader said, describing a silver handgun that Ronald Williams of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania held in his right hand, pointed at the ground. Williams, 23 and known as "RJ," told the officer to "just shoot me."

"And I told him, 'I'm not going to shoot you brother'," Mader told the Post-Gazette. "I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and de-escalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop."

At that point, two other officers arrived. Williams walked towards them, waving the gun, and they shot him. Police later established that the gun had not been loaded. Mader and the two other officers are white; Williams was black.

When Mader tried to return to work on May 17, he was told to report to Police Chief Rob Alexander.

"We're putting you on administrative leave and we're going to do an investigation to see if you are going to be an officer here. You put two other officers in danger," Mader recalled the chief saying. On June 7, he was given a termination notice that said he "failed to eliminate a threat" by not shooting Williams.

The following day, Hancock County Prosecutor Jim Davis announced the shooting had been justified, and Chief Alexander told reporters that "all three officers" were back at work and doing well.

A few years ago, I wrote about the raid on Geraldine and Caroline Burley for the Huffington Post:

When Caroline Burley, now 51, first heard the boom around 5:30 on the evening of June 13, [2007] it sounded like it had come from outside her bedroom window. She rushed to investigate, and as she came out of the room, a man with a gun confronted her, threw her into a wall and then hurled her to the floor. A SWAT team had burst through her front door. Wearing only her nightgown, she asked for mercy. She recently had back surgery, she explained. Instead, one officer, then another kept her close to the floor by putting a boot in her back, according to court filings.

Caroline's mother, Geraldine Burley, was sitting at her computer in the basement when she heard a loud thud overhead, followed by a scream from her daughter and a man's voice ordering Caroline Burley to the floor.

I feel sorry for that black guy who was shot by the US police officer.    I beg to disagree with the comparison of ISIS and the US cops as I think ISIS were really terrible and incomparable.  This cop was really wrong if the allegation is correct that he just shot this guy when he told him that he have a license of carrying firearm and just trying to grab the license. Maybe that cop was drinking too much coffee or just being too paranood that he thought that he may just want to shoot him.  Anyways, justice should prevail.

In two Loop office buildings about eight blocks apart, a pair of University of Chicago research teams are analyzing big data to answer a thorny question that has become especially charged in recent months: Will a police officer have an adverse interaction with a citizen?

The team from the university's Crime Lab is in the first stages of working with the Chicago Police Department to build a predictive data program to improve the department's Early Intervention System, which is designed to determine if an officer is likely to engage in aggressive, improper conduct with a civilian.

The other team, part of U. of C.'s Center for Data Science & Public Policy, is expected to launch a data-driven pilot of an Early Intervention System with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina by the end of the summer. The center is working on similar efforts with the Los Angeles County sheriff's office and the Nashville and Knoxville police departments in Tennessee.

^^^^ It is wrong to compare Norway with the United States. Norway is a peaceful country with a population of less than 5 million individuals (out of which 95% are ethnic Norwegian). On the other hand, the American population amounts to some 320 million, including some 40 million blacks and 50 million Hispanics. Mexican drug cartels are not active in Norway, unlike the case with the US.

Do you have any idea how many cops are killed by the criminals every year in the US?

Credit: The Free Thought Project

It's been argued that the reason Norway police are so much more effective at their jobs than cops in the U.S. is because the undergo three years of training and learn to de-escalate situations, whereas cops in America receive only a fraction of the education and tend to react out of fear rather than respond rationally.

The statistics back up this argument. Every day, U.S. police kill more people than Norwegian cops have in the past ten years. Perhaps if law enforcement officials were educated differently, a deaf man named Daniel Kevin Harris might still be alive today.

According to WCNC, Harris was shot dead by a State Trooper in North Carolina this week. Reportedly, the State Trooper had attempted to pull over Harris' vehicle but for an unknown reason, the deceased did not stop. He instead drove to his home.

When both vehicles pulled up to Harris' home, they were both damaged. A neighbor, Mark Barringer, told the press:

"I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad. About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot."

That gunshot was fatal. Barringer says he went to take a closer look after hearing the noise and found Harris in the middle of the street, just feet away from his front door.

Barringer commented:

"It was surreal, you just don't expect to see something like that. When the gunshot went off, it was scary."

Since the tragic event, neighbors have put flowers near where Harris took his final breaths.

While the Detectives say the State Trooper and Harris got into "an encounter" before he fired his weapon, neighbors relay that the deaf man was shot immediately upon exiting the vehicle. They believe he was trying to communicate via sign language before he was killed.

Barringer agrees that if police were taught to de-escalate situations rather than react on gut impulses, Harris – and likely Alton Sterling and Philando Castile – would still be alive. He says:

"They should've deescalated and been trained to realize that this is an entirely different situation, you're pulling someone over who is deaf, they are handicapped. To me, what happened is totally unacceptable."