Payout was $20M. Not $120M.
I stand corrected, I thought the video said ONE-twenty.
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That’s fine and all but part of the issue is some of them using max force on nonviolent people. Or not being able to perceive the difference between when to use max force and when not to. I give officers a lot of leeway but some of them take it too far when not necessary. a lot of the cases making the news about injuries at the hands of cops do not involve violent suspects. If the suspect were violent it wouldn’t be news. It would just be cops taking care of violent suspect.
I’m going to use the loo before watching this movie too…as I suspect it will be uninterrupted, action packed for 3+ hours.
Cops, in the grand scheme of things, do not get paraded all over the news when they screw up. It is very VERY rare for a cop to be charged with homicide stemming from use of force. Only a 104 charged between 2005 and 2019 (https://tinyurl.com/4278ysdh). That's <8 per year on average. The number of cops murdered is also fairly low. Their on-the-job fatality rate is not even top 25, and that is counting all causes (What are America’s most dangerous jobs? Search our database of deadliest occupations). Sure, it's tough and dangerous job, but you're overselling it.
I think the pendulum has swung a bit too far in some places, resulting in police quitting in large numbers. Every profession should have some system of accountability - I think getting rid of the firewall of police unions would do the trick.
I don't think the pendulum has swung too far at all. Most of it is that many (most?) cops seem to want to be able to do whatever they want to do without scrutiny or consequences. Many want to be able to get away with the stuff that they got away with decades ago (particularly before handheld recording devices). Most cops will only receive slaps on the wrist for things that would put any of us in jail. When there's a suit, they have no skin in the game; its the city that eats it. Even if fired, a majority later get their jobs back (Fired cops routinely rehired, from D.C. to California). Consequences meted out are typically just window dressing to appease the public.
I mean, you can always look at the Bureau of Labor Statistic if you wanted to go to the source. Eg. this. But fair enough. As long as you take any and all claims about law enforcement being "SO dangerous" with a similar pinch of salt.
Those numbers can be deceiving. Some cops work in very low crime areas that are either high income or low population density. That doesn't make the job any less dangerous for police in Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis or other countless areas with high violent crime.
Well yeah, it's all about averages. By the same token, it would be a stretch for a cop in BFE or some rich, low crime town to claim that they're more likely to get killed on the job than a professional painter.
The pendulum swung off it's base and crashed through the window.
