Mike Luckovich for January 31, 2023

WHY did the networks insist on showing the body-cam videos? It’s heartless to watch!!! So that will be the norm from now on?

Police need to be psychologically evaluated before they join the force and probably annually after that. The stresses they face doing their jobs has to take a toll on them. They also may be affected by group mentality.

Republican Trump Disciples STILL believe that Kaepernick was kneeling in order to show disrespect to the FLAG.

Once again people, listen carefully. Every occupation has bad apples. People that are pure evil exist in all walks of like.

Just because some surface and do horrible things does not mean everyone in that profession is evil.

Now I’m angry.

Have you Americans ever considered actually TRAINING your police rather than just giving them badges and guns and telling them to go have fun?

True.

Said it before, I’ll say it again. For cops killing an unarmed black guy and getting away with it is practically a job perk.

The message I take from this is police need to be better trained. To be accurate all the cops in the patrol cars need to also be black. At least the five all got defunded as did their unit. Wouldn’t one jolt with a taser do the job if the ‘perp’ truly was combative? It seems to me there has to be more to this story to explain why cops beat a man to death other than just police misconduct.

Heartless, perhaps, but in Florida, Desatis calls it woke.

Shiva called watching the video “heartless”. I think it is more heart-rending. As suggested above by Lyman Elliot, it may fall into the Emmet Till category. Until people have to face the real consequences of their pathologies, nothing will be done.

This.. is getting to be much like testing for witches back in the day, throw em into a river, if they sink.. guilty. Today pull them out of their car and if they run.. gotta be quilty

Because fear-mongering is how the minority stay on power!

The facts of “Defund the police” being that the funds for tasks officers were never trained for and never wanted to do, let alone were suited to do would be better spent on people and agencies designed and dedicated to perform those very tasks – thus leaving police to enforce laws and not become psych evaluators and mental health outreach personnel nor custodians of lost souls of any age or background – do make sense once you get over a horrible choice of phrasing a reasonable plan for all involved. But the GQP keeps chewing on that old bone after it has been ground to dust. And yet they have offered zip and zero and nada as an alternative to the simple fact that the old-boy entrenched stereotypes in law enforcement have precluded professionalism all too often and allowed the “It has always be so and always will be” attitudes of protect the bad cops and corrupt cops to be pervasive even at the expense of good cops let alone innocent civilians. Let us see 1 concept of a workable positive change to rectify the situation from the cult of the GQP. Even just 1 would be a start but they got nothin’

I grew up in a tourist town with a Police State mentality. The locals said that our city’s motto should be “Arrive on vacation; leave on probation.”

Tourists in a beach town are going to get a little wild; it’s a given. You’ve got a taser, a night stick, pepper gas, and more. You COULD walk up to a person and tell him/her to settle down. Or you could take that person to jail. (One 16-year-old tourist was cited for littering because her ice cream dripped on the sidewalk. She had to return from her hometown to face trial. The judge threw it out, but she was still fined court costs. True story.)

You could put a parking ticket on an out-of-state car, or you could tow it 20 miles from the strip and let the owner deal with the most surly and intentionally-unhelpful people available in order to ransom your vehicle.

Funny: now the only people who go to the oceanfront are people looking for trouble. I warned city council many times before I moved out. I’m sorry I was right.

There is almost nothing so expensive and costly for a community than having just one bad cop on their force. Keeps the lawyers happy though. Police protectionism by politicians, police leaders and news pundits is a crime after the fact.

“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” —Cmdr. William Adama, TV series Battlestar Galactica

DWB.

Too many police departments hire straight from the military and consider the officers “pre trained”.

My county used to require that people started working in the jail before they became officers on the street. This way they learned to work with potentially volatile situations without having a gun. Shame they discontinued this.