And Hi to you Rhrosty.

As always, I find your threads amusing, you're turn of phrase usually brings a brief grin to my tired old countenance, though occasionally you do speak a little nonsences here'n there.

You assert police should receive more comprehensive training, even our recruiters should broaden their horizens when seeking the ideal recruit.

I spent a few years in our academy (as you do when they've determined you're a broken down ol' hasbeen) and I've met many a potential police officer while there.

Most are good kids, and some are more worldly types. There was this one lass, about 23/25 yoa. Had a degree, spoke well, looked pretty good and had a brilliant smile. Almost a 'sunny' smile you'd call it.

Anyway, during the time I had them, you tend to get to know them pretty well. Their strengths, weaknesses, even their moods. This lass spoke well and during our many Domestic Violence (arrest) scenarios, she developed this view, in fact opined, that more often than not, a quite word, willing smile, and being a 'female' police constable could often defuse a critical 'Domestic' incident, particularly when dealing with a male ?

Some of her class cohorts agreed, others didn't. My opinion, was sometimes ? After they graduate, you tend to lose sight of them unless you return to patrol, then perhaps you'll run into one or two of your former students around the traps.

This lass I never saw again, only heard about her. About seven months after she graduated, she attended a domestic with her senior partner, and had the livin' hell kicked out of her. Now out of the job with serious facial injuries, and suffers from severe psychologically impairement, as well as losing her career.

There's nothing regular or predictable about the role of policing my friend, everythings unpredictable, except the public, the media and your bosses !

Kellie,
That South American lad who died after being tasered. Do you think the Police would have tasered him if he walked down the road minding his own business ?
He wasn't even picked by those officers. From what I have seen in the News he brought it all on himself. He behaved weirdly, was obstructive etc. He just got more than he thought possible before he set out on his weird outing. Don't blame the Police, blame the weirdoes.
Where I live we have a Police Station but it hasn't had the front door open literally for several years. I really wish we had those officers here to put a stop to the break-ins & subsequent letting the mongrels off by queer magistrates.

Does no one here see a creeping fascism like pre-WW2 in Germany? Study your history.Exactly the same scenarios are happening now as enacted by the Nazi Adolph Hitler.

We don't need ROBO COPS running around with tasers injuring us.

The criminals of the GFC {ie The Banking Military Industrial Complex}who stole half of your superannuation have not been charged or face the criminality of their debauchery,yet we are arguing about police brutality that seeks to subdue those who are victims of the poverty and oppression brought on these very same criminal elites.

These very same criminals will steal the the rest of your life savings next yr via the creation of endless cyber money.ie QE3

>>From what I have seen in the News he brought it all on himself. He behaved weirdly, was obstructive etc. He just got more than he thought possible before he set out on his weird outing. Don't blame the Police, blame the weirdoes.<<

It's okay to kill people if they're weird?

Well that should solve the mental health problems in this country: no more waiting lists just line the weirdoes up and shoot them. And it's not just crazies that we can knock off. Overly religious people are weird - JW's, Mormons, happy-clappy Christians, Muslims, Orthodox Jews etc.: they'll all have to go. Old people are usually pretty weird - not just the ones with dementia - so they should go as soon as they hit retirement age. People who like Tony Abbott are weird: the guy's a massive tool so all the Abbott supporters will have to go. Same goes for people who like Kyle Sandilands. And people who watch Funniest Home Videos. And vegetarians. Let's see, anybody else I've forgotten? Oh yes: people who genuinely think that is morally acceptable to kill people if they meet some arbitrary definition of weird. That's weird and scary. They'll definitely have to go.

On reflection it does seem like an awful lot of people to kill. Maybe it's better to just accept that there are lot of very weird people in this world and it's best to just live and let live except when they are dangerously weird. Even then the aim in a civilized society should be to prevent them harming others - readily achieved with a marvelous piece of law enforcement technology called 'handcuffs' - and not to tase them to death.

Cheers,

Tony

It's okay to kill people if they're weird?
Tony Lavis,
What an idiotic remark.

>>What an idiotic remark.<<

That's exactly what I thought when I read this:

>>From what I have seen in the News he brought it all on himself. He behaved weirdly, was obstructive etc. He just got more than he thought possible before he set out on his weird outing. Don't blame the Police, blame the weirdoes.<<

Surely - I thought - no reasonable person could possibly be defending the position that it's okay to tase people to death just because those people are weirdoes who set out on weird outings and behave weirdly during them. Glad to see you've taken my point and recognize the idiocy in your statement.

Cheers,

Tony