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Right, the police should just stand there and let someone attack them at close range with a weapon.
The police should only use their guns if the other person is known to be wielding a firearm. Otherwise the police should not be using their guns. We'll never know in this case because apparently Albq police do not feel it necessary to wear body cams. No body cams = no accountability.
If body cams are available, but not worn, maybe benefit of the doubt should go to the homicide victim.Then every Albuquerque cop would be wearing a body cam on their next shift.
Im totally with you on this. You and I argue about a lot of other stuff on these threads, but on this particular point I'm 100% aligned.
The police should only use their guns if the other person is known to be wielding a firearm. Otherwise the police should not be using their guns. We'll never know in this case because apparently Albq police do not feel it necessary to wear body cams. No body cams = no accountability.
Albuquerque Police are required to wear lapel cameras.
This incident was the Bernalillo County Sheriff, I believe they are in the process of acquiring lapel cameras.
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There are areas of this country where gun ownership is high, but gun violence is low. There is a demographic pattern to gun violence that many don't want to see. Since you love statistics so much:
Of course, all of this is an open secret, but one that must not be talked about. But yeah, take away guns from the more typically law-abiding segments of the population, so they can't defend themselves from the segments of the population that commit disproportionate amounts of violent crime.
Except one thing. Albuquerque has a high violent crime, and Blacks are about 3% of the population.
Something else. I would look for a better site than SBPDL(Stuff Black People Don't Like). This is the same blogger that says "disarming Black America is the answer to gun violence". Someone who advocates for revoking an entire ethnicity's 2nd Amendment rights isn't someone you should cite.
Poverty and disenfranchisement are what correlate with crime (not race or ethnicity)
Other factors in addition to what you said include broken homes (and being raised badly), individuals with anger issues, and the way some people think can lead them to crime.
Other factors in addition to what you said include broken homes (and being raised badly), individuals with anger issues, and the way some people think can lead them to crime.
Yeah some people are just hard wired for crime regardless of what kind of environment they grow up in.
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