In Los Angeles, a woman was celebrating the Knicks’ victory in the NBA when a neighbour called the police about the noise… 20 cops showed up and shot her dog, a “dangerous” Golden Doodle, when she opened the door to her home.

  • krashmo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There is merit to some of what you say, but they still took the job. If you can’t make reasonable decisions with firearms then you shouldn’t be a cop. The rest is just noise.

    • rowinxavier@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I mean, yes, they are clearly individually bad, people making bad choices because they do not value the life of a dog above any risk to themselves or even fairly minor inconvenience.

      At the same time, this is a bad job. Not a bad job to have, a bad job for society to make. There should not be cops. Cops are way to mixed as a profession.

      Investigators of crimes? That is a reasonable job.

      Dispute resolution specialists? Sure.

      Someone to step between people having a domestic altercation? Yes, of course.

      But just like you wouldn’t want an emergency room doctor to also be a mortician you shouldn’t want the traffic enforcement person to be the one to deal with a mental health crisis. The role has grown too large and cannot reasonably be performed well. It needs to be divided.

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      3 days ago

      I think it’s more of an issue of the minimum qualification requirements and the quality of police training. I thought that the whole point of training is to make sure you will make reasonable decisions with a firearm?