NorthDakota
Grandson of Loomis
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While I'd love to think there is an answer, not sure there is. The US is simply much more violent compared to other comparable places like western Euros. Not just talking about homicide rate, but violence in general. The US rape rate per capita vs others is horrible. In short, I think we have a violence problem as much as cops shooting people problem.
What are police supposed to do when a person with a knife advances on them? In the latest case, the cops were trying to fall back, but the guy kept coming. Sad that he lost his life, but I'm just not sure there is another response. And it seems more and more feel emboldened they can do whatever they want. Some of the vids lately of cops falling back while rioters pelt them with bricks and rocks, and the one where they female cop gets run over by a truck are pretty scary. The failure to stop that behavior only creates more and worse.
Yeah I'm not really sure what people want. Police have a hard job. I suppose you could try to tell them to use tazers but I'm not really comfortable telling cops that they should have to respond to a lethal weapon with a non-lethal one that might not even be effective.
Here's what I will say though, the media needs to start covering these things more appropriately because this is getting beyond dumb.