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In reply to the discussion: Deputies shoot man in his front yard He was getting cigarette out of his mother's car [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Required in all high schools...
Video game simulations of different situations the police would face in the course of a day...or their careers.
It might make the streets safer and give ignorant people a look into how difficult it is to make split second decisions that don't kill other people, but which also don't leave the officers dead.
It's really kind of sad to sit here and read how "The pigs shot an unarmed man!!!" when it's only known in retrospect that the person was unarmed.
What do people want...police to be mind readers? To know beforehand whether someone is a threat or not?
Do they want the police to assume that nobody is a threat? That's not how it works. When they do that, they can end up dead.
I've seen video where an apparently compliant suspect suddenly turns and attacks the officer. Plenty where the guy is so strong or hopped up on drugs that it takes two...three...or more...strong men to subdue him.
Maybe if more people actually got to put themselves...even just for a few hours via a video game, much like how they show kids what happens from texting while driving...in the place of police officers they wouldn't be running around judging or second-guessing.
I would bet that most of the loudest voices would fail miserably...either ending up "killing" suspects, or being "killed" themselves.