Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
Those deaths need to be minimized. And the BEST way to do that is to ensure criminals are off the street,s that there is zero tolerance for resisting arrest/fleeing arrest. Add in body cams for the small minority of bad apples in the bunch and you have a recipe for minimizing innocent lives AND police lives being lost.
What utter nonsense.

The BEST way to minimize "bad" shootings--both in absolute and relative terms--is to discourage your trigger-happy and careless cops from trying to solve almost all problems, esp. those involving black men, using guns or other forms of lethal violence, while also helping them develop the necessary skills and strategies required to identify and implement alternative and less lethal methods. You discourage criminally reckless police behaviour by, among other means, successfully prosecuting or otherwise sanctioning cops for unnecessary killings, not by making excuses for their failures. "Bad shootings" represent the price you've chosen to pay in order to get a police force chock full of violent, racist and occasionally murderous asshats--or just a bunch of people who're like you. They are a direct consequence of training cops to be indifferent to the value of human life. If you want to address the problem effectively you'll have to find an alternative to extrajudicial killings for your daily entertainment.