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  1. Dec 2015
  2. www.thenation.com www.thenation.com
    Are We Training Cops to Be Hyper-Aggressive ‘Warriors’?
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    1. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      According to PERF’s report, cops say “the 21-foot rule is a part of police culture, handed down informally from one officer to another, or mentioned in training, over the generations.” The author of the article, a Salt Lake City cop, urged his fellow officers to use defensive tactics to stay outside of that 21-foot zone, but police officials interviewed by PERF staffers say that over the years many cops took it to mean that there’s a 21-foot “kill zone” where deadly force is justified.

      This shows that even when rules are put into place that there is misinterpretation if it is not explained in detail. Officers should have a 21 foot gap in between them and the suspect, but most officers assume that the 21 foot rule means if the suspect comes within that 21 foot zone its reasonable cause to shot. This is mind blowing.

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    2. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      constantly repeated message leads many officers to see citizens as threats—and to view themselves as “warriors” rather than “guardians” of their communities.

      This leaves citizens wondering if police officers can be trusted to make the right decisions or will everyone always be a threat. They are suppose to be here to help us not see us as a threat and questionable.

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    3. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      There are times when you get called to a situation where someone is obviously distraught or emotionally disturbed and they might have a knife or a stick or a rock, and that’s where we need to slow things down, maintain a safe distance and call in additional resources. And most importantly, we need to start at a lower level of force and begin to communicate.” He adds: “With a mentally ill person, the worst thing you can do is shove a gun in their face and start barking orders at them. It’s counterproductive.”

      Side Notes: These are example of how England police respond because they are unarmed and how they approach situations. Its amazing how they go in with a open mind and access the situation before trying to assume things.

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    4. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      That cadet will receive another 24 hours of scenario-based training, drilling on things like when to shoot or hold fire. The median trainee also gets 48 hours of instruction on constitutional law and his or her department’s use-of-force policies.

      This leaves people asking is this enough training to prepare them for the field. Or are they learning on the field because theirs not enough training and guidelines.

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    5. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      a Washington, DC–based think tank, found that American cops are given extensive preparation for using violence, and very little guidance on how to avoid it.

      Side Note: This shows that officers have one mindset which is to use lethal force to resolve there situations. This should be the last resort and other options need to given such as tasers, peppers prey other means that will not cost an individual there life if there is some kind of mistake.

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    6. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      Dispatchers led Williams and his partner to believe that an active-shooter situation was underway.

      This shows that communication is not being established between officers and dispatchers which has caused many misinterpretations of the situations they are trying to resolve.

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    7. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      “taught to keep in mind that ‘the suspect wants a body count’ and therefore officers should immediately engage a would-be gunman with ‘speed, surprise and aggressiveness.’”

      Thesis: Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation because today's police officers are responding to calls based on little amount of information, which causes them to go into the field with an unchangeable mindset. They consider their mindset reasonable which results with them using lethal force instead of assessing the situation and options available

      Approaching these people with aggression could cause them to become more violent. But having police officers go into a situation with this mindset has recently caused unnecessary deaths of civilians.

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    8. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      had been trained to respond to “active shooter situations” by shooting first and asking questions later.

      Thesis: Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation because today's police officers are responding to calls based on little amount of information, which causes them to go into the field with an unchangeable mindset. They consider their mindset reasonable which results with them using lethal force instead of assessing the situation and options available

      This only proves that officers are already going into a situation with the mindset of everyone being dangerous and lethal force is necessary, instead of having them use other options available.

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    9. JSteines 06 Dec 2015
      Crawford was a young black man gunned down by white cops in a Beaverton Creek, Ohio, Walmart as he talked to his girlfriend on the phone while absentmindedly holding a BB gun he had grabbed from a store shelf. Ohio is an “open-carry” state where it’s perfectly legal to walk around with a loaded AR-15.

      Thesis: Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation because today's police officers are responding to calls based on little amount of information; which causes them to go into the field with an unchangeable mindset. They consider their mindset reasonable which results with them using lethal force instead of assessing the situation and options available

      Even though this is an "open carry" state this shows that the officers went into this situation thinking this man was dangerous . When they went into the field with this mindset in caused them to over look things such as the man holding a BB gun and not a real gun.

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  3. Nov 2015
  4. www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
    One Year After Ferguson: Why Nobody Knows How Many People Are Killed by Police
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    1. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      Some rely heavily on local news accounts, which can be incomplete or inaccurate.

      They are still working out a way to keep inaccurate information out of the statistics. This also leaves people asking will they keep out certain information to make officers look better. Can we rely on them to tell the truth is a question some individuals are asking.

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    2. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      The Washington Post, restricting its count to the number of people shot to death by the police, has counted 585 this year. That includes 24 who were black and unarmed.

      This gives you an idea of how they are categorizing this information. Not only by how many police shooting have taken place but race, gender, and wither they were armed or unarmed.

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    3. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      The Facebook page Killed by Police, which aggregates news reports of police killings, has counted 714 this year through Monday. A website called Fatal Encounters is trying to account for every police killing of the last decade and a half and has recorded more than 7,300.

      These are just a few sites that have begun to keep track of the number of police shootings, and the number of officers killed in the line of duty.

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    4. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      A deadly force situation in Buffalo might help inform how an officer in St. Louis should be trained, and ultimately save an officer's life, he said. And transparency would increase public confidence in police departments.

      This shows that once a police data base is established it is beneficial to both police and civilians. By providing this information it allows civilians to be confident in police actions. But also helpful for officers as well because it allows them to see which city's have a higher crime rate and how police officers are responding to those situations.

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    5. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      "We just took photographs of Pluto. If we can do that, we can put police records on shootings into a national database."

      A police database can be established to show this information, it just hasn't been done yet. There have been recent sites keeping tract of the number of police shootings in the last year.

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    6. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      Law enforcement experts say that accurate data would be an important step toward repairing the rift between police departments and the public, and toward curtailing unnecessary use of force.

      By sharing this information it could cut down on the amount of force police officers use if they know they are to report all there information. Civilians will also see what is going on in there city and how police officers are responding which may put them at easy. Seeing the number of shooting taking place recently by police officers we need reassurance they are responding appropriately and reasonably.

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    7. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      Not James Comey, the director of the FBI, which admits that its own statistics are incomplete.

      Police departments are aware they can't provide accurate numbers because they do not keep tract of this information.

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    8. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      For a year, the country has focused on the conduct of police officers, particularly in their encounters with black men — men like Michael Brown and Freddie Gray and Samuel DuBose.

      The public has started to take notice of police actions because of the number of recent deaths by men that may have been unharmed. There have been other men such as Tamir Rice, Corey Jones, Milton Hall and others that have lost there lives due to police actions and misinterpretation.

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    9. JSteines 30 Nov 2015
      The federal government keeps statistics on how many Americans go to the symphony every year (25.6 million), how many Botox procedures are performed (3.7 million) and how many acres of farmland exist in the United States (914 million).

      These leaves you asking why are police departments not keeping this information on file. Knowing this information allows the country to see how police officers respond in different areas and if there is a problem. Seeing this information will allow us to see if police officers are abusing their power or if police officers are resulting to lethal force under reasonable causes.

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  5. www.policeone.com www.policeone.com
    New reaction-time study addresses what’s ‘reasonable’ in armed-suspect encounters
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    1. JSteines 28 Nov 2015
      That’s the critical question Blair’s study addresses. “As our findings show, most officers can’t fire faster than a suspect with a weapon in hand, even if it is not aimed at the officer,” his team writes. Consequently, “we think that an officer who decided to shoot [in the kinds of situations tested] meets the legal definition of reasonableness,” given the “close range of the encounter, the lack of available cover, the failure of the suspect to comply with multiple warnings, and the data” collected.

      In certain situation the officer has a reasonable right to respond by firing there weapon not everyone with a gun poses a threat so it vary from situation to situation. But when an individual has a gun out they are more likely to fire first before the officer reacts. This shows that officers aren't firing immediately when they see a gun but trying to access the situation before using lethal force.

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    2. JSteines 28 Nov 2015
      The process of perceiving the suspect’s movement, interpreting the action, deciding on a response, and executing the response for the officer generally took longer

      This shows that people officers are thinking about there actions and the situation that's going on before firing there gun.

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    3. JSteines 28 Nov 2015
      The miniscule edge did go to the suspects, technically. Examined case by case, they shot faster than officers or precisely simultaneously in more than 60% of the encounters. “Even in situations where the officer was faster, there was less than a 0.2-second difference, suggesting that the suspect would still get a shot off in most of these encounters,” the researchers state.

      This shows that even if the shooter fires first that police officers are just slightly slower in firing there weapon which means they are still put in harms way because the shooter has already fired at the officer. The study shows that in more then half of the experiment police officers responded slower then the individual they were trying to pursue with the weapon, whither it was fired at them or a sucide attempt.

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    4. JSteines 28 Nov 2015
      Later, the research team conducted a meticulous frame-by-frame analysis of video recordings of 159 of the shooting exchanges.

      They conducted a study that used SWAT team members that have been on the force for 10 plus years to see what there reaction was in different situations dealing with guns. Almost like a field trial. When the individual followed there instruction to put the weapon down no one was hurt.

      Side note: This could have been a little basis because these individuals have had 10 or more years of experience, dosen't necessarily mean that someone with less experience will act the same.

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    5. JSteines 28 Nov 2015
      “Even when a police officer has his or her gun aimed at [an armed] suspect and the suspect is not aiming at the officer, the officer is still in extreme danger....

      This shows that officers are still in danger when they are facing individuals with guns because some people don't know what their mindset is or what they could potentially do with the weapon.

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  6. www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
    Man Killed by Officer in Florida Didn’t Fire His Weapon, Prosecutors Tell Family
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    1. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      “He was an intelligent man, a composed man who never lost his temper, lost his cool or spoke anything negative.”

      This gives you an idea of what Corey was like as a person bringing gin some pathos.

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    2. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      possession of morphine pills that he had seized three weeks earlier.

      Personal Note: Again this shows that this officer does not follow protocol and is questionable in his actions.

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    3. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      Officer Raja, who had been on the job for just six months, apparently failed to disclose on his job application that he had been reprimanded at his last police job for neglecting to turn over morphine recovered from a suspect, records from his previous job show.

      Personal Side Note: This leaves the question now on wither he is disclosing accurate information now since he was the only witness in this case. Why did they let him in the field knowing its possible he isn't an honest police officer and has had incidents such as these.

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    4. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      s “We have confirmed that Corey never fired his gun,

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      The officer saw him as a threat even when no fires were shot, so immediately reacted to the situation in which he really had no idea what was going on. Side note: This leaves the question on wither or not he pulled his weapon if no fires had been shot and it wasn't found near his body.

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    5. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      The police have declined to say how many times the officer fired his weapon, whether words were exchanged or whether Mr. Jones was pointing his weapon.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      If the victim did pull his weapon the officer should have quickly said he was an officer, before pulling his weapon and firing. Did he bother to try any communication before approaching him. Also leaves the question did he pull his gun which was found 8-10 feet away from his body.

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    6. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      Mr. Jones’s death is the latest in a string of contentious shootings of black men by the police, and is gaining national attention because of the dead man’s lack of a criminal record and his history as a church band member

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This is just a side note: Are police officers going into situations stereotyping minorities which causes hostility and misinterpretation in some cases.

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    7. JSteines 18 Nov 2015
      The Palm Beach Gardens police said Mr. Jones “confronted” Officer Nouman K. Raja, who then fired his weapon.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This leaves the questions of readers asking whither this police officer identified himself or why the police officer pulled over then open fired. It may be because he didn't tell Mr.Jones he was an officer or simple misinterpretation.

      This is just one example of how a lack of communication between an officer and civilian can go badly and cost a man his life which could have been avoided with an introduction. Side note: This happened when the officer was off duty.

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  7. www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
    When Peace Officers Dress for War
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    2. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      Sure, in the occupational culture women and minorities are not treated well within the force.

      This is why minorities and women avoid this field and if this is a problem within there ranks then we know police officers may not be responding correctly with minorities and women they try to help or arrest.

    3. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      better training

      Better training should require them being trained to use the equipment they recieve instead of letting them in the field with it to find out themselves.

    4. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      This extravagant response is high risk for everyone involved, he says.

      I don't think this is high risk for the police officers. They are abusing man power and special tactics teams to keep equipment they don't need or shouldn't have.

    5. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      For police units receiving the weaponry, training in its use or maintenance is not required.

      They needed to be trained how to use this equipment before using them in the field. We don't give soldiers weapons and not train them. This is mind blowing.

    6. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      “When police view you as an asshole, they’ll deal with you with street justice,

      Wasn't this organization created to go by the books? They shouldn't follow their own rules instead of creating there own.

    7. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      that people cannot be trusted and are dangerous, that everyone hates cops,

      This shows they are stereotyping people and go into a situation with a mind set that can't be changed. This means they may not even listen to what people have to say.

    8. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      This subjective, haphazard method of policing was anything but fair and just.

      It's possible that some police officers don't enforce every law today. But there have also been police officers, judges that have been proven to be unfair and questionable. Again these people didn't have training and they volunteered.

    9. JSteines 17 Nov 2015
      Many point to the antiterrorism push to arm cops with military-grade weapons and gear following 9/11.

      Yes 9/11 was an unfortunate event, but arming police officers with military equipment they aren't trained to use may not be the answer. We have different branches of the military to resolve these types of events. The police departments aren't trained to handle these events.

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    War Gear Flows to Police Departments
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    1. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      It protects police officers.

      I understand that police officers do need protection, but I do believe that every officers knows in the back of there mind they have a chance of being killed or hurt on the job and that's a risk they take when entering that field along with soldiers.

    2. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

      Are they talking about American soldiers? The people that fight for our country? This is mind blowing.

    3. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      The pace of transfers depends on how much unneeded equipment the military has, and how much the police request. Equipment that goes unclaimed typically is destroyed.

      Why is the military not keeping this equipment? This could be needed later down the road. Isn't it better for our soldiers to have these materials?

    4. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      “All of a sudden, we start relationships with people,”

      Is it really starting a relationship? Or are people really wanting to know why police officers and SWAT members have this type of equipment and armored vehicles.

    6. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      the wars have wound down, and despite current fears, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.

      Why do they feel the need to suit up and have body armored vehicles if crime has been decreasing?

    7. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      “We’re not going to go out there as Officer Friendly with no body armor and just a handgun and say ‘Good enough.’ ”

      These people are not soldiers. Yes being a police officer can be dangerous but now there going to the extreme. There have been many situations were police officers have killed innocent people this could increase those numbers.

    8. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      But the department’s old armored car could not withstand high-powered gunfire, he said.

      How often do they need to use this armored car? In the begging of this paragraph it said they have a low crime rate.

    9. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      “It just seems like ramping up a police department for a problem we don’t have,”

      There will always be a deference between police officers and soldiers. Soldiers are made for combat. Giving police officers this equipment is extreme if there not trained to fight the way soldiers are. I understand people are worried that a terrorist attack could happen but are police departments aren't trained to handle situations such as 9/11.

    10. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”

      Was this really necessary? This seems a little extreme to take down a barbershop when there resources could be used for better things.

    11. JSteines 16 Nov 2015
      the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

      Why is the public not being informed of these weapons in our local police departments. Shouldn't we have the right to know?

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    Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes
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    2. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      turned the federal civil asset forfeiture law into a weapon against the illegal drug trade, allowing for the seizure of aircraft, boats and vehicles used to transport drugs.

      This clear says its to be used against illegal drug trade.

    4. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      He said he saw that change when agency leaders realized that cash seizures could help their departments during lean times.

      This does not justify there actions.

    5. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      A federal prosecutor in Nebraska warned that Black Asphalt reports could violate laws governing civil liberties, the handling of sensitive law enforcement information and the disclosure of pretrial information to defendants. But officials at Justice and Homeland Security continued to use it.

      This shows that these individuals chose to use this regardless of the warning because they didn't care if they were abusing the power they were given. Its almost like they expect individuals to stay quite about it and not fight back because they are police officers.

    6. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      Hundreds of state and local departments and drug task forces appear to rely on seized cash, despite a federal ban on the money to pay salaries or otherwise support budgets

      This shouldn't be the way to pay police salary's. This is just mind blowing.

    7. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      The practice has been controversial since its inception at the height of the drug war more than three decades ago, and its abuses have been the subject of journalistic exposés and congressional hearings.

      If this is controversial and has been abused in the past why would they want officers to enforce this practice. I don't understand why decisions like this are made.

    8. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      Hain’s book calls for “turning our police forces into present-day Robin Hoods.”

      I believe Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. These police officers are just abusing there power.

    9. JSteines 09 Nov 2015
      criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop.

      This may be going a little to fair. I understand that you want people to fallow laws but there's no need to find out their address or social security numbers. When they pull over these suspects without any reason it starts to stereotype these individuals.

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  10. photographyisnotacrime.com photographyisnotacrime.com
    Canadian Cops Kill Dog That Video Shows Was Clearly Not a Threat - PINAC
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    1. JSteines 03 Nov 2015
      In other words, it was not a matter of defending their dog, but a matter of seeking revenge for their dog.

      The author claims that the police officer shot the dog out of revenge which shows his bias with the police officers action. But again doesn't have a reliable video.

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    2. JSteines 03 Nov 2015
      The video is recorded in the vertical mode and she is swinging the phone all over the place, so it does not capture the scene in its entirety

      He doesn't have a reliable video so this doesn't help him prove is argument.

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    3. JSteines 03 Nov 2015
      Canadian Cops Kill Dog That Video Shows Was Clearly Not a Threat

      This can be said to be a bad source because this man established the site himself and has been arrested by the police for taking photographs which is way he has a strong bias against police. You can also see that he doesn't use proper language in this article and many of the other articles he has written.

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    In Tamir Rice Case, Many Errors by Cleveland Police, Then a Fatal One
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    1. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      But there, according to police records, he had emotional problems related to a girlfriend. At a shooting range, he was “distracted and weepy,” a supervisor said. One of his supervisors concluded that Officer Loehmann “would not be able to substantially cope, or make good decisions,” during stressful situations. After six months, the department allowed him to resign.

      This is a little information on the police officer that shot Tamir Rice. The police department in Ohio was able to see that this officer could not make good decisions under pressure so they allowed him to resign. Why didn't the other police department look into his files??? It shows that he makes poor decisions and this could have been avoided if another officer was in his place.

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    2. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      “His mother didn’t allow him around guns whatsoever, toy guns, water guns,” Mr. Goldsby said. “She knows about things like this. She knows that somebody would mistake it for a real gun.”

      This is another side note that I think helps the misinterpretation argument. It shows Tamir's mother saying she didn't allow any type of toy gun because she knew the possibility of them being mistaken as a real one. This shows that many parents are scared that police officers may not make the right decision when seeing these fake gun replicas of children toys.

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    3. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      Officers Garmback and Loehmann did not check Tamir’s vital signs or perform first aid in the minutes after he was shot. But Officer Garmback frantically requested an emergency medical team at least seven times, urging the dispatcher to “step it up” and to send medical workers from a fire station a block away. It would be eight minutes before they arrived.

      This is just another side note that shows if police officers are going to be allowed to use extreme force and have the ability to kill an individual they need to be trained in basic first aid. It's possible that if his wounds where treated earlier his life may have been spared.

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    4. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      And when Tamir’s 14-year-old sister came running up minutes later, the officers, who are white, tackled her to the ground and put her in handcuffs, intensifying later public outrage about the boy’s death. When his distraught mother arrived, the officers also threatened to arrest her unless she calmed down, the mother, Samaria Rice, said.

      This is just a personal side note. This goes to show even after a misinterpretation of communication the police officers are still using force to try and resolve this situation, when in reality its not helping them. Any mother or sister would run to there son or sibling when scared for there life as a normal human reaction.

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    5. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      When the officers raced into action, they took a shortcut that pointed their squad car straight into the park, pulling up so close to Tamir that it made it difficult to take cover, or to use verbal persuasion or other tactics suggested by the department’s use-of-force policy.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This is showing us that these police officers where aware of how close they were pulling up to Tamir and knew that it left them no time to use tactic situations. They could have pulled further away to use these tactics but chose not to do so. Instead they open fired. This could lead to the argument how can we trust police officers to make the right decision wen they react to the situation with out knowing the full details. I'm not sure if individuals can rely on officers to do the right thing without putting up stronger regulations on when to pull a gun instead of them just using it when they feel there life is in danger. It needs to have more restrictions then the previous cause.

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    6. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      What the officers, Frank Garmback and his rookie partner, Tim Loehmann, did hear from a dispatcher was, “We have a Code 1,” the department’s highest level of urgency.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This is just a side note that shows us that dispatchers don't explaining the situation or giving detailed descriptions when using a protocol code. Which causes the police officers to assume or stereotype a situation that may not be a potential threat.

      rvc#190

    7. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      But the boy, Tamir Rice, was only 12. Now, with the county sheriff’s office reviewing the shooting, interviews and recently released video and police records show how a series of miscommunications, tactical errors and institutional failures by the Cleveland police cascaded into one irreversible mistake.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      Again as said in a previous article the death of Tamir Rice could ave been avoided if there had been better communication established between the police officers and the individual in charge of sending out the dispatches. Tamir's case shows that misinterpretation can cause an individual there life and is an example of why other options should be available then extreme violence.

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    Friendly fire likely wounded officer in wrong-house encounter - CNN.com
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    1. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      The GBI's statement provided additional details: "Upon entry to the residence, the officers encountered a dog. Two officers fired their weapons striking and killing the animal in the kitchen. A male in the home, later determined to be the homeowner, exited a room off the kitchen and was also shot by the responding officers."

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This can be used in my argument to show that a lack of information can cause police officers to respond to quickly.The dog could have been spared if they didn't assume it to be aggressive. The homeowner also could have been avoid being shot if they didn't assume he was a thief. If they didn't fire there guns the other police officer wouldn't have been injured. Due to the lack of information police officers being to assume things that are not correct or begin to stereotype.

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    2. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      But the caller didn't give an address for the house where the suspicious person was seen, county public safety director Cedric Alexander said. Instead, the caller described it as a tan-and-brick one-story home, the GBI said.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This new story shows that because of a lack of information given by the caller who called in a suspicious stranger and didn't give an address it gave the officers little information so they responded to the situation anyway. This whole situation could have been avoided if either the caller gave an address or if the police officers didn't respond to this call which they shouldn't have not having any information to go off of.

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    Officers in Bronx Fire 41 Shots, And an Unarmed Man Is Killed
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      The officers did not communicate over their radios before they approached Mr. Diallo, the police said, so investigators said they did not know what prompted their initial interest in him. Nor is it known why the officers began firing. A second police official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, ''We don't know what happened, because we haven't spoken to them, but it looks like one guy may have panicked and the rest followed suit.''

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This can be used to argue my point because it shows that these officers failed to communicate over the radio on what was going on or the situation they where trying to investigate. No one even knows why these police officers opened fired at this man. Which shows that police officers should not have the decision to open fire on an individual unless they are shot at first. They killed an innocent man because of there mistakes.

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    2. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      Police rules on when officers can fire their guns are explicit: deadly force can be used only when officers fear for their lives or the lives of others. But once they decide to shoot, officers are trained to fire until they ''stop'' the target from causing harm. They are told not to fire warning shots, and to aim for the center of the body, not arms or legs.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      Here we can see that police officers can determine to use deadly force when they see fit with no clear regulation. I think many individuals believe that an individual can be stopped without being terminated and warnings should be given. If this is how they are trained and trained to kill then they need to be trained to save that individuals life as well in case of misinterpretation.

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    Two Years Later, No Charges After Police Kill Homeless Man in Barrage of 46 Shots
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      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This is just a note that can help readers see that in many situations police officers use brutal force to resolve a situation. Society is giving these individuals the power to determine life or death; how do we know there not going to abuse it and will do all they can before resulting to these conditions. It seems that there have been many cases that individuals were killed in situations that could have been avoided.

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    2. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      The officers fired 46 shots in a matter of seconds, hitting Hall 14 times. Once on the ground, an officer turned him over, handcuffed him, and put his foot on Hall’s back

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      I can use this to show once again that police officers are using deadly force instead of finding a non violent way to resolve situations.This is very similar to the recent case with Tamir Rice where even though after being shot and posing no real threat they provide no medical aid and immediately handcuff them. Officers need to be trained in basic first aid, but how to approach situations like these to avoid unnecessary deaths.

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    3. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      On a quiet Sunday in July 2012 in broad daylight, six police officers in Michigan repeatedly shot an African-American man struggling with homelessness and mental illness.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      I can use this to help make my point because I'm not sure if the police officers where informed that this man had a mental illness. If they were informed that he was they may have responded differently. But even in this situation the man posed no real threat to them. When he felt like he was going to be attacked by the dog he responded by pulling out a small pocket knife, which caused the eight police officers to open fire.

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    Spring Valley High School officer suspended - CNN.com
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      In his incident report, Fields writes that he used "muscling techniques" to get the student out of her chair. He says she resisted, pulled away and hit him in the chest with a closed fist.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today's police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      I could use this to argue my point that police officers aren't accessing the situation and options available. I could even argue that police officers and civilians have different definition of "muscling techniques" when seeing how he handled this young girl. Is this how we want police officers to respond to our children, when they should be logical thinkers and protectors.

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    2. JSteines 02 Nov 2015
      The videos show the officer standing over a student, seated at her desk. He puts his arm near her neck, then yanks her backward. The desk tips over and the student crashes onto the floor.The uniformed officer doesn't let go, sharply tugging the student toward the front of the classroom. She flies out of her desk and slides several feet across the floor.

      Human life can be lost due to misinterpretation. Today's police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      Even tough human life is not lost in this situation I can still use this to prove my point. No one knows the full details on why this girl was asked to be removed from the class room. We do know that she wasn't harming the other students in the classroom but just refusing to move. The officer could ave approached this differently but instead chose to use extreme force to remove the girl from her chair.

      This shows that police officers are more likely to use force ten other means to resolve situations regardless on age or type of behavior.

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    DRAKE DANCE REVOLUTION: The ‘Hotline Bling’ Video
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      doing something else that some people characterize as cool.

      This is showing us that even celebrates are forced to be something that there not. Then when they do produce a piece of work that actually expresses who they are people view it negatively. We are constantly changing things with music and dance so whats consider cool will not last forever. So why not be you.

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    Tamir Rice report: No proof officer warned before shots - CNN.com
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      Officers at the scene said they thought Rice was 16-20 and the FBI agent said he first thought Rice was "eighteen-ish," based on his size. Rice was 5 feet 7 and weighed 195 pounds, according to the autopsy. The agent said he heard Rice's sister screaming that he was only 12 years old. The agent said, "I remember thinking to myself, I'm like, 'There's no way.' And I looked at his face, I'm like, 'Yeah.' He's got a young-looking face. ..."

      Human life can lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      When not given the proper information before responding to a police call it cause the officers to profile individuals. This causes police officers to respond differently and more quickly to a situation with out being able to full justify there reactions.

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    2. JSteines 25 Oct 2015
      The two officers appeared upset and shell-shocked, he said, wanting to help Rice but not knowing what to do. The agent, a national registered paramedic who'd served in the military, tried to stop the bleeding and got assistance from an officer when he asked for it. Janell Rutherford, supervisor for patrols in that area, said patrol cars were not equipped with first-aid kits and officers had no first-aid training beyond basic CPR.

      Human life can lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      Police officers should be trained in basic first aid and CPR because they are dealing with peoples lives every day.How do we know as individuals there making the right choice when there not even trained in basic first-aid this can mean the difference between life and death such as Tamir's situation.

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    Where's data on officer-involved killings? - CNN.com
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      For example, in 1999, four plainclothes New York officers fired 41 shots at unarmed Guinea immigrant Amadou Diallo, 22.The officers in the special street crimes unit thought Diallo was reaching for a gun when it was really his wallet. They were charged but later acquitted of murder, and the U.S. Justice Department concluded it didn't have enough evidence to prosecute the officers.Diallo's family later settled a wrongful death suit against the city for $3 million.In 2012, police in Saginaw, Michigan, fired 46 bullets at a knife-wielding homeless man, Milton Hall, 49, in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant, in full view of passing motorists. A video of the incident was obtained by CNN weeks later, and a controversy arose over why officers fired so many shots at Hall, who was just a few yards away.

      Human life can lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This article shares two other examples similar to Tamir Rice. A victim named Amadou Diallo who was shot forty-one times by police officer but didn't see he was reaching for his wallet. Police officer were not arrested because of lack of evidence. Another victim by the name of Milton Hall who was a homeless man wielding a knife yards away from the police where he was shot forty-six times caught on video. This shows how quick officers are responding to situations that could have been approached differently, but the number of fires shot leaves the reader asking why so many when one should have been enough.

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    Tamir Rice shooting was 'reasonable,' two experts conclude - CNN.com
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      "However, for all of the reasons discussed herein, I conclude that Officer Loehmann's belief that Rice posed a threat of serious physical harm or death was objectively reasonable as was his response to that perceived threat."

      Human life can lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      This situation could have been approached in many different ways. Why didn't the officers pull the car up further away to give Tamir a change to feel less threatened, or give him a warning from a distance rather then jumping from there vehicle. The officer could have shot Tamir in another location that could have been less life threatening or fire a shot for warning.

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    2. JSteines 25 Oct 2015
      Tamir Rice was killed by an officer in training outside a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014. The shooting sparked controversy given Tamir's age and the fact that he had a gun that resembled a handgun but fired pellets.

      Human life can lost due to misinterpretation. Today’s police officers are responding to calls based on little amounts of information which may cause them to respond more quickly before accessing the situation and options available.

      Tamir Rice is only one example of an unfortunate event that was caused by misinterpretation because of the lack of information given to them before there encounter with Tamir, which could have been prevented if information was left out.

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    The Lonely Death of George Bell
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      He respected his friend Bell. Bell might not have known it but even after his passing he has changed the life of these children. Leading back to the previous ripple effect.

    2. JSteines 24 Oct 2015
      Death, though, isn’t social. It’s business. No need to have known someone to get his money.

      This leaves the reader asking what has society come to. Are we no longer human beings but just transactions.

    3. JSteines 24 Oct 2015
      Some nuggets they salvaged for themselves. One man fancied a set of Marilyn Monroe porcelain plates. Another worker plucked up an unopened jumbo package of Nike socks, some model cars and some brand-new sponges. Yet another claimed the television and an unused carbon monoxide detector. Gatherings from a life, all worth more than that $3 watch.

      This goes into detail about the things taken from his house by other individuals. The previous passages included his car and watch being sold. This triggers emotions within the readers. It brings sadness and yet the truth about some individuals taking what they want instead of showing some respect for the man that just passed.

    4. JSteines 24 Oct 2015
      So days scrolled past. Other corpses streamed through the morgue, pausing on their way to the grave, while the body presumed to be George Bell entered its second month of chilled residence. Then its third.

      What made them keep Bell's body this long? They already determined cause of death. In the previous paragraph it said they even buried those that may not have been identified. So why drag there feet?

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