Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "How to Reform the Police (LegalEagle’s Law Review)" video.

  1. Dear Legal Eagle, Thank you for your excellent videocasts on all aspects of the law. You are an inspiration to young people looking for a career that makes a difference. One thing I would like to ask, and before I do I should say I'm watching this from the other side of the world in a society with a wall to wall police presence. Secondly, shouldn't you wait for an investigation on these alleged police actions that resulted in the death of people being arrested? Don't the cops get to have their say? What I have heard is the first thing to do before thinking about police reform is to make every 5th day on duty a training day. Period. You work four days and on day five you go through training. It would make officers aware of new techniques and give them time to practice a lot of the tricky situations that they are often in. Lastly, it should not be forgotten how many police officers in America are killed on duty and also how many get shot in the face arresting petty dealers. Can any of us imagine going to work, having a bad day and getting shot in the face, losing our job, having to spend the rest of our lives nursing wounds that will never heal and living on a small compensation? Every cop I have ever met was divorced. Ask a cop about his job. Do you know they only deal with the people at the end of the spectrum; people that don't wash, that don't obey an officer of the law and outright cop killers? They have to work a new shift every week to avoid getting on the take; that means you don't sleep on one of the shifts, afternoons, for example. Also, most cops are shot in the sunny afternoons when things are nice outside and they have their guard down. We have to realize the cops in America have very little training, and then go out and try to arrest someone who breaks away while they are handcuffing him and takes their taser and fires back at them while he's running. A taser knocks you out for 5 seconds; count 'em: one thousand one… Plenty of time for the wrongdoer to come back and kick your head in, take your gun and shoot you in the groin. Cops are trained to gun down anyone that takes their taser, because it's literally the bad guy or them. And don't forget, we're asking people with their lives in danger to operate like they have law degrees, who are bullet proof and have wonderful personalities and Don't get nervous when the person they're arresting could break them in two. In a perfect world only people with kind hearts and willing to turn the other cheek would be the police communities hire to deal with people who only want to break the law.
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