You have your values wrong, and this is probably due to lack of training. There are a couple ways to deescalate a situation which don't involve thinking or judging (if you've learned the criteria as a pure yes/no situation, they become a reflex). Also, police should protect the citizen more than themselves, therefore when in doubt, don't shoot and take the risk of being shot. Police will be popular when they count more deaths in their rows than arbitrary executions by police on the street. You can't take the risk of a police/population divide.
> one preventable death is too many
It's not one. See comment from slxh in next thread. I don't set foot in the US for fear of police mistakes, and last time I said that I was upvoted 9 times [1], so it seems US is already massively facing the consequences of their untrained armed force on their ground.
> one preventable death is too many
It's not one. See comment from slxh in next thread. I don't set foot in the US for fear of police mistakes, and last time I said that I was upvoted 9 times [1], so it seems US is already massively facing the consequences of their untrained armed force on their ground.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948835