Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Are you sure?

How many shootings were prevented? Being that non-events dont get recorded you can never know.

macho traits? You can’t be for real.
I can only imagine what you are like if you think Trump is in anyway an alpha

And why not both?

How armored would you choose to be.

when all you have are big hammers every small problem looks like a big nail.

exactly.

Thats what would have been the case for those teens. Eventually theyd have hammered a nail.

Teens are particularly bad for that kind of situation, as 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'.

maybe your tune would change if you were in their shoes.

Social reform is a great idea im sure, but it takes time. And there are kids carrying (what looks like) Mac 10s today.

The kumbaya approach to policing the hood.

Officer David Van Driessen. Maybe it could work.

ones from a previous post

Yep.

Uh huh… got a lot of questions about your algorithm. Twitter is rot. Anyway.

Posts 38 second clip of a longer police interaction, lacking much context.

Also the clip doesn't evidence the police requiring special weapons to subdue the suspects. The cops were not exactly 'militarized' as described in your post. Just handguns and the odd rifle.

This incident doesn't support the argument that police need to be militarized or have armored vehicles at all. These police have standard equipment and the minimum amount of competent training (unlike this guy) (or these guys). You also arguably don't need this many cops for these 3 kids. There are also many social initiatives we can take before kids are ever walking around with guns at a parade in the first place. I think this incident doesn't disprove Kamala's 2020 argument:

“We need to have this conversation and critically examine and understand this is not working,” …“It’s not working. So, this is an important conversation and not just a conversation – cause to your earlier point, can’t just be about talk. It has to be about forcing change.”

“Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that. And we need to demilitarize police departments,” Harris said. “At its core, one of the issues that I think we should all agree on is that it is old thinking. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”

“In many cities in America, over one third of their city budget goes to police. So, we have to have this conversation. What are we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for which we’re putting no resources?”

In the same interview, Harris added she didn’t support “getting rid” of police.

“We have to be practical about this,” she said.

“For too long, the status quo thinking has been, you get more safety by putting more cops on the street,” Harris added. “Well, that’s wrong, because by the way, if you wanna look at upper middle class suburban neighborhoods, they don’t have that patrol car.”

Harris, citing suburban communities, said that true safety comes from well-funded schools, homeownership, thriving small businesses, and access to health services – not increased police presence.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020/index.html