Why do they always idolise thugs
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Yeah, and they are usually a couple magnitudes safer around random non-blacks than they are around blacks. We've got pretty good history and stats to back that up, and any of us who actually lived around blacks long term have a good feel for the difference between those two situations thanks to the training called "life."
Especially because its only one group of people who sung "Cop Killer" into a top album and created the very situation where cops must live on edge at all times. If the "worst possible outcome" comes for them, then its called getting what you created.
It's not the worst possible outcome for them, it's the worst possible outcome for the cops. The whole point is that the police need to be consummate professionals so they can help people, even if those people are biased against them. Complacency is not an acceptable result because your expectations are skewed one way or another.
I didn't suggest complacency, only even more heightened nerves. You decided to turn it into "if you don't relax around blacks you must be complacent around others" which is foolish binary.
My issue is that the mantra absolutely promotes that foolish binary, though.
Except it doesn't. There is a reasonable level of caution and a necessary one, and both are correct at different times based on available data, experience, and training.
Being at 200% around a group of squirrely white guys is how you get Daniel Shaver. Being at less than 200% around blacks is how this cop almost died.