Im not a cop and ive read this thread through.Of course he was offinded,and then you come back with"emotionally hurt"
you sound intelligent and the language you have chosen has purpose.The Purpose was to inflame an argument.So you have
expressed your oppinion of the Police,and know you are continuing to be provocative.Did you also tease other boys on the playground
then run behind the teacher?
I get the same impression. Making inflammatory statements, and then acting as though anyone inflamed by their inflammatory statement is now persecuting them.
It IS like hitting someone...and then when they hit you back, acting like THEY started it.
Cops are HUMAN BEINGS, with feelings, wives, children, political opinions, religious views, etc, just like anyone else. They are NOT all the same, like carbon copies of some stereotype. You will typically be wrong if you assume everyone in a group is the same...for any group.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, anymore than all Christians are Oklahoma City bombers or white supremacists.
Are ALL cops so perfect that they should not be supervised, no, of course not, but as a group, at least the guys I know, DO work pretty hard to do the right thing day in and day out.
And take biased sources with a grain of salt.
If you edit video footage, you can "prove" about anything you want to.
Bits of footage, spliced together as needed, can tell any story you want it to. Some friends who are in the "business" have show me how this is done in numerous fairly easy ways. A mac with "imovie" can take a gang attacking and beating an old man, and edit it to show the old man attacking the gang...a reality tv show can take several disjointed stories, and create a new completely unrelated story...
...and a group harassing someone and finally instigating a retaliatory reaction, can be shown as the retaliatory action started the confrontation, etc....very easily.
People who SEE the edited versions are always tricked into believing what they saw HAPPENED.
Those with an open mind can sometimes be convinced it DIDN'T happen, but, the closed minded ones, even mildly close minded, will NEVER revise their memory of the events...especially if the events support their world view, etc.
That variable is true for all of us. If we get evidence that supports our beliefs...its accepted as fact w/o resistance.
If we get evidence that is in conflict with our world view, our FIRST instinct is to discredit it.
People are like that, good people and bad people....its HUMAN nature.
If you believe that a group is bad, say that Muslims are terrorists, any Muslim that IS shown as a terrorist is immediately considered as proof/validation of that belief.
If you believe a group is good (Like whatever YOU are, etc...), any one in your group that is shown as bad is assumed to be framed, unfairly prosecuted, or, NOT REPRESENTATIVE of your group.
So, the Muslims who are not terrorists see a Muslim arrested for terrorism, and decry that terrorist as an extremist who does not represent THEIR views.
The Christians who see a Christian arrested for terrorism ALSO view that guy as an extremist who doesn't represent THEIR views, and so forth.
The above will NOT differentiate extremists from the OTHER group as not being representative of THAT GROUP though...as there's no conflict with their world view to provide the impetus do do it.
So, if you want to be open minded and fair....and at least be open to OTHER World Views, etc....when you hear/see evidence in conflict, AND in support, of YOUR view, try (TRY) to consider it as if it DIDN'T support or conflict with your beliefs.
SOME people can DO that, most can't...opposing opinions don't fit into their head in a way that allows unbiased evaluation.
Food for thought.
And, "tactical" is WAAAY over used as a term. If you want the light to come on in high, you also want it to be able to go off just as quickly, in case the light reveals a guy about to shoot you.
If you have to SCROLL through options to get the light off...well, you are providing something to aim at while you do it.
If you didn't practice, you will screw up, and be too tied up with details instead of muscle memory. This is a bad thing.
Tactical, if it means the light goes on/off with the switch, either momentary or another click, etc...so there's no scrolling, and comes on in high always...works better than a light that comes on wherever you had it last, but goes to medium and then low or firefly or strobe or beacon or disco duck, etc....before off.
Light itself, as a means to incapacitate an aggressor, works for a second or two on a sober person...so, its not a solution in of itself. On a drunk, etc, it might work longer, as they are more easily disoriented.
Mostly, its way to see them in more detail, see if they are armed and with what, and have a second or two to decide what to do next. If you don't know what to do next, well, hope they don't either.
