Even as Violent Crime Falls, Killing of Officers Rises

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6. Well, I am FUCKING talking about the connection to people that some have.

If one knows the other person, knows something about them, maybe that they have family, or that they at least have spoken with you respectfully, it is MUCH harder to shoot them. And the situations which involve shooting become less frequent.

We spend millions in war demonizing our enemies, disrespecting them, their religion, their culture, de-personalizing them. Makes it much easier to put a round, or more, in them.

The police departments do that on a regular basis simply by the way they operate. They set themselves apart, treat blacks far more unjustly than whites, are often not involved in community activities (except where someone pays them to be security whether it is really needed or not), creating a culture where virtually EVERYONE outside the department is a potential shooter or other threat.

And then they complain that people act like they do when people disrepect them.