Police’s common sense trouble: Failing to instantly obey doesn't have to lead to death

How minor offense situations turn deadly

Police’s common sense trouble: Failing to instantly obey doesn't have to lead to death Nypd-e1399994842218-620x412

Police’s common sense trouble: Failing to instantly obey doesn't have to lead to death Nypd-e1399994842218-620x412

For the second time in a week, a video of police officers subduing a citizen with an illegal chokehold has gone viral. And the usual controversy over police brutality has erupted as well, with many people being appalled by authorities run amok while others think the victims had it coming. Both incidents happened in New York, which has a long and checkered history with police brutality. And more recent issues with racial profiling certainly add to the dismay of observers who see this pattern being repeated over and over again.

But the fact that some cops are using an illegal procedure to subdue a suspect is hardly unique in American life. It’s happened for a very long time in this country. And far too often police are not held accountable for breaking the law — which often leads to dire consequences such as the Rodney King riots, which, like this week’s incidents, were videotaped, as more and more of these events are likely to be in our smartphone world.

The New York police commissioner has promised to investigate, as they usually do, and indicated that New York will consider the greater use of tasers in order that the police not be tempted to use illegal and brutal methods to force citizens to comply with their orders. But tasers will not solve that problem, it will simply legalize the use of pain compliance by allowing police to administer electro-shock rather than take a person down to the ground with a chokehold. Just because tasers don’t leave marks doesn’t mean they are not brutal and violent.

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/25/polices_common_sense_trouble_how_minor_offense_situations_turn_deadly/
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Police’s common sense trouble: Failing to instantly obey doesn't have to lead to death

Police’s common sense trouble: Failing to instantly obey doesn't have to lead to death

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