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Old 12-10-2013, 09:19 PM   #29
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Re: Responding to being punched in the face.

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Michael Hackett wrote: View Post
Here in the United States we use the "reasonable officer" standard for this part of the analysis. Would a reasonable officer in the same circumstances, and with the same training have used this force?
Trouble with this standard is that it's impossible to apply. In practice, it turns into "Would a super-self-aware and completely balanced officer with thorough knowledge of the situation available after the fact but not at the time (because we can't forget, after the fact, what we now know) and with foreknowledge of the consequences of actions they take and plenty of time to think through every possible course of action and potential outcome, and with full awareness of the media feeding frenzy that would make any sort of post-hoc rationality impossible, act in this manner?"

43 bullets in an unarmed man, beating a guy long after he's down--these trigger my "bad cop" response. This? Ground the girl until she's 21 and move on.

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