Director of Los Angeles Police Protective League warns LA Police Commission their rules to reduce the number of shootings by police "will get officers killed, plain and simple."
BarkGrowlBite | April 17, 2016
The LA Police Commission, alarmed by the number of people shot by cops, adopted some rules that require officers to hesitate before resorting to the use of deadly force.
Jamie McBride, a director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, strongly objected to those rules before the commission last month. Here is some of what he told the commission:
"Every second counts, and hesitation will kill you."
"[The rules] will get officers killed, plain and simple."
"Make no mistake, if an officer is killed as a result .... [his] blood will be on your hands."
McBride’s comments fell on deaf ears. Chief Charlie Beck, protecting his job, agreed to implement the proposed rules.
As for the number of young blacks getting shot by the police, South Los Angeles can’t be much different from Chicago where a concerned black mother said, “Half the time, these babies [black teens] probably do have guns, so it's like, ‘[I'm going to] shoot first before I get killed.’”
What the commissioners apparently do not realize, and what Chief Beck chose to ignore, is that among life’s choices, sometimes it’s kill or be killed.
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