1) Give the individual officer benefit of the doubt. They personally are influenced by their training and the amount of stress on their job.
-Brings another debate if cops should really be trained to shoot to kill?
American (and most other places) train their cops to "shoot to stop the threat", not "shoot to kill"...though it is often the same thing in practice. "shooting to wound" is Hollywood nonsense. Guns should only be used in life threatening situations, shooting a leg is not going to stop a determined human with a weapon from using that weapon.
2) Destroy small municipalities that depend on fines for revenue. Gives bad imagine to police officers.
-Brings another debate of restructuring fine systems. The current system obviously hurts poor and minorities far greater than most whites and higher income persons.
yes, that would be a huge help to our nations poor who often get caught in a loop of fines and late fees. Our courts should not act like shady credit agencies.
