Violent, Lethal, Poorly Trained, and Poorly Supervised

The New York Times took a look at fatal police stops, and found that time and time again, the police engaged in activity that put themselves in danger, which then justified the use of deadly force.

Basically, people who are not ready to be cops do stupid sh%$, and as a result, someone dies, generally not the cops.

And these people remain police despite their incompetence:

An expired registration. A stolen bottle of vodka. A candy wrapper tossed out the window. A warrant for drug charges.

A New York Times visual investigation reviewed footage from 120 vehicle stops over the last five years in which police officers killed motorists who were not brandishing a gun or knife or being pursued for violent crimes.

We found a striking pattern. In dozens of incidents, footage shows, officers made tactical mistakes that put themselves in positions of danger — walking into the path of a car, reaching into a window, jumping onto a moving vehicle — then used lethal force to defend against that danger.

Criminologists call this “officer-created jeopardy.” But it often goes unexamined in deadly-force cases. 

"Often goes unexamined?"  More like never.

Folks who do this have likely done this many times before they finally kill someone, and yet they remain on the force.

Cops who behave recklessly and incompetently should be fired, and they almost never are.