12-08-2017, 02:16 PM
(12-08-2017, 02:09 PM)Gregory Wrote: Apparently they are taught that a policeman/colleagues life is more valuable than the suspect. Now, to a layman this seems pretty logical, but if you extrapolate that to their training – it suggests that if they ever feel like their safety is under threat at any point then they are within their rights to take someone's life. It's actually quite radge that there is a hierarchy of life like that in their training. Essentially legalised murder.
Radiolab had an excellent podcast in this subject last week, called Mr. Graham and The Reasonable Man.
Goes into detail about a case were a diabetic was arrested and assaulted for no good reason and how this case led to a change in the law. Essentially by trying to make the law more objective to try and support victims of police assault it had the unintended consequence of providing police more support.