I admit that cops are using them a little too liberally. But in this case I'm not real sure. The guy had a crude weapon and was going bat shit. Police need to recognize when a situation can be resolved peacefully.
Making the suspect feel as though he is in the right and making sure he doesn't feel threatened can be a few psychological tricks to diffuse a situation.
Many of these scenes you can see the cops acting out of disdain because their authority isn't being respected. Which is not always paramount. Sometimes its best to diffuse a situation with tact and psychology.
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Yes. I was. I'm having this debate on iidb (another board) as well and I got you confused with someone else I believe.
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And frig, even if they couldn't talk to one another due to a language barrier, they could have made hand signals or they could have drew out some friggin picutres..... and pictures are universal, even if you can't read.... if you can make basic pictures, you can talk to anybody.
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Sometimes cops are more worried about showing you who's boss than ending a situation without gunfire or electricity. I almost got the sense that they were showing off for the security guards. Whom did nothing to help the situation.
Its kinda unfair to the police in the respect that the guy had been treated in such a f*cked manner for hours before the cops got there. A smart person would have, at some point during this mans 10 hour ordeal, accomplished the task of finding out what language he was speaking. Thats easy. Once they know this they could, in seconds, look up some basic terms on an online polish to English dictionary.
Check this out, I'm smarter than an airport full of Canadians.
Free Polish-English-Polish Translator and online Polish Dictionary.
Powitaninia jak są wy : means "Hello, how are you"?
Robi nie taser mnie brat :means "Dont tase me bro"
I worked with people, many of them very angry, for over ten years as a manager in a supermarket. I blame much of this on the authorities that couldn't find a god damn way to communicate with another human being over the course of ten hours.
How can they be so stupid? A pothead like me coulda fixed that sh*t.