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AllyCat

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Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:44 AM Dec 2014

Police plan to protect themselves, not us.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With tensions running high over the killings of blacks by police, departments around the country are changing policies and procedures to curb the use of deadly force, ease public distrust and protect officers from retaliation.

New York City plans to issue stun guns to hundreds more officers. The Milwaukee department is making crisis-intervention training mandatory. And in Akron, Ohio, police have begun working in pairs on all shifts for their own safety.

Police departments are constantly updating training. But some of the more recent measures have been prompted by rising anger toward police. And in some cases, departments are making sure to let the public know about these changes.

http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/police-altering-tactics-after-killings-protests/article_845a541a-a461-53f9-ad59-845847510e04.html

If you read their "plans", it's all about how to protect the cops, not protect the people against the cops.

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Police plan to protect themselves, not us. (Original Post) AllyCat Dec 2014 OP
As a truck driver, I am more than twice as likely to die doing what I do..... A HERETIC I AM Dec 2014 #1

A HERETIC I AM

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1. As a truck driver, I am more than twice as likely to die doing what I do.....
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:50 AM
Dec 2014

as a cop is, doing what he does.

Yet somehow, a policeman has more right to go home alive.

Funny that, eh?

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