Scootaloo (17,140 posts)
24. My understanding, it's conflicting training
A combat vet's training is that everyone around him not in his uniform is a potential threat. Active threats need to be put down with immediate lethal force. Which in a battlefield, makes sense, sure.
You're knowledge of what a combat vet thinks and feels wouldn't fill half a thimble. You don't even want us to use lethal force on an enemy combatant on the battlefield...so stop...just stop...you're making yourself look terribly stupid...even by DU standrds.
Police Departments like to use former military members because we're physically fit, we already know how to handle and accurately shoot weapons, a lot of us already know how to keep our cool in hostile and dangerous situations and we are
disciplined.If anything more of us died in Iraq and Afghanistan than needed to because we showed too much discipline and adhearance to rules of engagement that severyly tied our hands when it came to engagements.
Got that hotshot? We're not the loose cannons shooting anything that moves that you like to believe we are because that's what the Stolen Valor pukes at DU make us out to be
American streets are not battlefields,
Have you seen Baltimore in the last 24 hours?
What about what's left of Ferguson?
A law enforcement officer's job isn't to see the people around him as threats, it's to see them as his charges, people to protect.
First off law enforcement is just that...enforcement of the law. It's not the common misconception that the police are there to protect each and every individual citizen.
But then how do you answer the problem of community organizers and so called black "leaders" telling the communites that every cop they see is the enemy?
The best response to threats for law enforcement is de-escalation of the situation.
Tell that to the families of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. Or to the families of the 15 Baltimore PD officers in the hospital right now.
It's always easy for idiots like you to "fix" the situation when you've never BEEN in the situation these officers face.
Somewhere in our cultural trajectory, we managed to confuse constables and combatants. And it's nothing against combat vets as people. And I have no doubt, many combat vets could serve as cops quite ably. However, the problem is that the line between soldiers and police is already hugely muddled, at the great expense of the safety of Americans.
Too bad you and your ilk will never be honest enough to admit where the problems arose.
Maybe we ought to take a hiatus on the "afghanistan-to-Baltimore" career track? let our veterans find some gainful employment that DOESN'T involve being armed and indoctrinated with seige mentality bullshit?
Maybe you should take a hiatus from trying to think for awhile. You seem to be failing at it miserably.
Maybe pry our cops out of their armored vehicles and combat fatigues? You know, re-establish the line between the two?
Who do you think is selling them all that gear and vehicles?
Then we can look into vets serving as police. It's nothing personal, and no, it's not fair, but we have a real problem, and this is honestly part of the fuel of that problem.
You're doing a piss poor job of disguising your hatred of the military behind the current situation with the Baltimore PD...who have actually shown a great deal of restraint with the rioters that have been given permission by their mayor to loot and destroy the city the cops are trying to defend.
