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<blockquote data-quote="blueberryyumyumt" data-source="post: 3278919" data-attributes="member: 142110">It was actually a very well-done study.&nbsp; It was not just the classification that shifted, but the total gunshot deaths and injuries that were examined.&nbsp; I suggest reading it firsthand; it is written in common language and not academic speak.Haha.&nbsp; Oh, I used to believe that too.I was in a riot once where 5-6 squad cars of police showed up and decided they didn&#039;t want to be involved.&nbsp; They immediately left without even exiting their vehicles and let security, outnumbered 5-1, handle it.I had a gang member point a gun at me once and threaten me and an entire crowd of 50ish people.&nbsp; The police arrived tardy, giving the gang member time to stash his weapon, and when they didn&#039;t find the gun, the police refused to even ask the gang member to leave the private property they were trespassing on, saying the unarmed security could handle it.When Christopher Dorner wrote his Internet post about his grievances with the LA police department he was a veteran of, he mentioned that the police frequently refused to provide CPR to dying victims while waiting for the paramedics to arrive because they wanted the overtime money a body would create; they would also frequently play a game where they snapped photos of dead victims to exchange with other police officers as a type of joke.I&#039;ve known two police dispatchers (from very different parts of the US) who quit the job on moral grounds because they couldn&#039;t cope with the apathy of police who often openly ignored desperate emergency calls to people the dispatcher had just spoken with, or would tell very crass jokes about the victims over their radios.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blueberryyumyumt, post: 3278919, member: 142110"] It was actually a very well-done study. It was not just the classification that shifted, but the total gunshot deaths and injuries that were examined. I suggest reading it firsthand; it is written in common language and not academic speak. Haha. Oh, I used to believe that too. I was in a riot once where 5-6 squad cars of police showed up and decided they didn't want to be involved. They immediately left without even exiting their vehicles and let security, outnumbered 5-1, handle it. I had a gang member point a gun at me once and threaten me and an entire crowd of 50ish people. The police arrived tardy, giving the gang member time to stash his weapon, and when they didn't find the gun, the police refused to even ask the gang member to leave the private property they were trespassing on, saying the unarmed security could handle it. When Christopher Dorner wrote his Internet post about his grievances with the LA police department he was a veteran of, he mentioned that the police frequently refused to provide CPR to dying victims while waiting for the paramedics to arrive because they wanted the overtime money a body would create; they would also frequently play a game where they snapped photos of dead victims to exchange with other police officers as a type of joke. I've known two police dispatchers (from very different parts of the US) who quit the job on moral grounds because they couldn't cope with the apathy of police who often openly ignored desperate emergency calls to people the dispatcher had just spoken with, or would tell very crass jokes about the victims over their radios. [/QUOTE]

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