• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    From the article:

    If the officers are not uniformed or armed, it defeats the goal of helping community members overcome fear of interacting with officers as they are, Mattson said.

    I get the logic, but it seems like there would be a better way to go about this. My primary concern would be if we’re doing this event and some kind of loud noise happens (like a gunshot/acorn). That seems like a recipe for disaster.

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      1 month ago

      Seriously. Let’s give a bunch of armed men with trained PTSD (pre-traumatic stress disorder) the job of chasing people in the dark.