You are probably also taking it out of context. You have no idea what has happened in that neighborhood in the last year or decade. You have no idea what those perps and officers have experienced. Right?
Both totally irrelevant to whether or not it's appropriate to punch a handcuffed prisoner in the face while they're not resisting.
If a cop is suffering from PTSD or stress to the point where they can't keep themselves from assaulting a handcuffed prisoner, then I am genuinely very sorry for them, but they're still in the wrong job and they still need to be let go.
If the police officer is suffering from PTSD, a mental illness, and it originated at work, the police department as their employer should look into other options first before firing the unfit officer.
Treatment combined with appropriate work should be the first option. Treatment combined with sick leave should obviously be the second.
I'm willing to compromise on how treatment/employment is handled, especially if the problem originated at work, but I assume we're still in agreement that the officer shouldn't be on the street making arrests?
In the course of one thread, there's now a series of sequential arguments from several different commenters progressing from:
"A lot of these videos don't show anything wrong", to
"Well, here's at least two videos that show nothing wrong", to
"Okay, the video looks bad, but the full context probably justifies it", to
"Sure it was wrong, but keep in mind that in a stressful situation everybody makes mistakes".
I'm eager to see how these arguments continue to evolve once comments move away from isolated video clips and into the territory of police departments lying about video footage[0], or 57 other officers resigning in protest over basic disciplinary actions[1].
The union said the officers resigned in support of their peers. Two officers have said they actually resigned because the union refused any legal aid. Further the same officers said that many of those who resigned do not in fact support the suspended officers.
Most of the MA I have attended that had a serious focus on self defense, were focused on deescalation, safety and dealing with the stress of the moment. There is a place for the use of violence to educate someone that it's in their best interest to change their behavior, but prolonged choke holds or grappling aren't helping keep anyone safe in most on the street situations.
You're making this argument in a thread where police have been found brutally beating people who are already restrained and/or not resisting arrest. People without firearms. Or people that are protesting peacefully. Or a 75 year old man who was entirely harmless.
I use php for small scripts that need to read csv and database lookup from the command line. It has built ins for these that work without any environment setup which is great sometimes.
Perl has some easy oneliners too. Depending on where I'm working sometimes I don't want to set up an environment.
i dunno, i wrote PHP scripts for the CLI that run a $100m+ business and execute many millions of times per day. PHP is great for things not web-related, i think many just didnt take the time to learn.
Does PHP have anything approaching CPAN? That is one of the key reasons I still dust off Perl for quick and dirty things from time to time, as well as the compact and accessible regex syntax.
Sqlx looks nice!
I had some ideas about porting pgtyped to rust and utilizing macros to do query type inference at build time, but was worried that such db-connected macros will slow down the build process. Nice to see that it worked out for sqlx.
Personally, supporting Epic's anti-customer activities by purchasing from their store is the bridge too far for me.
Buying exclusivity over finished games, the lack of common customer-friendly features in their store (like reviews), and their past interactions with indy developers (not allowing some non-exclusive new releases on EGS) have all joined into one intolerably heavy load of straw.
I have a different view. I'm not on an epic supported platform, so I don't and can't use their launcher. I wouldn't buy anything directly from them, but I will log in and claim my free copies, in hopes that it cost them money in licensing fees.
I don't know if they make bulk licensing deals, or pay a reduced price per copy claimed, but I hope it's the latter and I'm just a drain on their budgets.
Software companies often struggle to acquire customers, and they are often presented with a decision: Make the product better, or coerce / force / bribe users to accept your product as it exists.
Everyone probably does a bit of both, but Epic is the perfect example of button-mashing option 2.
