Criminal
Aug. 16, 2000
Let's Respect Police Descretion When Lives Are in Danger
By Peter W. Olson. Should the police who serve and protect us be human or robot? Ever since the Rodney King incident, media accounts of forceful arrests imply we should want robots. However severe the danger, threat or provocation police confront, the media condemns them for any human reaction to it. There does not seem to be any wish to distinguish unprovoked, excessive force from extremely provoked, normal human responses. Few of us could take the stressful abuse police take.
By Peter W. Olson
Should the police who serve and protect us be human or robot? Ever since the Rodney King incident, media accounts of forceful arrests imply we should want robots. However severe the danger, threat or provocation police confront, the media condemns them for any human reaction to it. There does ...
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