De-escalation, is a farcical concept, created by people who have never been in, nor will they ever be in, a dynamic situation like street officers face. Many incidents last mere seconds. A hesitation to act can be fatal.
The belief by the uninformed that any situation can be de-escalated will lead to injury or death to police officers and/or innocent people.
Police officers have been using de-escalation tactics forever, in those incidents where it is possible to do so. It’s time to bring sanity back to the City of Seattle, (a tall order).
Why in the world do politicians and police administrators take advice from people who have no experience or training in that area.
Instead of the usual, “you should go on a ride-along”, I propose that city leaders, police administrators, (including civilian over-seers) and journalists do go. But when a dangerous and dynamic situation arises, the hosting officer look to them and say, “You handle it.”
The obvious answer would be, “I’m not trained to do that!”
Exactly.
The flogging will continue until morale improves.
To the man who has walked me through murder scenes and walked me through death scenes and explained why the 2nd did appear to be murder (like I thought it was and was wrong).You took a kid under you wing and I’m seeing the light getting bigger at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you for this post. You speak for those of us that can’t because we have serious fear of punishment if we do speak and there isn’t anyone that will stand up for us, unless we hire our own attorneys.
Thank you for being open enough to work with a kid in the past, sharing your sarcasm and dark humor and making me laugh at times.