I still don't follow the logic. A policeman kills someone due to gross negligence (or even on purpose). How does that justify looting and destroying unrelated businesses?
They're criminal gangs and treating the police as the same. When you have a lawless society like that you join a gang for protection. The protection isn't in the form of bodies guards but basically if you do anything to one of theirs then their gang will retaliate.
The rules to this don't care about things like self defence. If one of your gang is hurt or killed then that's it, you retaliate, doesn't matter the circumstances.
People have it completely wrong on policing in these case. You can't police these people like you can with normal civilians.
Ironically you actually need to be brutal. You would for example wipe their entire gang out when they retaliate. Modern society isn't equipped for handling barbarians that revert back to the kind of tribal mentality it will not have had to deal with in living memory.
That gets back to the idea of using lethal force in response to riots and looting. That was the routine response decades again. Civilization seems to have unlearned that lesson.
Right now, rioters and looters have no skin in the game. They don't face the risk of getting shot. They don't face the risk of getting arrested and prosecuted. Given that, why not riot and loot as much as you can?
They've taken this weakness (don't shoot rioters and looters), and are exploiting it to the maximum with organized rioting and looting.
I do think a substantial part of the problem is in the public conscious and what they will or wont allow the police to do.
They'll allow the police to act against their interests and won't allow them to act in their interests.
The average member of the public isn't raised in an environment like mine where it's not all lollipops and care bears. Most of them are raised on Hollywood which gives unrealistic expectations.
The media is to blame. Imagine if the riots and looting were national headline news every time it happened? There would be an outcry for it to stop, and police would be given the authority to do what's necessary. Imagine if the media gave as much negative attention to rioting and looting as they gave negative attention to Trump?
I still don't follow the logic. A policeman kills someone due to gross negligence (or even on purpose). How does that justify looting and destroying unrelated businesses?
It doesn't, unless you use the Dindu Method of Rationalization™
They're criminal gangs and treating the police as the same. When you have a lawless society like that you join a gang for protection. The protection isn't in the form of bodies guards but basically if you do anything to one of theirs then their gang will retaliate.
The rules to this don't care about things like self defence. If one of your gang is hurt or killed then that's it, you retaliate, doesn't matter the circumstances.
People have it completely wrong on policing in these case. You can't police these people like you can with normal civilians.
Ironically you actually need to be brutal. You would for example wipe their entire gang out when they retaliate. Modern society isn't equipped for handling barbarians that revert back to the kind of tribal mentality it will not have had to deal with in living memory.
That gets back to the idea of using lethal force in response to riots and looting. That was the routine response decades again. Civilization seems to have unlearned that lesson.
Right now, rioters and looters have no skin in the game. They don't face the risk of getting shot. They don't face the risk of getting arrested and prosecuted. Given that, why not riot and loot as much as you can?
They've taken this weakness (don't shoot rioters and looters), and are exploiting it to the maximum with organized rioting and looting.
I do think a substantial part of the problem is in the public conscious and what they will or wont allow the police to do.
They'll allow the police to act against their interests and won't allow them to act in their interests.
The average member of the public isn't raised in an environment like mine where it's not all lollipops and care bears. Most of them are raised on Hollywood which gives unrealistic expectations.
The media is to blame. Imagine if the riots and looting were national headline news every time it happened? There would be an outcry for it to stop, and police would be given the authority to do what's necessary. Imagine if the media gave as much negative attention to rioting and looting as they gave negative attention to Trump?