I suspect that in real life most interactions with the police in the US are actually more like UK TV than US TV.
I read somewhere that that the majority of US police officers never discharge a weapon in the course of their career except on a firing range. Don't know if it was true then or still is now though.
@ninalanyon The majority of police encounters in the U.S. probably don’t end with someone getting shot. But on television, you’d never know that.
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@bijouxbroussard Television is only a representation though, and sadly I'd imagine the US gets more attention than it deserves, but that comes with a certain territory if a country projects its media upon other cultures. I see in Canada, any mention of police brutality gets attention, and I'd wonder the rates of such incidences? Something that holds my attention, there's a story here in Toronto, of a young man, clearly distressed who brandished nothing, pretending he did, and police shot him. The officer tried pleading not guilty, saying the young man provoked the police to commit suicide for him.
The courts thankfully rejected that and found the officer negligent.
Negligent? Didn't they charge him with at least manslaughter? Or whatever it's called in Canada.
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@ninalanyon Criminal negligence is often the better charge, as it accounts for the actual events. I understand your position, and I should follow up in how he was found in proceedings, sometimes I hear of things that bug the shit out of me, and never find out the entire outcome. In Canada, the terms, if you are looking for accountability/retribution jail times would be about the same for manslaughter. That the terms mean really only what they mean. The rest would be left for a judge to be the judiciary in time.
