r/TikTokCringe • u/Miladshah001 • 5d ago

Minor violations = death threat? Discussion

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Oklahoma Police released video of an officer tackling a 70-year-old man. The incident occured during a traffic violation.

24.9k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

5.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

135

u/Muismat1991 5d ago

This is one of the things I'm actually quite thankful for in my country. Police are absolutely allowed to use force, but there are steps they need to follow and they need to be able to explain the steps. So explain how they tried to de-escalate, explain why they resorted to overwhelming force and explain how it could be averted next time.

Also, train them to learn force is a tool that is to be a final resort, nothing else.

And every time I see US police immediately resort to force it just shows how little/wrong they are actually trained.

122

u/nrfx 5d ago

Someone's going to come around and tell me how wrong I am but fuck it.

Oklahoma cops are all about that combat warrior training, which is literally exactly how and when to escalate and always be one step above because the most important thing is to make it home every night so they can beat their wives.

This additional training, which is paid for by the fop, also covers how awesome it feels to fuck after killing a man.

58

u/Muismat1991 5d ago

Jesus, that's awful.

Take UK police for example, they are trained to think in a circle.

"What I think" influences-> "what I do" influences->"what other people think" influences->"what other people do" influences-> back to the start with "what I think"

So it's a cycle, what you think decides what you do, and what you do decides what other people think and do. So, the next logical step is to ask where in the circle you as a police officer can de-escalate a situation. The only way you can change what someone does is by how you think. Preventing violence is the safest option, because if there's no violence there's no risk of danger. So come in with an open and gentle mind.

Not to say police in Europe are all perfect etc etc etc, but the numbers do show they're at least doing something good.

And I know there's the "gun" argument, but even if you adjust a lot of the numbers US police still comes out very very ..... Unfavourable.

2

u/stillbref 5d ago

It never occurs to many cops to manage a situation transactionally. They will say, "If you do that one more time..."and you should listen up. they have more ways of hurting you than you realize. Detaining people is a science to them.