Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.
Yes, we all wish cops would be paragons of virtue and self-sacrifice we learned about from comic books.
Practically speaking? Don’t let the Perfect be the enemy of the Good.
If you do find this mythical Perfect Person, you go ahead and encourage them to be a cop if they want to be one; you don’t tell them that they’re a bastard.
Further, what have you done lately to try to protect those Perfect People and keep them cops? Do you advocate for police unions and legal funds to protect them from abuse from their chains of command?
You’re right. Sounds like we should get rid of them all. I can support that. Genuinely can’t think of a single reason to keep them around.
“If we can’t have a perfect meal, we should not eat.”
Because prayer is an ineffective strategy to stop school shootings and all manner of other nasty behavior some humans get up to.
About as effective as cops.
Nah.
Yeah tbh I’d rather starve than eat something full of broken glass.
Lemme know when cops become an effective strategy to stop school shootings, or any other nasty behaviors lol.
You’re not understanding the metaphor. We’re all subject to law enforcement. You can either move to improve the “meal” or just accept whatever you get.
You asked for a single reason. They do stop some.
You know, one thing I never understood about fantasy settings where stuff is around for “thousands of years”, is that in reality, something that has been around for less than 200 years can be considered eternal by someone unwilling to think about it.
Nope; the oldest written record of law enforcement is around 4,000 years old.
Sorry to hear you aren’t particularly well-educated on the topic. Maybe don’t engage in conversations about things you don’t know much about? That’s what I try to do, and it works pretty well. But you probably don’t care about accuracy about such matters.
I hope I never speak with such misplaced authority about issues you have a degree in.
I wouldn’t talk about misplaced authority if I was you. Maybe stick to crayons.
So you think those were just suggestions? Even the jurisprudence theory that’s gained recent steam still heavily implies there were laws, and again, laws are generally not just polite suggestions.
What name(s) did I call you?
Why not?
I’m not an expert on crayons. Are you?