In America

One of the more interesting things I’ve noticed in the latest white cop shoots black guy story is that apparently, the people who most vociferously defend the cop seem to have absolutely no confidence in a cop’s competence. The cop’s incapable of chasing a 50 year-old man down. He’s incapable of getting help from other cops to chase him down. He’s incapable of quickly figuring out well, eventually this guy will want o come back and collect his car, or the fact that losing one’s car for a broken taillight is an incredibly harsh punishment. No, he is simply capable of lazily pulling out his gun and shooting not once, but eight times. Interesting. - XMASTIME

Last night I caught Jeff Ross' roast at a prison in Texas. Read his totally depressing look into the American prison system HERE. While the roast was an incredible idea that was eye-opening about the system and yet pretty much ruined by Comedy Central having commercial very 90 seconds, not allowing any momentum to be built, one thing mentioned that casually got tossed aside is that in this maximum-security prison in of all places TEXAS, the guards, get this, don't have guns. None. The guard Ross asked this about brushed it off oh, we know how to handle these guys. And this guard was a small woman. Surrounded by hard-core criminal such as murderers (and, depressingly, NON hard-core criminals who are in prison for like smelling cannabis or some shit.)

So, maximum-security prison with murderers, we trust the people in charge can handle things without guns. But any situation on the street, such as a scared teen running away, we're perfectly comfortable with the idea that a cop's first and only solution is to whip out a gun and start spraying bullets.

Of course. Makes total sense.