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Law Enforcement
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One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. The cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.
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― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
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The concept and terminology of "mugging" as opposed to, say, "robbery" was created as part of the panic, even though there was no evidence that this ill-defined activity was increasing. This is similar to the creation of the term "carjacking" in Detroit in the early 1990s.
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― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
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