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zarfle2 t1_jal4lwh wrote

Reply to comment by Lemesplain in Purple Heart awarded to deputy in fatal shooting during middle school pickup prompts backlash by SLaSZT

Is there an award for "Impressive de-escalation" or "Showing basic humanity" or "Excellence in the field of NOT killing an unarmed person".

Now those are awards that I could get behind.

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ShadowDragon8685 t1_jaliu87 wrote

> Is there an award for "Impressive de-escalation" or "Showing basic humanity" or "Excellence in the field of NOT killing an unarmed person".

Those awards should be a badge, on your chest, that you get to keep wearing.

Well, maybe "Impressive de-escalation" should be worth something special. Talking someone with a weapon out of suicide-by-cop or out of homicide or something, that should get an award. Maybe authorization to wear a bowler hat on duty, or a shining silver neck-tie-with-sunglasses-shaped medal.

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repeat4EMPHASIS t1_jalr2x7 wrote

>Talking someone with a weapon out of suicide-by-cop or out of homicide or something, that should get an award.

The award for that is a pink slip

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2MuchRGB t1_jam36ee wrote

Shooting someone innocent: paid holidays. Not shooting someone innocent: get fired.

We are so proud of you America.

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Ray_Pingeau t1_jamzbc9 wrote

You shouldn’t get an award for doing your job properly unless participation awards are suddenly a good thing

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Jampine t1_jalhkh3 wrote

They had to scrap the scheme, as over a decade they where unable to hand out a single award.

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jamesnollie88 t1_jaltdtc wrote

If bad cops get promoted then winning one of those awards would probably be career suicide if they existed.

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