Cops Should 'Take a Deep Breath'

mindful webworker - misses Officer Friendly

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Tue 2015 Feb 24, 7:46am

NY post via WZ: "Cops should 'take a deep breath' - and close their eyes - when dealing with angry people, according to the NYPD's new 'retraining' program."

http://weaselzippers.us/
215156-de-blasios-smart-policing-program-
advising-nypd-officers-to-take-a-deep-breath-
and-close-their-eyes-when-
dealing-with-angry-people/

(For some reason bit.ly won't let me shorten that one.)

Close their eyes. Right. That wouldn't have improved Officer Wilson's aim one bit.

I have some similar suggestions. Carry fresh flowers to offer to angry people. Give them backrubs. Lie down and ask them to put a bullet through your head if it would make them happier. We wouldn't want officers to seem threatening in any way, like they were the armed arm of the Law or anything.

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