TAMIR RICE, 12 -- KILLED BY CLEVELAND POLICE

[Carsman]

I don't think they are receiving sufficient training and add to that I think they are fearful as well. That alone should keep them off the streets but it doesn't. It's said that when they fear for their safety they should shoot to kill and many do. There are other jurisdictions where cops shoot to wound in order to take control of the situation but they are few and far between.

It hardly seems like there was a nano second between the time LE showed up and shots were fired, that isn't even enough time to access the situation. I question their level of fear given they drove right up on him.

Aeons ago, it was the '"exception" rather then the rule for a perp to ever consider "hitting a cop", more or less then considering "shooting" a cop! Today, not so much! Yes, they are fearful, as cops are forced to be due to the brutality of many perps today.

Today, the mind-set of many perps (many of them black) will shoot a cop without a giving it a second thought! Knowing this fact, cops when approaching a perp, are cautious, as they should be, and many times they only have a split second to make life and death decisions. Cops do not have an easy job, always being under the "media's" watchful camera, for the "media" just waiting to pounce on any error they may make, and putting it out to the world, puts cops under undue pressure.
Cops being human, just want to go home after work, same as any other workers want.