There is a malignant cancer that is metastasizing through our legal system that threatens to destroy law enforcement as a social construct capable of protecting law-abiding citizens from the ravages of criminal predation.
This cancer kills law enforcement by creating standards for police officers that are impossible to maintain in any real-world violent confrontation, standards which are often never actually taught to the officers involved, and standards for which violation results in decades in prison for the officers snared in this trap.
This cancer is, of course, just another of the many fronts in the war of America’s enemies to devolve our first-world society into a third-world hellscape that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” to quote Thomas Hobbes. And like the others, it must be recognized and obliterated.
My good friend Von Kliem, who has extensive experience in both law enforcement and as an attorney, who spends many months a year consulting on and testifying as an expert witness for police use-of-force cases at trial, and so observes this metastasizing cancer in real-time, is just about to release yet another great piece of analysis for the Force Science Institute on how law enforcement is being inexorably gutted through our legal system.
Even better, he was kind enough to send me an advanced copy of the final draft—so I’m going to shar Von’s take on all this with all of you in @TheBrancaShow community even before the worst of the world gets to see it.