Interesting. None of our parents in our middle to upper class neighborhoods had any reason to think anyone would have interaction with the police. I cannot think of a single person I knew that had interaction with the police except for a family a block away that parents said that we were not allowed to go near .Our teens knew that any car infractions would mean no more driving as insurance would become unaffordable.
I do not understand why parents would think their children would have police interactions. I never talked to my children about the police, It would never cross my mind that there would be a reason my children would have police interaction.
My son is 35 and back when he was a teen, the police had a neighborhood station and the kids would be working in the alley on their vehicles. They got to know the neighbor hood officers.
In the country where I lived, we had a constable. He knew eveyone and handled things appropriately. May or may not talk to your parents.
I am happy to see that the professionals, the LE , are looking at ways to keep everyone alive.An officer who kills someone usually ends up with big issues. It benefits no one
Are you seriously saying those who were raised in a middle to upper class family/neighborhood were somehow immune to breaking the law? This site right here shows that is far from the truth as it can get if that is what you are implying. In fact there are countless cases from DUIs resulting in fatalities of innocent people, rapes, using drugs, selling drugs, and even horrific murders committed by those in the neighborhoods you have cited.
I lived in a upper middle class neighborhood growing up but what does that have to do with anything or following the law or parents giving good advice to their children?
I don't think any parent who has this conversation with their children expects the police is going to stop them but like every teaching that parents do it is to prepare them should the situation ever arise. Are you saying because millions of parents have told their children to be respectful to police officers should they be stopped the children are criminals and that is the only reason parents have this conversation? Gah, how ridiculous if that is what you are saying.
I have had only one traffic warning ticket in my entire 69 years of life and that was when I was an adult in the 80s when I went through a yellow caution light. You betcha I was nice to the officer. There was no need not to be because he was very respectful to me. In fact I have no criminal record whatsoever of any kind because I have always abided by the rule of law and so do our children. When our daughter was caught speeding she learned from that one mistake and didn't repeat it. I believe she was given only a warning because she showed the police officer the respected he was entitled to be given. He was very respectful to her and respect is a two way street always or it sure as heck should be.
My parents still instilled in me to always be respectful to those in authority and to everyone in general. My parents certainly didn't think I would be interacting with the police but they were there to prepare me just in case it happened which it never did when I was growing up. No one is immune to being pulled over by the police and it can even happen in a roadblock without the person doing anything wrong. When we did the same with our five children we certainly didn't do so because we thought they would be interacting in any manner with a police officer for breaking the law. However teens are as human as anyone else and can make mistakes just like anyone can.
It is more apt to happen if they have never been taught anything nor given any guidance by their parents. The attitude of 'the rules don't matter or apply to me and to hell with what a cop says' ' is a very bad dangerous attitude to follow. Unfortunately many parents do have this same nasty attitude and its passed on to their children just like this woman who was warping the mind of her young boy convincing him violence against a police officer is the answer rather than being compliant. Or better yet she should have been instilling in him to abide by the law at all times and keep his nose clean.
I have no clue why you seem to think middle to upper class children don't/didn't ever break the law therefore the parents never had to talk to with them about being respectful to those in authority in case they are stopped. In fact many children from middle or upper class families are very much lawbreakers. We have seen many who thought the law didn't apply to them creating an attitude of entitlement. There have also been cases where their influential father/mother bought his or her kid's way out of trouble, but it certainly didn't mean the children were law abiders just because of where they may have lived.
Teens and young adults are one of the main groups that do have interactions with police officers nowadays. Many teens and young adults are caught speeding or texting, drinking, under the influence of drugs or causing deaths for not only themselves, their passengers, but killing and maiming innocent others. More and more of them are defiant against our police officers instead of simply complying to simple commands. That hostile behavior is learned and taught by the ones they see with the same bad attitude.
I don't think "an officer who kills someone usually ends up with big issues" is accurate and is way overblown. Most officers do their jobs diligently/honorably, and yes, they have a constitutional right to defend themselves just like every law abiding citizen here does. Usually when someone is shot and killed by a cop is because they refused to cooperate,or refused to comply to society's rules or they attacked/assaulted the officer/s, had a firearm or another weapon they wouldn't putdown or were in a hostage situation or in a stand off with police.
Very few cases when a police officers shoots someone it is unjustified. So I respectfully disagree. In fact I think out of the 800K police officers we have 99%+ do a fantastic job day in and day out to keep our citizens and communities safe no matter the grave dangers they are facing. Even though it is the only profession on our soil where they are assaulted/attacked almost 50K times every year it shows most all of our police officers show great restraint.
We have seen them be spit on, feces and urine thrown on them, rocks and bricks thrown at them, lit Molotov cocktails thrown at them, and they still defend the ones who want nothing more than to cause them great harm or worse. The murder rate for our officers now is way above what it was this same time last year yet every day they go out once again to serve and protect us all. The small teeny tiny minority of bad police officers in our nation never will erase all the countless thousands who are courageous and run toward danger while others run away.
The vast majority of officers do it right and aren't the problem but what is changing more and more is those who interact with the officers would rather be combative confrontational jerks rather than resolving the problem in a peaceful manner.
IMO
