You can’t order police officers to die for your politics

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You can’t order police officers to die for your politics

Jazz Shaw Posted at 4:31 pm on June 17, 2020

Now that the Senate GOP has begun the process of rolling out their own version of a “police reform” bill, predictable partisan fights are already breaking out. One of the major bones of contention is the idea that the bill would “discourage” the use of chokeholds by the cops during confrontations with non-compliant, disruptive or violent suspects. As with some other provisions, this doesn’t go far enough for the liberals and Democrats who are aiming to either defund or abolish the police, but will settle for as much as they can get in the meantime. They want the maneuver to be forbidden entirely with punishment meted out to any cops who violate the prohibition. (Washington Post)

    The Senate Republican proposal, expected to be endorsed by a vast majority of the GOP conference, veers away from mandating certain policing practices from the federal level and does not include an explicit ban on chokeholds or certain no-knock warrants — all facets of the Democratic plan.

    Instead, it encourages the thousands of local police and law enforcement agencies to curtail those practices by withholding federal funding to departments that allow the tactics or do not submit reports related to them.

    The legislation also requires local law enforcement agencies to report all officer-involved deaths to the FBI — an effort pushed by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is spearheading the GOP bill, since 2015 — and it encourages broader use of body-worn cameras for officers.

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The premise of the article is correct, we can't expect to be able to order police to commit suicide.  This applies in other ways, too.  If the police were to be ordered to go door to door confiscating firearms, most would refuse to do it, not necessarily because it's unconstitutional, but because they're liable to get shot (or be forced to kill) trying to do it.

Sometimes people forget exactly why the redcoats were coming back in Paul Revere's day.  They wanted to confiscate the guns of Colonials in Lexington and Concord.