Originally posted by 420
Just recently, haven't the idiotic police just shot a number of endangered bengali tigers? Shot to death I mean, whereas a tranquilizer would have had the same effect and they could have securely returned the animals to their place. But nooooo, let's just shoot and kill them, right? Well, at least that's what their mind state is.
They had no choice but to shoot the animals, they weren't caged and literally running around the area. How could they possibly take the chance in using tranquilisers against animals that could kill you within 5seconds. Not to mention it was pitch black, how could they risk attempting to tranqualise a very dangerous animal in the dark, not knowing if the tranquiliser had any effect at all, or if it hit the animal correctly. (There's high possibility of it hitting a bone or not entering the blood system correctly, making it useless to my knowledge.)
Don't get me wrong, I had the same reaction as I'm a huge animal lover, but realistically they had to resort to shoot-to-kill.
OT: I don't believe all police officers are corrupt, but it's ignorant to claim that a huge percentage of police officers aren't. I think America has a bigger issue with police brutality rather than the UK though. I've yet to meet a corrupt police officer in my area. Some claim they have, but I think most people treat police officers with lack of respect and bring most of it on themselves. I'm always nice to a police officer and show them respect for what they do, and because of that I've never been arrested or had any problem with them.
I'm not saying that every police officer is an angel, I just think that the majority of the time people can make the situation worse than it needs to be. You see that a lot on police shows such as Night Cops, where people could have walked away and everything would have been fine, but instead they feel the need to be disrespectful and swear at police officers, then they claim police brutality when they're getting cuffed, idiots.
That's my view on it, some police officers are corrupt and don't deserve to be on the force, but people do bring it on themselves by disrespecting police officers.