[ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

[Keith Henson]

SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually think female police might be more likely to use deadly force due to lower average muscle mass in women.

That's something where there are probable numbers.  But the police
force is some significant fraction female.  I can't think of a case
where a female officer was involved in a non-justified killing, but
there may be some.  There are around 1000 killings by police every
year.  If female cops are 10%, then (if they kill at the same rate)
they should be killing about a hundred a year.  BTW, the rate of
killing by the cops is going down in some places that emphasize
de-escalation in training police.

> And I think nearly anyone would see the plan as intolerably sexist.

That might be the case, but it isn't a new idea.  About 15 years ago,
in  "UpLift", a chapter that goes with "the clinic seed" I wrote:

****

"Kanati mentioned your brother Ricky got in some kind of trouble," Floyd said.

"Oh my God, did he." Marc shook his head. "My fool brother put the
sound of racking a 12 gage pump shotgun on his cell phone as the ring
tone. He was in a Pizza Hut line when the damned phone went off. Guy
in front of him was undercover RCMP who some biker had threatened with
a shotgun earlier that day."

"What happened"? Floyd asked.

"The Mountie tried to pull his gun and turn around. The gun went off,
slug hit the floor and bits of lead and floor chopped up a little
kid's legs. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad. The cops arrested Ricky.
They were asking for bail. Before I could wire the money, the tribal
lawyer got him released. The lawyer talked to the Crown attorney. The
Crown told the RCMP a charge of threatening an officer with a cell
phone ring tone wouldn't fly."

Marc sighed. "At least he wasn't murdered by the cops like Leroy
Shenandoah. My great uncle served in the Green Berets with him and
grandfather was working with him in Philadelphia when that went down.
Wish I could get Ricky to try for a job here, but his girlfriend won't
consider it." Floyd commiserated on the time he had to bail out his
brother and went on, "At least he wouldn't have to worry about nervous
macho cops here."

One of the directors of UpLift held strong opinions about police, so
the entire force was female.

*****

Keith