I believe in personal accountability. If something happens to me, good or bad, it is the direct result of a decision that I made. While some things might appear to be out of my control, if I look back far enough, I’ll find a point where I made a decision that landed me in the place I currently am. I don’t look for somewhere else to place the blame and I don’t whine about being a victim or that the system is stacked against me. If I’m not happy with my situation, I look for things that I can do to change it. The buck stops here. Period.
In the vast majority of instances where someone was killed or hurt by the police, they were committing a crime, while being arrested, for committing a crime. Let that sink in a bit. They were resisting arrest, which is a crime, while being arrested for a previously-committed crime.
If you’re a criminal and want to immediately reduce your chance of being killed by the police, stop committing crimes. By deciding to do criminal acts, you put yourself a situation that might get you killed. No one else did that. You did. Choosing not to comply with officers or choosing to commit your crimes in the first place, put you directly in harm’s way.
The chance that you’ll be killed by the police during an arrest attempt is already extremely small. But, you can decrease that chance to almost zero by simply deciding not to commit crimes. Or, you can whine about “the system” or you can blame everything on racism. But that is simply denying, and distracting from, the fact that your bad decisions put you where you are today.
Less crime means less interactions with the police. Less interactions with the police means less reasons for a large police force which will ultimately result in reduced funding. Want to “defund the police” and keep yourself from being killed? Behave. It really is that simple.
