>>113429564Your suggestions would create a state where police cannot do their own jobs, and would see an absurd spike in crime after some time. Like Europe where they keep trying to ban everything from guns to butter knives.
The police are not there to play fair. They exist to beat the bad people, and they are not super human beings. They do not have inhuman reaction time. Contrary to your comic books, no one can see the world so fast that time stops. Police are not bullet proof either. An officer could trivially be shot dead before they can meet every requirement you just demanded. The police REQUIRE odds be stacked in their favor to do their jobs. The job is safe, currently, precisely because such allowances exist.
Further, "less than lethal" options are a pure meme. They were implemented and mandated. For a while. The police had to stop using them cause they don't work. Getting hit just wrong can kill a civilian, and anyone determined to fight back can fight through such things anyway. There is simply no right way to use them.
That said, police need accountability, but fuck off that 'everywhere' mentality people have when looking at America from the outside. One police station does not control all police stations. Do any of you have any conception how big America is? Or that states and cities are run independently of each other by demand of sheer practicality? The stories of bad cops always come out of the minority of corrupt locations, and their corruption is reflected in how crime ridden their area is. 99% of police forces in America do their job just fine without armchair warriors breathing down their necks about restraint.