Dr. Roy Taylor
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145 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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Well...
what reality are you in?
I mean, what do you think the police officer is?
It may be a two-headed dragon or an alien, or it could be your fantasy about the CIA coming to shoot you.
Yes, sir.
So that officer is causing the escalation of the situation by just yelling a command, when in reality what they should say is, hey,
My name's Roy.
What's your name?
What are you going to do with that knife?
Are you going to hurt me with that knife?
And you've got to give them some reflection.
And that's, of course, an ideal situation.
I mean, there's times when you get on scene and get out, and as soon as you get out of the car, they come charging at you with a knife, or they raise a gun that you can't tell if it's a real gun or a toy gun, and you have...
less than two seconds to make a decision, draw your weapon and fire.
Those you can't control, but there are a lot of them where the officers can de-escalate the situation by keeping their distance, by waiting for backup to come, by waiting for, you know,
people like mobile crisis teams to arrive on the scene so that they can help facilitate a peaceful resolution.
So that's what I did my dissertation on when I was earning my PhD, because in November of 2016, I had six cases of a police shooting death from around the country come into my office for me to start working on.
And I thought, wow, I had them before, but they kind of drizzle in.
But now I've got six cases.
So I started doing research and I found out it is a very prolific problem in the United States.
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