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The cop is the perp and the perp is the victim is taken as gospel here.

The problem is that everyone is viewed as a perp, particularly if you are black.

I fail to see how being punched in the face suggests anything other than that the perp is a maladjusted adult.

The game is not over for the perp if a shitty miniature camera buried in the truck's frame catches a few blurry frames of a masked man.

A situation with hostages where the perp has already killed and is unaware that the police has arrived.

A video of a perp walk will drive home to the anonymous cowards that this isn't acceptable.

I wonder if codifying this in law specifically would counteract what happens in reality (DA's operating by creationist logic when the perp is of Blue ethnicity).

Second, it's too symmetrical, basically spreading the blame between both the perp and the victim.

Did you hear the gunshots, or see the perp come out of the building first?

I'd argue that at three feet, the officer is much more likely to be killed by a concealed knife than a concealed gun, assuming that is the perp's intention (and the perp has already been asked to get out of the car).

What I'm saying with this is that yes, I agree with you: The age of the perp should be considered.

Or you have a drone that launches to chase the perp.

Imagine two comparable traffic stops where in one case the "perp" has a concealed knife, and the other has a concealed gun.

If your definition of "works" is "is rewarding for the perp", then sure all sorts of things "work".

We don't have perp walks (though there have been episodes of an attempted "Americanization" of celebrity trials in Germany -- luckily heavily criticized in the parts of the media that didn't engage in it).

Wayne Marshall's perp has "perpd" as the service manager.