A settlement paid by the taxpayers with no impact at all on anyone actually responsible.

Not applicable - As a society we’ve countless times chosen to favour the right of the mother to keep children above the rights of other humans. Most children are killed in the home of the mother (i.e. either by the mother, or where partner choice would have avoided that, while the father was available), or even worde in the Anders Breivik situation (father available with stable job and perspectives in life, but custody refused, child grew up a mass murderer as always).

This case happened in the county I reside in and my sister-in-law is an attorney for the county in CP, although this was not her case directly. I can tell you what led to this: The COVID lockdowns! They stopped doing all the usual home visits and follow ups because everyone was too scared to do their jobs.

This case was a horrifying failure of the entire system that up until that point had fairly decent results for children who end up having to be taken away from their parents and later returned once the Mom/Dad clean up their act.

So you’re okay with trigger happy cops forcing a teenager to the ground because he had a bag of Doritos?

Its not just the US. China runs the same level of surveillance, its being implemented all throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. This is becoming the norm.

Because if the "gun threat" system isn't accurate, then it's a system for false positives and false negatives and it's actually worse than having no such system. Maybe that's what you meant?