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> With whom are they going to war, exactly? The criminals who are attacking them in neighbourhoods you don't go to.
by microcolonel 10y ago
> With whom are they going to war, exactly?
The criminals who are attacking them in neighbourhoods you don't go to.
- samcheng 10y agoThis particular Sheriff's Department hasn't lost an officer in the line of duty since 1998 (and that's a good thing): https://www.odmp.org/agency/3457-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office-california https://www.odmp.org/agency/3457-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-o... San Mateo county's violent crime rate is 2.1 per 1,000 people, well below the US national average of about 3.7.
- microcolonel 9y ago> This particular Sheriff's Department hasn't lost an officer in the line of duty since 1998 (and that's a good thing): Great, here's to the next two decades of nobody being shot in a county where the neighbourhood with the most violent crime still has housing prices higher than 99.4%(!) of the country. The next time somebody is shooting at them, they might have the armoured vehicle out; you should be happy for that. Armoured vehicles are not a weapon of war, they are a common tool for protecting business and life. Banks use armoured cars , VIPs use armoured cars. If you were responding to a shootout, even if it's the first and last of your career, you would want to arrive in an armoured car.