I know four police officers. One works a desk job now, one just moved to work a crime free affluent New England town. As for the other two on the street. In th

I know four police officers. One works a desk job now, one just moved to work a crime free affluent New England town. As for the other two on the street. In the last two years, one had a shotgun pointed at his face from three feet away by an angry drunk man carrying two guns and four hundred rounds of ammo. (Nobody ended up hurt.) The other spent a month in the hospital after being shot, two other officers with him were also shot and wounded, and a fourth officer there killed. This isn’t to say that there aren’t officers or even entire departments that are too trigger happy, but that many places in the US fundamentaly require armed officers ready to shoot someone to stay alive. The typical playbook for Suicide by Cop involves involves attempting a deadly attack on a police officer. In a world with perfect police in which police officers only used deadly force when threatened with deadly force, this would still result the attacker being shot. So while there are real problems with policing in America, I don’t see the popularity of suicide by cop being the result of trigger happy police shooting innocent people.