I suppose I've never thought about a lifeguard intentionally drowning a panicking swimmer (or preemptively drowning someone who appeared not to be abiding pool

I suppose I've never thought about a lifeguard intentionally drowning a panicking swimmer (or preemptively drowning someone who appeared not to be abiding pool rules) because they wanted to ensure their own or other's safety. Likewise, firefighters are tooled for survival in the environments they're expecting to work. Police share more of their tooling in common with robbers and kidnappers than with lifeguards or firefighters, who we don't regularly see them killing others. If we made regular police white glove, non-lethal social servants and only minimally armed them (or not at all), would this decrease violent escalation? We'd need to treat mental health crises as medical situations and have an armed response division trained in deescalation, but I think the current belief in us vs them and commonplace sanctioning of deadly force are wounds on our society that need to be healed.