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The premise is not wrong. If you believe that the police force attracts certain kinds of unsavory individuals, then remove what makes said unsavories interested
by soganess 6y ago
The premise is not wrong. If you believe that the police force attracts certain kinds of unsavory individuals, then remove what makes said unsavories interested.
If police officers don't need to carry firearms as SOP because they are generally quite safe from gunfire then the individuals who join just to fire a gun (or what have you) will go elsewhere.
- augustt 6y agoI agree, fewer of them should have guns. What I meant is that cops don't seem to genuinely want to take steps so that they "fear for their lives" less often. So it's the wrong approach to think that they wouldn't be so trigger happy if they just had the right protective gear.
- runawaybottle 6y agoI was just listening to some random Eddie Griffin interview about policing that resonated with me. He basically said, like a lot of difficult things in life, you need to rotate in and out of it. The reason so many cops are trigger happy, or fearful, or prejudiced, is because they are overexposed to the job. They need to be on rotation, a few months on the street, a few months back at the desk (something lighter). Right now a lot of them are in messy codebase, fixing showstopper bugs 24/7. They are basically burnt and their perspective is no longer balanced.