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No it actually doesn't. This is anecdotal but... my father in law is a police officer in a city with 1.2 million people and the way he talks you'd think officer
by dopamean 6y ago
No it actually doesn't. This is anecdotal but... my father in law is a police officer in a city with 1.2 million people and the way he talks you'd think officers were dropping like flies. I looked it up and in the last 150 years 20 officers have died while on duty in his police department. Many were traffic accidents. One was a heart attack.
- tw04 6y agoI often (disgustedly) hear "it's a war out there". The only "war" that is equivalent to the current policing in the US is the occupation of the axis post WWII. It's absolutely a war, but it's a war where the natives are being raped and pillaged by the occupying force with no recourse because they already lost. I'd be willing to wager the source of violence in police|public interactions is the public in less than 5% of interactions, probably less than 1%.
- jfengel 6y agoI found it disturbing to discover that my local cemetery has a memorial already up for local officers killed in the line of duty. The only name on it is a police dog. There is a lot of empty space. I'm sure this came from a salesman at a law enforcement expo who has been selling these to every community in the country. It suggests a national narrative where the police are convinced that people are plotting to kill them at every moment, and even if none actually have, it's only a matter of time. Every encounter with police begins with hostility. You know they're armed. You know they're assuming you are, too. I can only imagine how that's magnified for people who "fit the profile" solely because of the color of their skin.
- int_19h 6y agoThe sources of that narrative are very prominent. Here's one. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/05/architect-of-controversial-killology-police-traini/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/05/architect-of-c...
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoThe police have been made good by decades of "good cop" "bad guy" TV dramas. I mean look at Law and Order, or Chicago PD, or Blue Bloods. There's a token episode about police brutality or corruption that is "solved" by the "good apple" standing up to them.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoGood apples get fired, harassed, and stripped of pension for breaking the code of silence.
- CompanionCuuube 6y ago> Police officers getting "almost killed"? Your comment only addresses dead, not almost killed as the comment you are replying to.